American Homo: Community and PerversityA sweeping account of the way lesbian, gay, and bisexual people have challenged and changed society In this provocative book, Jeffrey Escoffier tracks LGBT movements across the contested terrain of American political life, where they have endured the historical tension between the homoeroticism coursing through American culture and the virulent periodic outbreaks of homophobic populism. Escoffier explores how every new success enables a new disciplinary and normalizing form of domination; only the active exercise of democratic rights and participation in radical coalitions allows LGBT people to sustain the benefits of community and the freedom of sexual perversity. |
Contents
part one SEXUAL REVOLUTION | 29 |
Toward an Economic History of Gay | 65 |
part two INTELLECTUALS AND CULTURAL POLITICS | 99 |
and Vernacular Knowledge in Lesbian and Gay Studies | 118 |
Intellectuals Identity Politics and the Contest | 142 |
part three FROM IDENTITY POLITICS | 186 |
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