Lesbian and gay studies an introductory, interdisciplinary approach

Sandfort, Theo, 1953- (Added Author).

Summary: This timely book seeks to demonstrate the coherence of lesbian and gay studies. It introduces the reader to the principal inter-disciplinary approaches in the field and critically assesses their strengths and weaknesses whilst asking: What is lesbian and gay studies? When did it emerge? And what are its achievements and research agenda? The gay and lesbian movement has emerged as a major political and cultural force. It poses a series of far reaching questions about the organization of identity, the operation of power and the limits of tolerance. Lesbian and Gay Studies has emerged as a vital.

Record details

ISBN: 9781849208215 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 1849208212 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0761954171
ISBN: 9780761954170
ISBN: 076195418X (pbk.)
ISBN: 9780761954187 (pbk.)
Physical Description: electronic resource
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1 online resource (xi, 236 pages)
Publisher: London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, 2000.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	The challenge of lesbian and gay studies / Jeffrey Weeks -- Homosexuality, psychology, and gay and lesbian studies / Theo Sandfort -- Mapping the sociological gay : past, presents and futures of a sociology of same sex relations / Ken Plummer -- Hidden from history? Homosexuality and the historical sciences / Judith Schuyf -- Queering anthropology / Gert Hekma -- Homo legalis : lesbian and gay in legal studies / Leslie J. Moran -- The private and the public : gay and lesbian issues in political science / André Krouwel and Jan Willem Duyvendak -- Geographies of sexuality--a review of progress / Jon Binnie and Gill Valentine -- Gay male literary studies / Marco Pustianaz -- Lesbian literary studies / Liana Borghi -- Fashionably queer : lesbian and gay cultural studies / renée c. hoogland -- Crossing borders--a debate on the perspectives of women's studies and gay and lesbian studies / Theo Sandfort and Hansje Galesloot -- Fighting the epidemic : social AIDS studies / Rommel Mendès-Leite and Onno de Zwart -- Conclusion : Gay and lesbian studies at the crossroads / Judith Schuyf and Theo Sandfort.
Restrictions on Access Note:	Restrictions unspecified
Reproduction Note:	Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
System Details Note:	Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
Action Note:	digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.