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Activating theory : lesbian, gay, bisexual politics
- Title
- Activating theory : lesbian, gay, bisexual politics / edited by Joseph Bristow and Angelia R. Wilson.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- London : Lawrence & Wishart, 1993.
- Description
- xi, 266 p. ; 22 cm.
- Other contributors
- Bristow, Joseph. Wilson, Angelia R.
- Notes
- Includes bibliographic references and index.
- Contents
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- Introduction / Joseph Bristow and Angelia R. Wilson
- Should There Be Lesbian and Gay Intellectuals? / Alan Sinfield
- Queer Theory and the War of the Sexes / Mary McIntosh
- Psychoanalysis and Lesbian Desire: The Trouble with Female Homosexuals / Merl Storr
- Death, Desire and Identity: The Political Unconscious of 'New Queer Cinema' / Jose Arroyo
- 'Queer Nigger': Theorizing 'White' Acitivism / Helen (charles)
- Is Transgression Transgressive? / Elizabeth Wilson
- Resituating the Bisexual Body / Clare Hemmings
- Activating Bisexuality: Towards a Bi/Sexual Politics / Jo Eadie
- Which Equality? Toleration, Difference or Respect / Angelia R. Wilson
- An Engaged State: Sexuality, Governance and the Potential for Change / Davina Cooper
- Unholy Alliances: The Recent Politics of Sex Education / Rachel Thomson
- The Politics of Law Reform: Lesbian and Gay Rights Struggles into the 1990s / Didi Herman.
- Summary
- Activating Theory is the first comprehensive volume to represent the diversity of lesbian, gay and bisexual identities and subcultures that have flourished over the past decade. In particular, it gives prominence to the controversial emergence of queer activism, and the birth of a bisexual politics. Is there any common ground between bisexuals and homosexuals? How has ACTUP affected demands for lesbian and gay rights? What's stopping health educators teaching school children about HIV/AIDS? Combining work by academics and activists belonging to a variety of fields - including psychoanalysis, political theory, sex education and AIDS research - this is a wide-ranging and provocative collection that will appeal to many different audiences.
- Kinsey subjects
- Homosexuals civil liberties. Homosexual community. Bisexuality. Homosexuality--Female. Status of homosexuals.
- ISBN
- 0853157901 (pbk.) 9780853157908 (pbk.)