Margaret Mead Made Me Gay - Personal Essays, Public IdeasPaperback
Margaret Mead Made Me Gay - Personal Essays, Public IdeasPaperback Margaret Mead Made Me Gay is the intellectual autobiography of cultural anthropologist Esther Newton, a pioneer in gay and lesbian…
Specifikacia Margaret Mead Made Me Gay - Personal Essays, Public IdeasPaperback
Margaret Mead Made Me Gay - Personal Essays, Public IdeasPaperback
Margaret Mead Made Me Gay is the intellectual autobiography of cultural anthropologist Esther Newton, a pioneer in gay and lesbian studies. It brings together such classics as "The Mythic Mannish Lesbian" and "Dick(less) Tracy and the Homecoming Queen" with entirely new work such as "Theater: Gay Anti-Church."Newton's provocative essays detail a queer academic career while offering a behind-the-scenes view of academic homophobia. Chronicling the development of her ideas from the excitement of early feminism in the 1960s to friendly critiques of queer theory in the 1990s, this collection covers a range of topics such as why we need more precise sexual vocabularies, why there have been fewer women doing drag than men, and how academia can make itself more hospitable to queers.
In four sections that correspond to major periods and interests in her life--"Drag and Camp,"