How to be gay /
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| Author / Creator: | Halperin, David M., 1952- |
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| Imprint: | Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, c2012. |
| Description: | viii, 549 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8907925 |
Table of Contents:
- Part 1. B+ Could Try Harder
- 1. Diary of a Scandal
- 2. History of an Error
- Part 2. American Falsettos
- 3. Gay Identity and Its Discontents
- 4. Homosexuality's Closet
- 5. What's Gayer Than Gay?
- 6. The Queen Is not Dead
- Part 3. Why are the Drag Queens Laughing?
- 7. Culture and Genre
- 8. The Passion of the Crawford
- 9. Suffering in Quotation Marks
- 10. The Beauty and the Camp
- Part 4. Mommie Queerest
- 11. Gay Family Romance
- 12. Men Act, Women Appear
- 13. The Sexual Politics of Genre
- 14. Tragedy into Melodrama
- Part 5. Bitch Baskets
- 15. Gay Femininity
- 16. Gender and Genre
- 17. The Meaning of Style
- 18. Irony and Misogyny
- Part 6. What Is Gay Culture?
- 19. Judy Garland versus Identity Art
- 20. Culture versus Subculture
- 21. Queer Forever
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index
