Queerly Classed - Softcover

Raffo, Susan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0896085619 ISBN 13: 9780896085619

Publisher: South End Pr, 1997

Synopsis

This collection of thoughtful, courageous, and honest essays explores the intersections of class background, social status, and "queerness," challenging the often narrow and rigid definition of gay and lesbian community. Queerly Classed highlights the voices of those whose experiences of class-combined with race, ethnicity, gender, ability, and age to explode stereotypes of queers aspiring to assimilate into the mainstream of the American middle class.

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Reviews

This excellent collection of essays discusses the issues of class, racism, economics, and the gay/lesbian rights movement. A freelance writer and editor of the The Evergreen Chronicles, Raffo has selected authors to create an approachable, understandable, and critical discussion of class issues from various immigrant, non-English speaking, and ethnic perspectives as well as upper-, lower-, working-, and middle-class points of view. How class shapes each individual's view of sexuality and how being queer parallels the dichotomy of growing up one class and moving into another are among the topics analyzed. While it succeeds in illuminating how queerness and class status affect the lives of gay men, lesbians, and bisexuals as they try to work together politically, this book does much more. Its discussion of the role class plays in our everyday interactions is enlightening, thought-provoking, and important. Inspiring reading for anyone interested in justice in various realms?economic, legal, educational, civil, or sexual?this unique book opens a timely discussion. For all libraries.?Pauline Klein, DeKalb Cty. P.L., Decatur, Ga.
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Edition details

• Publisher: South End Pr
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0896085619
• ISBN 13: 9780896085619
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 268