Queer Words, Queer Images : : Communication and the Construction of Homosexuality / / ed. by Ronald Jeffrey Ringer.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• MitwirkendeR: Chesebro, James W.,; Darsey, James,; Edgar, Timothy,; Fitzpatrick, Mary Anne,; Foss, Karen A.,; Fuoss, Kirk,; Gross, Larry,; Hantzis, Darlene M.,; Jandt, Fred E.,; Jenkins, Mercilee M.,; Lehr, Valerie,; Miller, Lynn C.,; Moritz, Marguerite J.,; Myrick, Fred L.,; Netzhammer, Emile C.,; Opffer, Elenie,; Painter, Dorothy S.,; Peper, Karen,; Radel, Nicholas F.,; Ringer, R. Jeffrey,; Shamp, Scott A.,; Siegel, Paul,; Taylor, Jacqueline,; Wood, Julia T.,
• HerausgeberIn: Ringer, Ronald Jeffrey,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [1994]; ©1994
• Year of Publication: 1994
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

In many arenas the debate is raging over the nature of sexual orientation. Queer Words, Queer Images addresses this debate, but with a difference, arguing that homosexuality has become an issue precisely because of the way in which we discuss, debate, and communicate about the concept and experience of homosexuality. The debate over homosexuality is fundamentally an issue of communication—as we can see by the recent controversy over gays in the military. This controversy, termed by one gay man as the annoying habit of heterosexual men to overestimate their own attractiveness, has been debated in communication-sensitive terms, such as morale and discipline. The twenty chapters address such subjects as gay political language, homosexuality and AIDS on prime-time television, the politics of male homosexuality in young adult fiction, the identification of female athleticism with lesbianism, the politics of identity in the works of Edmund White, and coming out strategies. This is must reading for students of communication practices and theory, and for everyone interested in human sexuality. Contributing to the book are: James Chesebro (Indiana State), James Darsey (Ohio State), Joseph A. Devito (Hunter College, CUNY), Timothy Edgar (Purdue), Mary Anne Fitzpatrick (Wisconsin, Madison), Karen A. Foss (Humboldt State), Kirk Fuoss (St. Lawrence), Larry Gross (Pennsylvania), Darlene Hantzis (Indiana State), Fred E. Jandt (California State, San Bernardino), Mercilee Jenkins (San Francisco State), Valerie Lehr (St. Lawrence), Lynn C. Miller (Texas, Austin), Marguerite Moritz (Colorado, Boulder), Fred L. Myrick (Spring Hill), Emile Netzhammer (Buffalo State), Elenie Opffer, Dorothy S. Painter (Ohio State), Karen Peper (Michigan), Nicholas F. Radel (Furman), R. Jeffrey Ringer (St. Cloud State), Scott Shamp (Georgia), Paul Siegel (Gallaudet), Jacqueline Taylor (Depaul), Julia T. Wood (North Carolina, Chapel Hill).

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART ONE: Gay and Lesbian Rhetoric -- 1. The Logic of Folly in the Political Campaigns of Harvey Milk -- 2. On the Owning of Words: Reflections on San Francisco Arts and Athletics vs. United States Olympic Committee -- 3. Die Non: Gay Liberation and the Rhetoric of Pure Tolerance -- 4. Reflections on Gay and Lesbian Rhetoric -- PART TWO: Portrayals of Gay Men and Lesbians in the Media -- 5. Guilt by Association: Homosexuality and AIDS on Prime-Time Television -- 6. Whose Desire? Lesbian (Non)Sexuality and Television's Perpetuation of Hetero/Sexism -- 7. Old Strategies for New Texts: How American Television Is Creating and Treating Lesbian Characters -- 8. What Is Wrong with This Picture? Lesbian Women and Gay Men on Television -- PART THREE: Portrayals of Gay Men and Lesbians in Language and Text -- 9. A Portrait of the Adolescent as a Young Gay: The Politics of Male Homosexuality in Young Adult Fiction -- 10. Self as Other: The Politics of Identity in the Works of Edmund White -- 11. Female Athlete = Lesbian: A Myth Constructed from Gendex Role Expectations and Lesbiphobia -- 12. The Politics of Self and Other -- PART FOUR: Interpersonal Communication in Gay and Lesbian Relationships -- 13. Self-Disclosure Behaviors of the Stigmatized: Strategies and Outcomes for the Revelation of Sexual Orientation -- 14. Gender and Relationship Crises: Contrasting Reasons, Responses, and Relational Orientations -- 15. Gay and Lesbian Couple Relationships -- 16. Reflections on Interpersonal Communication in Gay and Lesbian Relationships -- PART FIVE: Coming Out in the Classroom -- 17. Performing the (Lesbian) Self: Teacher as Text -- 18. Coming Out to Students: Notes from the College Classroom -- 19. Coming Out in the Classroom: Faculty Disclosures of Sexuality -- 20. Ways of Coming Out in the Classroom -- Contributors -- Name Index -- Subject Index