Keywords:
Homosexuality -- United States
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Homosexuality in motion pictures
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Homosexuality on television
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Symbolism in communication
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Electronic books
Description / Table of Contents:
In many arenas the debate is raging over the nature of sexual orientation. Queer Words, Queer Images addresses this debate, but with a difference, arguing that homosexuality has become an issue precisely because of the way in which we discuss, debate, and communicate about the concept and experience of homosexuality. The debate over homosexuality is fundamentally an issue of communicationas we can see by the recent controversy over gays in the military. This controversy, termed by one gay man as the annoying habit of heterosexual men to overestimate their own attractiveness, has been deba
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (x, 348 Seiten)
ISBN:
9780814769447
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=2081700
DDC:
306.76/6
Language:
English
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART ONE Gay and Lesbian Rhetoric; 1. The Logic of Folly in the Political Campaigns of Harvey Milk; 2. On the Owning of Words: Reflections on San Francisco Arts and Athletics vs. United States Olympic Committee; 3. Die Non: Gay Liberation and the Rhetoric of Pure Tolerance; 4. Reflections on Gay and Lesbian Rhetoric; PART TWO Portrayals of Gay Men and Lesbians in the Media; 5. Guilt by Association: Homosexuality and AIDS on Prime-Time Television
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6. Whose Desire? Lesbian (Non)Sexuality and Television's Perpetuation of Hetero/Sexism7. Old Strategies for New Texts: How American Television Is Creating and Treating Lesbian Characters; 8. What Is Wrong with This Picture? Lesbian Women and Gay Men on Television; PART THREE Portrayals of Gay Men and Lesbians in Language and Text; 9. A Portrait of the Adolescent as a Young Gay: The Politics of Male Homosexuality in Young Adult Fiction; 10. Self as Other: The Politics of Identity in the Works of Edmund White
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11. Female Athlete = Lesbian: A Myth Constructed from Gendex Role Expectations and Lesbiphobia12. The Politics of Self and Other; PART FOUR Interpersonal Communication in Gay and Lesbian Relationships; 13. Self-Disclosure Behaviors of the Stigmatized: Strategies and Outcomes for the Revelation of Sexual Orientation; 14. Gender and Relationship Crises: Contrasting Reasons, Responses, and Relational Orientations; 15. Gay and Lesbian Couple Relationships; 16. Reflections on Interpersonal Communication in Gay and Lesbian Relationships; PART FIVE Coming Out in the Classroom
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17. Performing the (Lesbian) Self: Teacher as Text18. Coming Out to Students: Notes from the College Classroom; 19. Coming Out in the Classroom: Faculty Disclosures of Sexuality; 20. Ways of Coming Out in the Classroom; Contributors; Name Index; Subject Index
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