Queer Words, Queer Images : : Communication and the Construction of Homosexuality /

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

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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...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource
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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

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