Cover; Contents; 1 The Ontological Foundations of Passing; 2 Complicating Reason(s) and Praxis for Coming Out; 4 Cross-Generational Risks of Ascribing and Employing "Queer," "Gay and Lesbian" or even "Straight"; 5 At the Intersection of Racial and Sexual Passing and African-American Celebrity; 6 Margins within the Marginal: Bi-invisibility and Intersexual Passing; 7 Transgender Identity and Passing Authentically; Index
Summary
Shedding light on the meaning of 'passing' and 'outing' in relation to identity, Passing/Out constructs a dialogue between the work of scholars whose intellectual careers began prior to the advent of queer theory and those whose work has been more immediately and directly shaped by this approach, with a view to breaking new ground in the field of identity
