Steven Brint
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780691182667
- eISBN:
- 9780691184890
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691182667.003.0001
- Subject:
- Education, Higher Education
This chapter argues that the traditional structures and purposes of colleges and universities are intended to produce two outcomes: the expansion of knowledge, principally in the disciplines but also ...
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This chapter argues that the traditional structures and purposes of colleges and universities are intended to produce two outcomes: the expansion of knowledge, principally in the disciplines but also at their interstices, and the development of students' cognitive capacities and subject matter knowledge. The chapter shows that these objectives gave rise to two movements. One was the movement to use university research to advance economic development through the invention of new technologies with commercial potential. The other was to use colleges and universities as instruments of social inclusion, providing opportunities to members of previously marginalized groups, including women, racial—ethnic minorities, and members of the LGBTQ community. They were driven both by external parties and the great philanthropic foundations, and by campus constituencies who benefited from their advance.Less
This chapter argues that the traditional structures and purposes of colleges and universities are intended to produce two outcomes: the expansion of knowledge, principally in the disciplines but also at their interstices, and the development of students' cognitive capacities and subject matter knowledge. The chapter shows that these objectives gave rise to two movements. One was the movement to use university research to advance economic development through the invention of new technologies with commercial potential. The other was to use colleges and universities as instruments of social inclusion, providing opportunities to members of previously marginalized groups, including women, racial—ethnic minorities, and members of the LGBTQ community. They were driven both by external parties and the great philanthropic foundations, and by campus constituencies who benefited from their advance.
Mary Robertson
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781479879601
- eISBN:
- 9781479807512
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479879601.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Gender and Sexuality
Growing Up Queer explores what it is like being young and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and/or queer (LGBTQ) in the United States today. Using interviews and ethnographic research conducted at ...
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Growing Up Queer explores what it is like being young and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and/or queer (LGBTQ) in the United States today. Using interviews and ethnographic research conducted at an LGBTQ youth drop-in center, it shows how young people understand their sexual and gender identities, their interest in queer media, and the role that family plays in their lives. The young people who participated in this research are among the first generation to embrace queer identities as kids and teens, and Growing Up Queer shows how both sexual and gender identities are formed through complicated, ambivalent processes, as opposed to the natural characteristics one is born with. In addition to showing how youth understand their identities, Growing Up Queer describes how young people navigate queerness within a culture in which being gay is the “new normal.” Using Sara Ahmed’s concept of queer orientation, it argues that being queer is not just about one’s sexual and/or gender identity but is also understood through intersecting identities including race, class, ability, and more. By showing how society accepts some kinds of LGBTQ-identified people while rejecting others, Growing Up Queer provides evidence of queerness as a site of social inequality. The book moves beyond an oversimplified examination of teenage sexuality and shows, through the voices of young people themselves, the exciting yet complicated terrain of queer adolescence.Less
Growing Up Queer explores what it is like being young and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and/or queer (LGBTQ) in the United States today. Using interviews and ethnographic research conducted at an LGBTQ youth drop-in center, it shows how young people understand their sexual and gender identities, their interest in queer media, and the role that family plays in their lives. The young people who participated in this research are among the first generation to embrace queer identities as kids and teens, and Growing Up Queer shows how both sexual and gender identities are formed through complicated, ambivalent processes, as opposed to the natural characteristics one is born with. In addition to showing how youth understand their identities, Growing Up Queer describes how young people navigate queerness within a culture in which being gay is the “new normal.” Using Sara Ahmed’s concept of queer orientation, it argues that being queer is not just about one’s sexual and/or gender identity but is also understood through intersecting identities including race, class, ability, and more. By showing how society accepts some kinds of LGBTQ-identified people while rejecting others, Growing Up Queer provides evidence of queerness as a site of social inequality. The book moves beyond an oversimplified examination of teenage sexuality and shows, through the voices of young people themselves, the exciting yet complicated terrain of queer adolescence.
Jeremiah J. Garretson
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781479822133
- eISBN:
- 9781479824236
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479822133.001.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, American Politics
Why Tolerance Triumphed is the first accessible, data-driven account of how the LGBTQ movement achieved its most unexpected victory---the liberalization of mass opinion on gay rights. The current ...
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Why Tolerance Triumphed is the first accessible, data-driven account of how the LGBTQ movement achieved its most unexpected victory---the liberalization of mass opinion on gay rights. The current academic understanding of how social movements change mass opinion---through sympathetic media coverage and endorsements from political leaders---cannot provide an adequate explanation for the phenomenal success of the LGBTQ movement at changing the public’s views. The book argues that these factors were not the direct cause of changing attitudes, but contributed indirectly by signalling to other LGBTQ people across the United States that their lives were valued. The net result was a huge increase in the number of LGBTQ people who ‘came out’ and lived their lives openly. Building on recent breakthroughs in social and political psychology, the study introduces the theory of Affective Liberalization. This theory states that meeting and interacting with lesbians and gays in person---or by watching lesbian and gay characters via entertainment media---leads to more durable attitude change by subtly warming peoples’ subconscious reactions to lesbians and gays. Using expansive date-sets and cutting edge social science methods, the book finds that increased exposure to LGBTQ people, triggered by ACT-UP’s activism, provides a singular, compelling and complete explanation for the success of the LGBTQ movement in changing mass opinion.Less
Why Tolerance Triumphed is the first accessible, data-driven account of how the LGBTQ movement achieved its most unexpected victory---the liberalization of mass opinion on gay rights. The current academic understanding of how social movements change mass opinion---through sympathetic media coverage and endorsements from political leaders---cannot provide an adequate explanation for the phenomenal success of the LGBTQ movement at changing the public’s views. The book argues that these factors were not the direct cause of changing attitudes, but contributed indirectly by signalling to other LGBTQ people across the United States that their lives were valued. The net result was a huge increase in the number of LGBTQ people who ‘came out’ and lived their lives openly. Building on recent breakthroughs in social and political psychology, the study introduces the theory of Affective Liberalization. This theory states that meeting and interacting with lesbians and gays in person---or by watching lesbian and gay characters via entertainment media---leads to more durable attitude change by subtly warming peoples’ subconscious reactions to lesbians and gays. Using expansive date-sets and cutting edge social science methods, the book finds that increased exposure to LGBTQ people, triggered by ACT-UP’s activism, provides a singular, compelling and complete explanation for the success of the LGBTQ movement in changing mass opinion.
Katherine McFarland Bruce
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781479803613
- eISBN:
- 9781479817788
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479803613.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Social Movements and Social Change
Pride Parades tells the story of Pride in two parts. In Part I, the author explores how gays and lesbians established the event in the early 1970s as a parade to affirm gay identities. Situating this ...
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Pride Parades tells the story of Pride in two parts. In Part I, the author explores how gays and lesbians established the event in the early 1970s as a parade to affirm gay identities. Situating this story at its beginning in mid-1970, the book outlines the scene where approximately 5,000 gays and lesbians (and surely a handful of straight allies) marched through the streets of Manhattan, West Hollywood, and downtown Chicago in the first ever Pride events. The events were a curious mix of protest march and parade - more festive than a typical angry march but with more contention than a typical parade – and were the largest ever public gatherings of out gays and lesbians in history; moreover, these marches were so successful that immediately afterward participants started planning for the following year, thus heralding the beginning of the colorful tradition of Pride. In Part II, the text leaps to 2010 and examines contemporary Pride parades. Pride today communicates messages about queer sexuality and gender that run counter to the heteronormative code of meaning that privileges heterosexuality as natural and moral.Less
Pride Parades tells the story of Pride in two parts. In Part I, the author explores how gays and lesbians established the event in the early 1970s as a parade to affirm gay identities. Situating this story at its beginning in mid-1970, the book outlines the scene where approximately 5,000 gays and lesbians (and surely a handful of straight allies) marched through the streets of Manhattan, West Hollywood, and downtown Chicago in the first ever Pride events. The events were a curious mix of protest march and parade - more festive than a typical angry march but with more contention than a typical parade – and were the largest ever public gatherings of out gays and lesbians in history; moreover, these marches were so successful that immediately afterward participants started planning for the following year, thus heralding the beginning of the colorful tradition of Pride. In Part II, the text leaps to 2010 and examines contemporary Pride parades. Pride today communicates messages about queer sexuality and gender that run counter to the heteronormative code of meaning that privileges heterosexuality as natural and moral.
Chris Perriam and Darren Waldron
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780748699193
- eISBN:
- 9781474422017
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748699193.001.0001
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
This book advances the current state of film audience research and of our knowledge of sexuality in transnational contexts, by analysing how French LGBTQ films are seen in Spain and Spanish ones in ...
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This book advances the current state of film audience research and of our knowledge of sexuality in transnational contexts, by analysing how French LGBTQ films are seen in Spain and Spanish ones in France, as well as how these films are seen in the UK. It studies films from various genres and examines their reception across four languages (Spanish, French, Catalan, English) and engages with participants across a range of digital and physical audience locations. A focus on LGBTQ festivals and on issues relating to LGBTQ experience in both countries allows for the consideration of issues such as ageing, sense of community and isolation, affiliation and investment, and the representation of issues affecting trans people. The book examines films that chronicle the local, national and sub-national identities while also addressing foreign audiences. It draws on a large sample of individual responses through post-screening questionnaires and focus groups as well as on the work of professional film critics and on-line commentators.Less
This book advances the current state of film audience research and of our knowledge of sexuality in transnational contexts, by analysing how French LGBTQ films are seen in Spain and Spanish ones in France, as well as how these films are seen in the UK. It studies films from various genres and examines their reception across four languages (Spanish, French, Catalan, English) and engages with participants across a range of digital and physical audience locations. A focus on LGBTQ festivals and on issues relating to LGBTQ experience in both countries allows for the consideration of issues such as ageing, sense of community and isolation, affiliation and investment, and the representation of issues affecting trans people. The book examines films that chronicle the local, national and sub-national identities while also addressing foreign audiences. It draws on a large sample of individual responses through post-screening questionnaires and focus groups as well as on the work of professional film critics and on-line commentators.
Zeb Tortorici (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780520288140
- eISBN:
- 9780520963184
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520288140.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Latin American History
This book explorse the history of illicit and alternative sexualities in Latin America’s colonial and early national periods. Together the chapters examine how “the unnatural” came to inscribe ...
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This book explorse the history of illicit and alternative sexualities in Latin America’s colonial and early national periods. Together the chapters examine how “the unnatural” came to inscribe certain sexual acts and desires as criminal and sinful, including acts officially deemed to be “against nature”—sodomy, bestiality, and masturbation—along with others that approximated the unnatural-hermaphroditism, incest, sex with the devil, solicitation in the confessional, erotic religious visions, and the desecration of holy images. In doing so, this anthology makes important and necessary contributions to the historiography of gender and sexuality. Amid the growing politicized interest in broader LGBTQ movements in Latin America, the book also shows how these legal codes endured to make their way into post-independence Latin America.Less
This book explorse the history of illicit and alternative sexualities in Latin America’s colonial and early national periods. Together the chapters examine how “the unnatural” came to inscribe certain sexual acts and desires as criminal and sinful, including acts officially deemed to be “against nature”—sodomy, bestiality, and masturbation—along with others that approximated the unnatural-hermaphroditism, incest, sex with the devil, solicitation in the confessional, erotic religious visions, and the desecration of holy images. In doing so, this anthology makes important and necessary contributions to the historiography of gender and sexuality. Amid the growing politicized interest in broader LGBTQ movements in Latin America, the book also shows how these legal codes endured to make their way into post-independence Latin America.
James Joseph Dean
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814762752
- eISBN:
- 9780814785812
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814762752.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Gender and Sexuality
Since the Stonewall Riots in 1969, the politics of sexual identity in America have drastically transformed. But the changes wrought by a so-called “post-closeted culture” have not just affected the ...
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Since the Stonewall Riots in 1969, the politics of sexual identity in America have drastically transformed. But the changes wrought by a so-called “post-closeted culture” have not just affected the queer community—heterosexuals are also in the midst of a sea change in how their sexuality plays out in everyday life. This book argues that heterosexuals can neither assume the invisibility of gays and lesbians, nor count on the assumption that their own heterosexuality will go unchallenged. The presumption that we are all heterosexual, or that there is such a thing as “compulsory heterosexuality,” the book claims, has vanished. The book explores how straight Americans make sense of their sexual and gendered selves in this new landscape, particularly with an understanding of how race does and does not play a role in these conceptions. It provides a historical understanding of heterosexuality and how it was first established, then moves on to examine the changing nature of masculinity and femininity and, most importantly, the emergence of a new kind of heterosexuality—notably, for men, the metrosexual, and for women, the emergence of a more fluid sexuality. The book also documents the way heterosexuals interact and form relationships with their LGBTQ family members, friends, acquaintances, and co-workers. Although homophobia persists among straight individuals, the book shows that being gay-friendly or against homophobic expressions is also increasingly common among straight Americans.Less
Since the Stonewall Riots in 1969, the politics of sexual identity in America have drastically transformed. But the changes wrought by a so-called “post-closeted culture” have not just affected the queer community—heterosexuals are also in the midst of a sea change in how their sexuality plays out in everyday life. This book argues that heterosexuals can neither assume the invisibility of gays and lesbians, nor count on the assumption that their own heterosexuality will go unchallenged. The presumption that we are all heterosexual, or that there is such a thing as “compulsory heterosexuality,” the book claims, has vanished. The book explores how straight Americans make sense of their sexual and gendered selves in this new landscape, particularly with an understanding of how race does and does not play a role in these conceptions. It provides a historical understanding of heterosexuality and how it was first established, then moves on to examine the changing nature of masculinity and femininity and, most importantly, the emergence of a new kind of heterosexuality—notably, for men, the metrosexual, and for women, the emergence of a more fluid sexuality. The book also documents the way heterosexuals interact and form relationships with their LGBTQ family members, friends, acquaintances, and co-workers. Although homophobia persists among straight individuals, the book shows that being gay-friendly or against homophobic expressions is also increasingly common among straight Americans.
Brett C. Stockdill and Mary Yu Danico (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- November 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780824835262
- eISBN:
- 9780824870645
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824835262.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Cultural Studies
People outside and within colleges and universities often view these institutions as fair and reasonable, far removed from the inequalities that afflict society in general. Despite greater numbers of ...
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People outside and within colleges and universities often view these institutions as fair and reasonable, far removed from the inequalities that afflict society in general. Despite greater numbers of women, working class people, and people of color—as well as increased visibility for LGBTQ students and staff—over the past fifty years, universities remain “ivory towers” that perpetuate institutionalized forms of sexism, classism, racism, and homophobia. This book builds on the rich legacy of historical struggles to open universities to dissenting voices and oppressed groups. Each chapter is guided by a commitment to praxis—the idea that theoretical understandings of inequality must be applied to concrete strategies for change. The common misconception that racism, sexism, and homophobia no longer plague university life heightens the difficulty to dismantle the interlocking forms of oppression that undergird the ivory tower. The book demonstrates that women, LGBTQ people, and people of color continue to face bias and discrimination on campuses throughout the United States. Curriculum and pedagogy, evaluation of scholarship, and the processes of tenure and promotion are all laden with inequities both blatant and covert. The chapters critically examining personal and collective struggles, and they analyze antiracist, feminist, and queer approaches to teaching and mentoring, research and writing, academic culture and practices, growth and development of disciplines, campus activism, university–community partnerships, and confronting privilege. The book offers a proactive approach encompassing institutional and cultural changes that foster respect, inclusion, and transformation.Less
People outside and within colleges and universities often view these institutions as fair and reasonable, far removed from the inequalities that afflict society in general. Despite greater numbers of women, working class people, and people of color—as well as increased visibility for LGBTQ students and staff—over the past fifty years, universities remain “ivory towers” that perpetuate institutionalized forms of sexism, classism, racism, and homophobia. This book builds on the rich legacy of historical struggles to open universities to dissenting voices and oppressed groups. Each chapter is guided by a commitment to praxis—the idea that theoretical understandings of inequality must be applied to concrete strategies for change. The common misconception that racism, sexism, and homophobia no longer plague university life heightens the difficulty to dismantle the interlocking forms of oppression that undergird the ivory tower. The book demonstrates that women, LGBTQ people, and people of color continue to face bias and discrimination on campuses throughout the United States. Curriculum and pedagogy, evaluation of scholarship, and the processes of tenure and promotion are all laden with inequities both blatant and covert. The chapters critically examining personal and collective struggles, and they analyze antiracist, feminist, and queer approaches to teaching and mentoring, research and writing, academic culture and practices, growth and development of disciplines, campus activism, university–community partnerships, and confronting privilege. The book offers a proactive approach encompassing institutional and cultural changes that foster respect, inclusion, and transformation.
Catherine Donovan and Marianne Hester
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- September 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781447307433
- eISBN:
- 9781447311638
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447307433.003.0004
- Subject:
- Sociology, Gender and Sexuality
This chapter considers key findings from the COHSAR UK-wide survey. Over a third of respondents said they had experienced DVA ever in a same sex relationship and more had experienced at least one ...
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This chapter considers key findings from the COHSAR UK-wide survey. Over a third of respondents said they had experienced DVA ever in a same sex relationship and more had experienced at least one form of potentially DVA behaviour from same sex partners. Similarities and differences across the LGBTQ sample are discussed. Similarities included the range of abusive behaviours experienced by, and impacts on, respondents. Differences included men being significantly more likely to experience physically and sexually abusive behaviours, but impact of sexual abuse on women was greater. Risk factors for potential abuse and heightened impact included younger age, lower income levels and lower educational attainment, and were more marked than gender, and the positioning of individuals by intersection of a number of factors helped to explain vulnerability to DVA. Findings suggest that violence and abuse in same sex relationships is characterised by power and control and not by mutual abuse.Less
This chapter considers key findings from the COHSAR UK-wide survey. Over a third of respondents said they had experienced DVA ever in a same sex relationship and more had experienced at least one form of potentially DVA behaviour from same sex partners. Similarities and differences across the LGBTQ sample are discussed. Similarities included the range of abusive behaviours experienced by, and impacts on, respondents. Differences included men being significantly more likely to experience physically and sexually abusive behaviours, but impact of sexual abuse on women was greater. Risk factors for potential abuse and heightened impact included younger age, lower income levels and lower educational attainment, and were more marked than gender, and the positioning of individuals by intersection of a number of factors helped to explain vulnerability to DVA. Findings suggest that violence and abuse in same sex relationships is characterised by power and control and not by mutual abuse.
Jen Gilbert
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816686377
- eISBN:
- 9781452948959
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816686377.001.0001
- Subject:
- Education, Educational Policy and Politics
Sexuality in School: The Limits of Education is a study of the educational breakdowns, conflicts and controversies that emerge as sexuality circulates through the spaces and relations of schooling. I ...
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Sexuality in School: The Limits of Education is a study of the educational breakdowns, conflicts and controversies that emerge as sexuality circulates through the spaces and relations of schooling. I focus specifically on LGBTQ issues and argue that welcoming LGBTQ students, families, teachers and issues into education requires us to rethink our theories of sexuality. Beginning with the contradiction that sexuality poses both a limit and an incitement to education, I turn to psychoanalysis and queer theory to ask: how does sexuality come to bear on teaching and learning? Since sexuality fuels the love, curiosity and aggression that make up our engagements with knowledge, there can be no education without it; and yet education, in its practices, rules and in the relations that comprise schooling, is threatened by the wildness of sexuality. While sexuality pushes education to its limit, education must attempt to limit sexuality. Opening each chapter with a moment of conflict drawn from contemporary public debates on the strange workings of sexuality in schools–from efforts to censor LGBTQ literature from elementary schools to concerns over the bullying of LGBTQ youth to debates about the content of sexuality education–I explore the charged emotional and theoretical terrain underscoring these concerns. Engaging representations from fiction, film, the news, and my own experiences of these conflicts in teacher education, Sexuality in School: The Limits of Education is less interested in settling meaning on an impossible subject than in re-envisioning the grounds for thinking about sexuality and education.Less
Sexuality in School: The Limits of Education is a study of the educational breakdowns, conflicts and controversies that emerge as sexuality circulates through the spaces and relations of schooling. I focus specifically on LGBTQ issues and argue that welcoming LGBTQ students, families, teachers and issues into education requires us to rethink our theories of sexuality. Beginning with the contradiction that sexuality poses both a limit and an incitement to education, I turn to psychoanalysis and queer theory to ask: how does sexuality come to bear on teaching and learning? Since sexuality fuels the love, curiosity and aggression that make up our engagements with knowledge, there can be no education without it; and yet education, in its practices, rules and in the relations that comprise schooling, is threatened by the wildness of sexuality. While sexuality pushes education to its limit, education must attempt to limit sexuality. Opening each chapter with a moment of conflict drawn from contemporary public debates on the strange workings of sexuality in schools–from efforts to censor LGBTQ literature from elementary schools to concerns over the bullying of LGBTQ youth to debates about the content of sexuality education–I explore the charged emotional and theoretical terrain underscoring these concerns. Engaging representations from fiction, film, the news, and my own experiences of these conflicts in teacher education, Sexuality in School: The Limits of Education is less interested in settling meaning on an impossible subject than in re-envisioning the grounds for thinking about sexuality and education.
Jesus Ramirez-Valles
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- August 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780190276348
- eISBN:
- 9780190276379
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190276348.001.0001
- Subject:
- Public Health and Epidemiology, Public Health
The aging of gay men is as revolutionary as the movements for gay liberation and AIDS. With the aging of the Baby Boomer generation, we are witnessing a new phenomenon: gay men entering old age. This ...
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The aging of gay men is as revolutionary as the movements for gay liberation and AIDS. With the aging of the Baby Boomer generation, we are witnessing a new phenomenon: gay men entering old age. This event is transforming our views of old age; the composition of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender communities; and the field of gerontology. Queer Aging addresses the timely question: What is like to be an older gay man? It brings the stories and the voices of a diverse group of men—black, Latino, and white—to uncover the aging experience and examine how race, AIDS, and age together are shaping the lives of these men.Less
The aging of gay men is as revolutionary as the movements for gay liberation and AIDS. With the aging of the Baby Boomer generation, we are witnessing a new phenomenon: gay men entering old age. This event is transforming our views of old age; the composition of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender communities; and the field of gerontology. Queer Aging addresses the timely question: What is like to be an older gay man? It brings the stories and the voices of a diverse group of men—black, Latino, and white—to uncover the aging experience and examine how race, AIDS, and age together are shaping the lives of these men.
Mary Robertson
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781479879601
- eISBN:
- 9781479807512
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479879601.003.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Gender and Sexuality
This chapter introduces the reader to Spectrum—the LGBTQ youth drop-in center that is the focus of this ethnography. Using Sara Ahmed’s concept of queer orientation it argues that this is not a ...
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This chapter introduces the reader to Spectrum—the LGBTQ youth drop-in center that is the focus of this ethnography. Using Sara Ahmed’s concept of queer orientation it argues that this is not a universal story about LGBTQ youth but, rather, one about queer youth specifically. The term “queer” is used both to describe a way of being in the world that opposes normal, as well as to describe sexual conduct and behavior. It argues that the dominant discourse about LGBTQ youth as either at risk or resilient results in an incomplete understanding of what it means to be young and queer. The chapter includes a discussion of the challenges of doing sexualities research with youth and explains the theoretical significance of the sociology of sexualities and queer theory to the analysis. The introduction also addresses the methodological approach used to conduct the research, researcher reflexivity, and specific details about the use of language.Less
This chapter introduces the reader to Spectrum—the LGBTQ youth drop-in center that is the focus of this ethnography. Using Sara Ahmed’s concept of queer orientation it argues that this is not a universal story about LGBTQ youth but, rather, one about queer youth specifically. The term “queer” is used both to describe a way of being in the world that opposes normal, as well as to describe sexual conduct and behavior. It argues that the dominant discourse about LGBTQ youth as either at risk or resilient results in an incomplete understanding of what it means to be young and queer. The chapter includes a discussion of the challenges of doing sexualities research with youth and explains the theoretical significance of the sociology of sexualities and queer theory to the analysis. The introduction also addresses the methodological approach used to conduct the research, researcher reflexivity, and specific details about the use of language.
Mary Robertson
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781479879601
- eISBN:
- 9781479807512
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479879601.003.0002
- Subject:
- Sociology, Gender and Sexuality
This chapter places Spectrum into geographical, social, and political context for the reader. It explains where Spectrum is located, what it looks and feels like, its role in relationship to ...
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This chapter places Spectrum into geographical, social, and political context for the reader. It explains where Spectrum is located, what it looks and feels like, its role in relationship to contemporary LGBTQ youth centers and gay-straight alliances, and describe the differences in the U.S. political climate in which the research was conducted compared to when the book started the publication process. LGBTQ youth activism and spaces are relatively new phenomena that are influencing how young people across the sexual and gender spectrum understand themselves in society. This chapter challenges some of society’s assumptions about risk and resilience among LGBTQ youth and helps the reader to better understand Spectrum as a living, breathing, evolving space. It ends with a discussion of the post-2016 presidential election political climate for LGBTQ issues.Less
This chapter places Spectrum into geographical, social, and political context for the reader. It explains where Spectrum is located, what it looks and feels like, its role in relationship to contemporary LGBTQ youth centers and gay-straight alliances, and describe the differences in the U.S. political climate in which the research was conducted compared to when the book started the publication process. LGBTQ youth activism and spaces are relatively new phenomena that are influencing how young people across the sexual and gender spectrum understand themselves in society. This chapter challenges some of society’s assumptions about risk and resilience among LGBTQ youth and helps the reader to better understand Spectrum as a living, breathing, evolving space. It ends with a discussion of the post-2016 presidential election political climate for LGBTQ issues.
Peter Hart-Brinson
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781479800513
- eISBN:
- 9781479823949
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479800513.003.0003
- Subject:
- Sociology, Gender and Sexuality
This chapter describes how homosexuality in the American imagination changed during the lifetimes of contemporary Americans. It traces the history of political battles over gay rights and the ...
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This chapter describes how homosexuality in the American imagination changed during the lifetimes of contemporary Americans. It traces the history of political battles over gay rights and the evolution of media representations of lesbians and gays from the end of World War II until the legalization of gay marriage in all fifty states. The interactions among lesbian and gay activists, opponents, members of prominent epistemic communities (psychiatrists and journalists), and producers in the culture industries caused the social imagination of homosexuality to shift twice. Americans growing up during different historical periods therefore came of age imagining homosexuality to mean different things.Less
This chapter describes how homosexuality in the American imagination changed during the lifetimes of contemporary Americans. It traces the history of political battles over gay rights and the evolution of media representations of lesbians and gays from the end of World War II until the legalization of gay marriage in all fifty states. The interactions among lesbian and gay activists, opponents, members of prominent epistemic communities (psychiatrists and journalists), and producers in the culture industries caused the social imagination of homosexuality to shift twice. Americans growing up during different historical periods therefore came of age imagining homosexuality to mean different things.
Varda Konstam
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- February 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780190639778
- eISBN:
- 9780190639792
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190639778.001.0001
- Subject:
- Psychology, Developmental Psychology
The romantic lives of emerging adults are often baffling and contradictory: they prize committed and authentic relationships, yet they appear to be reluctant participants, and they prefer to foster ...
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The romantic lives of emerging adults are often baffling and contradictory: they prize committed and authentic relationships, yet they appear to be reluctant participants, and they prefer to foster ambiguity in their romantic relationships, even as they value honesty and clarity. This book grapples with these perplexing questions and considers the challenging economic conditions in which today’s emerging adults find themselves. With an emphasis on the constructs of commitment and sacrifice and their centrality to emerging adults’ readiness for long-term relationships, the main milestones in transitioning from an I identity to a we identity are reviewed. The concepts of choice and risk are discussed and structures such as asymmetrically committed relationships, cohabitation, marriage, and divorce are examined through the lens of risk and risk avoidance. The book probes extensively into the romantic lives of emerging adults—their attitudes, values, and expectations. In doing so, this text examines some of the developmental and contextual realities against which romantic attachment must be viewed. Critical topics such as casual and sexual experiences and relationships, going solo, breakups, the integration of work and love, and social media and its influence are considered. Original qualitative data about the topic is presented. The chapters conclude with a “close-up look” at one or more emerging adults so that their romantic lives are brought to life more vividly. The commonality and the individuality of the emerging adults that are presented throughout this text contribute to a rich understanding of emerging adults and how they live and love.Less
The romantic lives of emerging adults are often baffling and contradictory: they prize committed and authentic relationships, yet they appear to be reluctant participants, and they prefer to foster ambiguity in their romantic relationships, even as they value honesty and clarity. This book grapples with these perplexing questions and considers the challenging economic conditions in which today’s emerging adults find themselves. With an emphasis on the constructs of commitment and sacrifice and their centrality to emerging adults’ readiness for long-term relationships, the main milestones in transitioning from an I identity to a we identity are reviewed. The concepts of choice and risk are discussed and structures such as asymmetrically committed relationships, cohabitation, marriage, and divorce are examined through the lens of risk and risk avoidance. The book probes extensively into the romantic lives of emerging adults—their attitudes, values, and expectations. In doing so, this text examines some of the developmental and contextual realities against which romantic attachment must be viewed. Critical topics such as casual and sexual experiences and relationships, going solo, breakups, the integration of work and love, and social media and its influence are considered. Original qualitative data about the topic is presented. The chapters conclude with a “close-up look” at one or more emerging adults so that their romantic lives are brought to life more vividly. The commonality and the individuality of the emerging adults that are presented throughout this text contribute to a rich understanding of emerging adults and how they live and love.
Clare Croft (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780199377329
- eISBN:
- 9780199377350
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199377329.001.0001
- Subject:
- Music, Dance
Queer Dance argues that dance has a particular charge in the larger field of queer activism and study because it emphasizes and offers language for how public, physical action can be a force of ...
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Queer Dance argues that dance has a particular charge in the larger field of queer activism and study because it emphasizes and offers language for how public, physical action can be a force of social change. It considers how queer dance has political potential and how it could productively challenge more conservative dance forms, both in terms of making meaning and in terms of institutional practices. Queer Dance brings together artists and scholars in a multi-platformed project—book, website, and live performance series—to ask: “What does dancing queerly challenge us toward?” The artists and scholars whose writing appears in the book and whose performances and filmed interviews appear online, stage a wide range of genders and sexualities as a way to challenge and destabilize social norms. Queer dance is a coalitional project, a gathering that works across LGBTQ identities and in concert with feminist, anti-racist, and anti-colonial artmaking, activism, and scholarship. The book engages with dance-making, dance scholarship, queer studies, and a host of other fields, always asking how identities, communities, and artmaking and scholarly practices might consider what queer work the body does and can do. Might the slide of a hand across a hipbone be just as much an act of coming out as an announcement offered in words? How does queerness exist in the realm of affect and touch, and what then might be revealed about queerness through these pleasurable and complex bodily ways of knowing?Less
Queer Dance argues that dance has a particular charge in the larger field of queer activism and study because it emphasizes and offers language for how public, physical action can be a force of social change. It considers how queer dance has political potential and how it could productively challenge more conservative dance forms, both in terms of making meaning and in terms of institutional practices. Queer Dance brings together artists and scholars in a multi-platformed project—book, website, and live performance series—to ask: “What does dancing queerly challenge us toward?” The artists and scholars whose writing appears in the book and whose performances and filmed interviews appear online, stage a wide range of genders and sexualities as a way to challenge and destabilize social norms. Queer dance is a coalitional project, a gathering that works across LGBTQ identities and in concert with feminist, anti-racist, and anti-colonial artmaking, activism, and scholarship. The book engages with dance-making, dance scholarship, queer studies, and a host of other fields, always asking how identities, communities, and artmaking and scholarly practices might consider what queer work the body does and can do. Might the slide of a hand across a hipbone be just as much an act of coming out as an announcement offered in words? How does queerness exist in the realm of affect and touch, and what then might be revealed about queerness through these pleasurable and complex bodily ways of knowing?
Carla A. Pfeffer
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- December 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780199908059
- eISBN:
- 9780190656355
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199908059.001.0001
- Subject:
- Psychology, Social Psychology
A feminist sociologist by training, Carla A. Pfeffer studies women whose boyfriends and husbands have not always been recognized as men in the world. The transgender partners of the women Pfeffer ...
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A feminist sociologist by training, Carla A. Pfeffer studies women whose boyfriends and husbands have not always been recognized as men in the world. The transgender partners of the women Pfeffer interviews often—but not always—take testosterone and/or pursue masculinizing surgeries in order to bring their bodies and others’ views of them into greater alignment with their identities as men. This, however, may present a unique dilemma for their nontransgender (or “cisgender”) women partners, many of whom self-identify as lesbian or as “queer.” The women Pfeffer interviews describe being suddenly perceived as part of an unremarkably heterosexual couple once their transgender partners are recognized by others as men. This may result in social advantages such as inclusion in family gatherings, greater social acceptance by strangers, and the ability to join regulated social institutions. However, these women also describe feeling invisible as they are pushed out of gay and lesbian social spaces and sometimes left unsure of how to describe their own sexual identities and the relationships they have with their transgender partners. In this gripping set of narrative accounts, Pfeffer urges readers to rethink their assumptions about just who and what gets to count as a “real” family in the 21st century. Moreover, she considers what might be learned through closer attention to (and awareness of) various postmodern reconfigurations of embodiment, families, partnerships, and identity that may bring new meanings to contemporary social life not just for the partners of transgender people, but for everyone.Less
A feminist sociologist by training, Carla A. Pfeffer studies women whose boyfriends and husbands have not always been recognized as men in the world. The transgender partners of the women Pfeffer interviews often—but not always—take testosterone and/or pursue masculinizing surgeries in order to bring their bodies and others’ views of them into greater alignment with their identities as men. This, however, may present a unique dilemma for their nontransgender (or “cisgender”) women partners, many of whom self-identify as lesbian or as “queer.” The women Pfeffer interviews describe being suddenly perceived as part of an unremarkably heterosexual couple once their transgender partners are recognized by others as men. This may result in social advantages such as inclusion in family gatherings, greater social acceptance by strangers, and the ability to join regulated social institutions. However, these women also describe feeling invisible as they are pushed out of gay and lesbian social spaces and sometimes left unsure of how to describe their own sexual identities and the relationships they have with their transgender partners. In this gripping set of narrative accounts, Pfeffer urges readers to rethink their assumptions about just who and what gets to count as a “real” family in the 21st century. Moreover, she considers what might be learned through closer attention to (and awareness of) various postmodern reconfigurations of embodiment, families, partnerships, and identity that may bring new meanings to contemporary social life not just for the partners of transgender people, but for everyone.
Brock Perry
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780823277513
- eISBN:
- 9780823280483
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823277513.003.0008
- Subject:
- Sociology, Gender and Sexuality
Many have been left behind by the apparent push into a brighter future of growing civil and religious acceptance for LGBTQ people. Taking note of the rhetoric of recent accounts of the progress for ...
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Many have been left behind by the apparent push into a brighter future of growing civil and religious acceptance for LGBTQ people. Taking note of the rhetoric of recent accounts of the progress for LGBTQ rights in the United States, this essay stages an encounter with a text that documents an early Christian attempt to imagine a better future, The Apocalypse of Peter, through the lens of queer negativity and queer historiography. This reading raises questions not only for the contemporary narrative of progress for LGBTQ people, but also for readers and historians who desire to redeem the meaning of problematic texts in the archives of the history of Christianity or reject them outright. Ultimately, efforts to redeem or reject such artifacts in the name of a better, more inclusive future are in danger—perhaps unavoidably—of reifying the relational dynamics of exclusion that have characterized the marginalization of those marked as queer. The Apocalypse of Peter is haunting evidence of the violence with which a community’s vision of the future can be enacted on those who are made to represent the cause of its un-ending deferral.Less
Many have been left behind by the apparent push into a brighter future of growing civil and religious acceptance for LGBTQ people. Taking note of the rhetoric of recent accounts of the progress for LGBTQ rights in the United States, this essay stages an encounter with a text that documents an early Christian attempt to imagine a better future, The Apocalypse of Peter, through the lens of queer negativity and queer historiography. This reading raises questions not only for the contemporary narrative of progress for LGBTQ people, but also for readers and historians who desire to redeem the meaning of problematic texts in the archives of the history of Christianity or reject them outright. Ultimately, efforts to redeem or reject such artifacts in the name of a better, more inclusive future are in danger—perhaps unavoidably—of reifying the relational dynamics of exclusion that have characterized the marginalization of those marked as queer. The Apocalypse of Peter is haunting evidence of the violence with which a community’s vision of the future can be enacted on those who are made to represent the cause of its un-ending deferral.
Nicola Carr and John Pinkerton
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- September 2015
- ISBN:
- 9781447309673
- eISBN:
- 9781447313526
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447309673.003.0005
- Subject:
- Sociology, Gender and Sexuality
This chapter considers the needs of LGBT young people in care. Relevant literature is examined and discussed with reference to the social ecology of care and concepts of minority stress and ...
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This chapter considers the needs of LGBT young people in care. Relevant literature is examined and discussed with reference to the social ecology of care and concepts of minority stress and resilience. These are explored within the context of Northern Ireland. It is recognised that resources and expertise focused specifically on the needs, rights and expectations of care experienced LGBT young people are required.Less
This chapter considers the needs of LGBT young people in care. Relevant literature is examined and discussed with reference to the social ecology of care and concepts of minority stress and resilience. These are explored within the context of Northern Ireland. It is recognised that resources and expertise focused specifically on the needs, rights and expectations of care experienced LGBT young people are required.
Jeremiah J. Garretson
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781479822133
- eISBN:
- 9781479824236
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479822133.003.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, American Politics
The introductory chapter first outlines the basic puzzle that the book will focus on explaining: Why have mass attitudes involving lesbians and gays changed so radically since the early 1990s when ...
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The introductory chapter first outlines the basic puzzle that the book will focus on explaining: Why have mass attitudes involving lesbians and gays changed so radically since the early 1990s when public opinion research has shown that the public’s views on most issues are generally stable? The contours of attitude change on LGBT rights issues across time are then surveyed. The central theory of the book---Affective Liberalization---is then described. Lastly, the primary distinctive features of the book, including its emphasis on LGBTQ people as a primary mover of social change, is discussed. The chapter ends with a brief summary of the book.Less
The introductory chapter first outlines the basic puzzle that the book will focus on explaining: Why have mass attitudes involving lesbians and gays changed so radically since the early 1990s when public opinion research has shown that the public’s views on most issues are generally stable? The contours of attitude change on LGBT rights issues across time are then surveyed. The central theory of the book---Affective Liberalization---is then described. Lastly, the primary distinctive features of the book, including its emphasis on LGBTQ people as a primary mover of social change, is discussed. The chapter ends with a brief summary of the book.
