9780814718759

A Queer World: The Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader

City University of New York Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies

ISBN 10: 0814718752 / 0-8147-1875-2
ISBN 13: 9780814718759
Publisher: New York Univ Pr
Publication Date: 1997
Binding: Softcover
Editorial Reviews:
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"'A Queer World' feels pragmatic, useful, real; the best essays combine theoretical aptitude with real-world application. With rare exception, most of the contributors use a writing style that...is cogent, jargon-free, untweedy."

Nation, 11/17/1997

 

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Book Description: New York University Press, United States, 1997. Paperback. Book Condition: New. 254 x 178 mm. Brand New Book with Free Worldwide Delivery. This compedious, cutting-edge volume offers a broad array of the most provocative gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender scholarship produced by the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (CLAGS) over the first decade (1986-1996) of its existence at the CUNY Graduate School.CLAGS has had a profound and legitimizing influence on the establishment of gay and lesbian studies as a discipline. Thousands have attended its events, featuring hundreds of scholars, activists, and cultural workers; many thousands more have lamented how they would have liked to have been there. With this book, they finally, vicariously, can be.Divided into five parts--on identities as they revolve around gender and sexuality; on the terrains of homosexual history; on mind-body relations; on laws and economics; and on policy issues related to gay youth, AIDS, and aging--A Queer World offers a compelling panorama of gay and lesbian life. Featuring the work, among others, of such figures as Yukiko Hanawa, Will Roscoe, Jewelle L. Gomez, Jonathan Ned Katz, Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy, Jeffrey Escoffier, Janice M. Irvine, Kendall Thomas, Gilbert Herdt, Vivien Ng, Douglas Crimp, Walt Odets, Serena Nanda, Cindy Patton, Michael Moon, William Byne, and Randolph Trumback, A Queer World is distinctive in its focus on the social sciences and issues relating to public policy. Consisting largely of previously unpublished essays, this volume--and its companion volume "Queer Representations: Reading Lives, Reading Cultures"--is an invaluable addition to the bookshelf of anyone interested in the study of sexuality. Bookseller Inventory # AAJ9780814718759

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Book Description: New York University Press. Paperback. Book Condition: new. BRAND NEW, A Queer World: The Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader, Martin Bauml Duberman, This compedious, cutting-edge volume offers a broad array of the most provocative gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender scholarship produced by the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (CLAGS) over the first decade (1986-1996) of its existence at the CUNY Graduate School.CLAGS has had a profound and legitimizing influence on the establishment of gay and lesbian studies as a discipline. Thousands have attended its events, featuring hundreds of scholars, activists, and cultural workers; many thousands more have lamented how they would have liked to have been there. With this book, they finally, vicariously, can be.Divided into five parts--on identities as they revolve around gender and sexuality; on the terrains of homosexual history; on mind-body relations; on laws and economics; and on policy issues related to gay youth, AIDS, and aging--A Queer World offers a compelling panorama of gay and lesbian life. Featuring the work, among others, of such figures as Yukiko Hanawa, Will Roscoe, Jewelle L. Gomez, Jonathan Ned Katz, Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy, Jeffrey Escoffier, Janice M. Irvine, Kendall Thomas, Gilbert Herdt, Vivien Ng, Douglas Crimp, Walt Odets, Serena Nanda, Cindy Patton, Michael Moon, William Byne, and Randolph Trumback, A Queer World is distinctive in its focus on the social sciences and issues relating to public policy. Consisting largely of previously unpublished essays, this volume--and its companion volume "Queer Representations: Reading Lives, Reading Cultures"--is an invaluable addition to the bookshelf of anyone interested in the study of sexuality. Bookseller Inventory # B9780814718759

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