ABSTRACT
Lesbians and gays have gone from "coming out," to "acting up," to "outing," meanwhile radically redefining society's views on sexuality and gender. The essays in Inside/Out employ a variety of approaches (psychoanalysis, deconstruction, semiotics, and discourse theory) to investigate representations of sex and sexual difference in literature, film, video, music, and photography. Engaging the figures of divas, dykes, vampires and queens, the contributors address issues such as AIDS, pornography, pedagogy, authorship, and activism. Inside/Out shifts the focus from sex to sexual orientation, provoking a reconsideration of the concepts of the sexual and the political.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|106 pages
Decking Out: Performing Identities
part II|85 pages
Cutting Up: Specters, Spectators, Authors
part III|86 pages
III Zoning In: Body/Parts
part IV|81 pages
Acting Up: AIDS, Allegory, Activism
part V|31 pages
Speaking Out: Teaching In