How to be gay / David M. Halperin.

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Halperin, David M, 1952- [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012Description: 1 online resource (viii, 549 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780674067516
0674067517
0674070860
9780674070868

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: How to be gay.DDC classification:

306.76/62 23

LOC classification:

HQ76 .H2795 2012eb

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Contents:

Part 1: B+ Could try harder. Diary of a scandal ; History of an error -- Part 2: American falsettos. Gay identity and its discontents ; Homosexuality's closet ; What's gayer than gay? ; The queen is not dead -- Part 3: Why are the drag queens laughing?. Culture and genre ; The passion of the Crawford ; Suffering in quotation marks ; The beauty and the camp -- Part 4: Mommie queerest. Gay family romance ; Men act, women appear ; The sexual politics of genre ; Tragedy into melodrama -- Part. 5: Bitch baskets. Gay femininity ; Gender and genre ; The meaning of style ; Irony and misogyny -- Part 6: What is gay culture?. Judy Garland versus identity art ; Culture versus subculture ; Queer forever.

Title is part of the collection: Rights, Action, and Social ResponsibilitySummary: "No one raises an eyebrow if you suggest that a guy who arranges his furniture just so, likes techno music or show tunes, and knows all of Bette Davis's best lines by heart might, just possibly, be gay. But if you assert that male homosexuality is a cultural practice, expressive of a unique subjectivity and a distinctive relation to mainstream society, people will protest. This, they will say, is just a stereotype. David Halperin, a pioneer of LGBTQ studies, dares to suggest that gayness is a specific way of being that gay men must learn from one another in order to become who they are. Carrying forward the notorious undergraduate course of the same title that he taught at the University of Michigan, provoking cries of outrage from both the right-wing media and the gay press, Halperin concludes that the genius of gay culture resides in some of its most despised features: its aestheticism, snobbery, melodrama, adoration of glamour, caricatures of women, and obsession with mothers. The insights and unfazed critical intelligence displayed by gay culture, Halperin argues, have much to offer the mainstream."--Provided by publisher

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 459-525) and index.

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"No one raises an eyebrow if you suggest that a guy who arranges his furniture just so, likes techno music or show tunes, and knows all of Bette Davis's best lines by heart might, just possibly, be gay. But if you assert that male homosexuality is a cultural practice, expressive of a unique subjectivity and a distinctive relation to mainstream society, people will protest. This, they will say, is just a stereotype. David Halperin, a pioneer of LGBTQ studies, dares to suggest that gayness is a specific way of being that gay men must learn from one another in order to become who they are. Carrying forward the notorious undergraduate course of the same title that he taught at the University of Michigan, provoking cries of outrage from both the right-wing media and the gay press, Halperin concludes that the genius of gay culture resides in some of its most despised features: its aestheticism, snobbery, melodrama, adoration of glamour, caricatures of women, and obsession with mothers. The insights and unfazed critical intelligence displayed by gay culture, Halperin argues, have much to offer the mainstream."--Provided by publisher

In English.

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