Social Perspectives in Lesbian and Gay Studies: A Reader

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Peter M. Nardi, Beth E. Schneider
Psychology Press, 1998 - Social Science - 625 pages

This comprehensive reader brings a social science perspective to an area hitherto dominated by the humanities. Through it, students will be able to follow the story of how sociology has come to engage with gay and lesbian issues from the 1950s to the present, from the earliest research on the underground worlds of gay men to the emergence of queer theory in the 1990s.
Bringing together classic readings and the best work of younger scholars from all parts of the English-speaking world, this reader will be an invaluable resource for courses at undergraduate and graduate level in all areas of the sociology of sexuality and gender. Separate sections cover:
* theoretical foundations
* identity and community making
* institutions and social change
* challenges for the future.
Each section begins with an introduction giving readers a brief guide to the readings in that section, contextualises them and relates them to one another and the book ends with an afterword by Ken Plummer summing up the present state of play and looking forward to the future.

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Contents

Introduction
3
ALBERT J REISS
12
1970
29
1981
84
STEVEN EPSTEIN
134
CAROLE S VANCE
160
Introduction
173
CAROL WARREN
183
Introduction
303
VERTA TAYLOR AND NANCY
349
NANCY E STOLLER
366
1992
434
ADAM
467
LOOKING AHEAD CHALLENGES FOR FUTURE RESEARCH
477
THE COMBAHEE RIVER
479
DENNIS ALTMAN
506

MARTIN P LEVINE
194
SUSAN KRIEGER
215
DANK
230
BARBARA PONSE
246
RICHARD TROIDEN
261
GILBERT HERDT
279
GLORIA ANZALDÚA
527
TOMÁS ALMAGUER
537
JOSHUA GAMSON
589
Kenneth Plummer The Past Present and Futures of the Sociology
605
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