How To Be Gay / David M. Halperin.
Halperin, David M., author.
2012
HQ76 .H2795 2012
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Title How To Be Gay / David M. Halperin.
Author Halperin, David M., author.
ISBN 9780674067516
DOI https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674067516
Published Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2012]
Copyright ©2012
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource (560 p.) : 27 halftones
Other Standard Identifiers 10.4159/harvard.9780674067516 doi
Call Number HQ76 .H2795 2012
Dewey Decimal Classification 306.76/62
Summary No one raises an eyebrow if you suggest that a guy who arranges his furniture just so, rolls his eyes in exaggerated disbelief, likes techno music or show tunes, and knows all of Bette Davis's best lines by heart might, just possibly, be gay. But if you assert that male homosexuality is a cultural practice, expressive of a unique subjectivity and a distinctive relation to mainstream society, people will immediately protest. Such an idea, they will say, is just a stereotype-ridiculously simplistic, politically irresponsible, and morally suspect. The world acknowledges gay male culture as a fact but denies it as a truth. David Halperin, a pioneer of LGBTQ studies, dares to suggest that gayness is a specific way of being that gay men must learn from one another in order to become who they are. Inspired by the notorious undergraduate course of the same title that Halperin taught at the University of Michigan, provoking cries of outrage from both the right-wing media and the gay press, How To Be Gay traces gay men's cultural difference to the social meaning of style. Far from being deterred by stereotypes, Halperin concludes that the genius of gay culture resides in some of its most despised features: its aestheticism, snobbery, melodrama, adoration of glamour, caricatures of women, and obsession with mothers. The insights, impertinence, and unfazed critical intelligence displayed by gay culture, Halperin argues, have much to offer the heterosexual mainstream.
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E-BOOK PACKAGE HISTORY; POLITICAL SCIENCE, SOCIOLOGY 2012
E-BOOK PAKET GESCHICHTE, POLITIKWISS., SOZIOLOGIE 2012
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Frontmatter
Contents
PART ONE: B+ Could Try Harder
PART TWO: American Falsettos
PART THREE: Why Are the Drag Queens Laughing?
PART FOUR: Mommie Queerest
PART FIVE: Bitch Baskets
PART SIX: What Is Gay Culture?
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index

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