How to be gay / David M. Halperin.
"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 uniqu...
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
2012.
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Table of 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.