ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|169 pages
Looking – The Sociological Baselines
part One|2 pages
Introduction
chapter 1|9 pages
“The Breastplate of Righteousness”
Tearoom Trade: Impersonal Sex in Public Places (Chicago: Aldine, 1970): chapter 7
chapter 1|13 pages
“The ‘Queens'”
Mother Camp: Female Impersonators in America (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1972): chapter 2
chapter 1|8 pages
“Homosexualities: A Concluding Overview and Epilogue”
Homosexualities: A Study of Diversity Among Men and Women (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1978)
chapter 1|9 pages
“Homosexuality: The Formulation of a Sociological Perspective”
Journal of Health and Social Behaviors (1967): 177–85
chapter 1|7 pages
“The Homosexual Role: A Reconsideration”
The Journal of Sex Research 13: 1 (February 1977): 1–11
chapter 1|16 pages
“Homosexual Categories: Some Research Problems in the Labelling Perspective of Homosexuality”
Kenneth Plummer (ed.), The Making of the Modern Homosexual (London: Hutchinson, 1981): 53–75
chapter 1|34 pages
“Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality”
first published in Carole S. Vance (ed.) Pleasure and Danger: Exploring Female Sexuality (1984); this revised and extended version from H. Abelove, M. Borale and D. Helperin, The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader (New York: Routledge, 1993)
chapter 1|26 pages
“Gay Politics, Ethnic Identity: The Limits of Social Constructionism”
Socialist Review 93/94 (May—August 1987): 9–54
chapter 1|11 pages
“Social Construction Theory: Problems in the History of Sexuality”
A. van Kooten Nierkerk and T. Van Der Meer (eds), Homosexuality, Which Homosexuality? (Amsterdam: An Dekker, 1989): 13–34.
part 2|130 pages
Looking In – Identities and Communities
part Two|2 pages
Introduction
chapter 2|8 pages
“The Development of the Homosexual Bar as an Institution”
John Gagnon and William Simon (eds), Sexual Deviance (New York: Harper & Row, 1967): 228–44
chapter 2|11 pages
“Space and Time”
Identity and Community in the Gay World (New York: Wiley, 1974): chapter 2
chapter 2|13 pages
“Gay Ghetto”
Martin P. Levine (ed.), Gay Men: The Sociology of Male Homosexuality (New York: Harper & Row, 1979): 182–204
chapter 2|8 pages
“The Institutional Elaboration of a Quasi-ethnic Community”
International Review of Modern Sociology 9 (July 1979): 165–77
chapter 2|5 pages
“An Identity Community”
The Mirror Dance (Philadelpia: Temple University Press, 1983): chapter 2
chapter 2|10 pages
“Structural Foundations of the Gay World”
Comparative Studies in Society and History 27: 4 (October 1985): 658–71
chapter 2|15 pages
“The Social Construction of Identity and its Meanings within the Lesbian Subculture”
Identities in the Lesbian World: The Social Construction of Self (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1978): chapter 5
chapter 2|18 pages
“A Model Of Homosexual Identity Formation”
Gay and Lesbian Identity: A Sociological Analysis (New York: General Hall, 1988): chapter 4
chapter 2|22 pages
“Gay and Lesbian Youth, Emergent Identities, and Cultural Scenes at Home and Abroad”
Gilbert Herdt (ed.),
Gay and Lesbian Youth
(New York: Harrington Park Press, 1989): Introduction
part 3|175 pages
Looking Out – Institutions and Social Change
part Three|3 pages
Introduction
chapter 3|6 pages
“The End of the Homosexual?”
Homosexual: Oppression and Liberation (New York: Avon, 1971): Chapter 7
chapter 3|22 pages
“The Meaning of Diversity”
Sexuality and its Discontents (London: Routledge, 1985): chapter 9
chapter 3|15 pages
“Silence, Death, and the Invisible Enemy: AIDS Activism and Social Movement ‘Newness'”
Social Problems 38: 4 (October 1989): 351–67
chapter 3|17 pages
“Collective Identity in Social Movement Communities: Lesbian Feminist Mobilization”
Aldon D. Morris and Carol M. Mueller (eds), Frontiers in Social Movement Theory (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1992): 104–29
chapter 3|11 pages
“Lesbian Involvement in the AIDS Epidemic: Changing Roles and Generational Differences”
Beth Schneider and Nancy Stoller, Women Resisting AIDS: Feminist Strategies of Empowerment (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1995): 270–85
chapter 3|13 pages
“Peril and Promise: Lesbians' Workplace Participation”
Trudi Darty and Sandee Potter (eds), Women-Identified Women (Palo Alto: Mayfield Publishers, 1984): 211–30
chapter 3|22 pages
“Families We Choose”
Families We Choose: Gays, Lesbians, and Kinship (New York: Columbia University Press, 1991): chapter 5
chapter 3|22 pages
“Gay-Bashing: Violence and Aggression Against Gay Men and Lesbians”
from Ronald Baenninger (ed.), Targets of Violence and Aggression (Amsterdam: Elsevier/North Holland, 1991): 349–400
chapter 3|33 pages
“Gay Images and the Social Construction of Acceptability”
from Arresting Images: Impolitic Art and Uncivil Actions (London: Routledge, 1992): Chapter 7
chapter 3|10 pages
“Anatomy of a Panic: State Voyeurism, Gender Politics, and the Cult of Americanism”
Wilbur J. Scott and Sandra Carson Stanley (eds), Gays and Lesbians in the Military: issues, Concerns and Contrasts (New York: Aldine de Gruyter, 1994): 103–18
part 4|128 pages
Looking Ahead – Challenges for Future Research
part Four|2 pages
Introduction
chapter 4|10 pages
“Sexuality, Identity, and the Uses of History”
Rakesh Ratti (ed.), A Lotus of Another Color: An Unfolding of the South Asian Gay and Lesbian Experience (Boston: Alyson, 1993): 113–32
chapter 4|15 pages
“Lesbian and Gay Rights in Europe: Homosexuality and the Law 1 ”
Aart Hendriks, Rob Tielman and Evert van der Veen (eds), The Third Pink Book: A Global View of Lesbian and Gay Liberation and Oppression (Buffalo, NY: Prometheus, 1993): 225–46
chapter 4|15 pages
“The Emergence of a Non-government Response to AIDS”
from Power and Community: Organizational and Cultural Responses to AIDS (London: Taylor & Francis, 1994): chapter 2
chapter 4|6 pages
The Combahee River Collective: “A Black Feminist Statement”
Zillah R. Eisenstein (ed.), Capitalist Patriarchy and the Case for Socialist Feminism (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1979): 362–72
chapter 4|10 pages
“Bridge, Drawbridge, Sandbar or Island: Lesbians-of-Color Hacienda Alianzas”
Lisa Albrecht and Rose M. Brewer (eds), Bridges of Power: Women's Multicultural Alliances (Philadelphia: New Society, 1990): 216–31
chapter 4|16 pages
“Chicano Men: A Cartography of Homosexual Identity and Behavior”
differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 3: 2 (1991): 75–100
chapter 4|11 pages
“Sisters and Queers: The Decentering of Lesbian Feminism”
Socialist Review 20: 1 (January–March 1992): 33–55
chapter 4|16 pages
“A Place in the Rainbow: Theorizing Lesbian and Gay Culture”
Sociological Theory 12: 2 (July 1994): 232 –48
chapter 4|16 pages
“Must Identity Movements Self-destruct? A Queer Dilemma”
Social Problems, 42: 3 (August 1995): 390 –407
chapter |10 pages
Afterword
“The Past, Present, and Futures of the Sociology of Same-sex Relations”
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