Out in Public: Reinventing Lesbian/ Gay Anthropology in a Globalizing World - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 1405191015 ISBN 13: 9781405191012

Casa editrice: Blackwell Pub, 2009

Riassunto

Out in Public addresses, and engages us in, the new and exciting directions in the emerging field of lesbian/gay anthropology. The authors offer a deep conversation about the meaning of sexuality, subjectivity and culture.

• Affirms the importance of recognizing gay and lesbian social issues within the arena of public anthropology
• Explores critical concerns of gay activism in a variety of global settings, from the U.S., the European Union, Singapore, Nigeria, India, Nicaragua, and Guadalajara
• Offers a unique focus on the politics of being gay and lesbian - in cross-cultural perspective
• Deals with broad-ranging issues that affect human sexuality and human rights globally
• Winner of the 2009 Ruth Benedict Prize in the category of "Best Anthology"

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Recensione

"Lewin and Leap have done it again. Out in Public is aninnovative collection of essays focusing on anthropology splace in public debates over lesbian/gay lives. This bookdemonstrates the crucial contributions that lesbian/gayanthropology can offer contemporary debates over sexuality andjustice."
Tom Boellstorff, University of California, Irvine

"For the contributors to this fine volume, practicinganthropology in public is not about "problem–solving." Rather, to be out in practice is to use anthropology to protest thedominant gender order."
Richard Handler, University of Virginia

"Lewin and Leap have collected many intriguing insights aboutthe neoliberal global order, real–world problems, and non–normativesexualities and genders.  Those looking for sharp analyses ofcontemporary sexual politics will find Out inPublic to be indispensable.  It is atimely and fascinating read that demonstrates, once again, thecentrality of lesbian/gay studies in anthropology to the field atlarge and to the wider academy."
Jeff Maskovsky, Queen s College, CityUniversity of New York

"Insightful, rich portraits of Gay/Lesbian communities as theycome Out in Public in Nicaragua, Thailand, Mexico, Nigeria, Europe,Singapore and the U.S. Anthropologists engage in contemporarydebates such as gay marriage, gay fatherhood, LGBT rights, andHIV/AIDS prevention. Critical, sensitive, and compellingreading."
Louise Lamphere, University of New Mexico

L'autore

Ellen Lewin is Professor of Women’s Studies andAnthropology at the University of Iowa. She is the author ofLesbian Mothers: Accounts of Gender in American Culture(Cornell University Press, 1993) and Recognizing Ourselves:Lesbian and Gay Ceremonies of Commitment (Columbia UniversityPress, 1998), and the editor of Inventing Lesbian Cultures inAmerica (Beacon Press, 1996) and of Feminist Anthropology: AReader (Blackwell, 2006). With William L. Leap, she hasco-edited two volumes of essays on lesbian and gay anthropology,Out in the Field: Reflections of Lesbian and GayAnthropologists (University of Illinois Press, 1996) and Outin Theory: The Emergence of Lesbian and Gay Anthropology(University of Illinois Press, 2002).

William Leap is Professor of Anthropology at AmericanUniversity. He is the author of Word’s Out: GayMen’s English (University of Minnesota Press, 1996), andeditor of Public Sex, Gay Space (Columbia University Press,1999) and co-editor of Speaking in Queer Tongues: Globalizationand Gay Language (University of Illinois Press, 2004). WithEllen Lewin, he has co-edited Out in the Field and Out inTheory.

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• Editore: Blackwell Pub
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1405191015
• ISBN 13: 9781405191012
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 365
• Redattore: Lewin Ellen, Leap William L.