Bodies of evidence : the practice of queer oral history / edited by Nan Alamilla Boyd and Horacio N. Roque Ramírez.
Boyd, Nan Alamilla, 1963-; Roque Ramírez, Horacio N.
2012
HQ76.3.U5 B63 2012 (Mapit)
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Title
Bodies of evidence : the practice of queer oral history / edited by Nan Alamilla Boyd and Horacio N. Roque Ramírez.
ISBN
9780199742738 pbk. alk. paper
0199742731 pbk. alk. paper
9780199890668 alk. paper
0199890668 alk. paper
Publication Details
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, c2012.
Language
English
Description
xii, 294 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Call Number
HQ76.3.U5 B63 2012
Dewey Decimal Classification
306.76/60973
Summary
"Bodies of Evidence: The Practice of Queer Oral History is the first book to provide serious scholarly insight into the methodological practices that shape lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer oral histories. Each chapter pairs an oral history excerpt with an essay in which the oral historian addresses his or her methods and practices. With an afterword by John D'Emilio, this collection enables readers to examine the role memory, desire, sexuality, and gender play in documenting LGBTQ communities and cultures. The historical themes addressed include 1950s and '60s lesbian bar culture; social life after the Cuban revolution; the organization of transvestite social clubs in the U.S. midwest in the 1960s; Australian gay liberation activism in the 1970s; San Francisco electoral politics and the career of Harvey Milk; Asian American community organizing in pre-AIDS Los Angeles; lesbian feminist 'sex war' cultural politics; 1980s and '90s Latina/o transgender community memory and activism in San Francisco; and the war in Iraq and Afghanistan. The methodological themes include questions of silence, sexual self-disclosure and voyeurism, the intimacy between researcher and narrator, and the social and political commitments negotiated through multiple oral history interviews. The book also examines the production of comparative racial and sexual identities and the relative strengths of same-sexuality, cross-sexuality, and cross-ideology interviewing."--Publisher's description.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Boyd, Nan Alamilla, 1963-
Roque Ramírez, Horacio N.
Series
Oxford oral history series.
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Close encounters : the body and knowledge in queer oral history / Horacio N. Roque Ramírez and Nan Alamilla Boyd
Silence
Sex, "silence", and audiotape : listening for female same-sex desire in Cuba / Carrie Hamilton
Remembering Provincetown : oral history and narrativity at land's end / Karen Krahulik
Queer family stories : learning from oral histories with lesbian mothers and gay fathers from the pre-stonewall era / Daniel Rivers
Spiraling desire : recovering the lesbian embodied self in oral history narrative / Jeff Friedman
Sex
Talking about sex : Cheryl Gonzales and Rikki Streicher tell their stories / Nan Alamilla Boyd
Private lives and public history : on excavating the sexual past in queer oral history practice / Jason Ruiz
Gender, desire, and feminism : a conversation between Dorothy Allison and Carmen Vázquez / Kelly Anderson
Friendship
Friendship, institutions, oral history / Michael David Franklin
Gay teachers and students, oral history and queer kinship / Daniel Marshall
Sharing queer authorities : collaborating for transgender Latina and gay Latino historical meanings / Horacio N. Roque Ramírez
Politics
Conversations with Stella, Los Angeles Daughters of Bilitis Pioneer / Marcia M. Gallo
"You could argue that they control power" : politics and interviewing across sexualities / Martin Meeker
Don't ask : discussing sexuality in the American military and the media / Steve Estes
Thanks for the memories : a narrator asks an oral historian for validation / Eric C. Wat.

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