| Description |
1 online resource (xlvi, 219 pages) |
| Contents |
Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1 The Subject and/in Ideology; Chapter 2 Gay Pornography and Nonproductive Expenditure; Chapter 3 ""Anthropology-Unending Search for What Is Utterly Precious"": Race, Class, and Tongues Untied; Chapter 4 ""I Just Wanna Be a Rich Somebody"": Experience, Common Sense, and Paris Is Burning; Chapter 5 Conclusion: On the Uses and Disadvantages of a History of the Other-An Untimely Meditation; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z |
| Summary |
Is celebration of culturally marginalized people by the dominant culture actually benefitting those who are oppressed? Whose stakes are served in such a celebration, and how are existing power relations altered? These are some of the questions John Champagne asks in this original and timely critique, which moves gay studies beyond both identity politics and the ""rights"" discourse within which much of contemporary gay studies is positioned. Champagne argues that in the modern West, culturally marginalized people such as gays cannot define and legitimate their own existence outside the framewor |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Homosexuality -- Philosophy
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Marginality, Social.
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Homosexuality and art.
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Homosexuality and literature.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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PHILOSOPHY -- General.
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Homosexuality and art.
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Homosexuality and literature.
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Homosexuality -- Philosophy.
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Marginality, Social.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780816686216 |
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0816686211 |
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