How to Be Gay.
Title:
How to Be Gay.
Author:
Halperin, David M.
ISBN:
9780674067516
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (560 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Part One: B+ Could Try Harder -- 1. Diary of a Scandal -- 2. History of an Error -- Part Two: American Falsettos -- 3. Gay Identity and Its Discontents -- 4. Homosexuality's Closet -- 5. What's Gayer Than Gay? -- 6. The Queen Is Not Dead -- Part Three: Why Are the Drag Queens Laughing? -- 7. Culture and Genre -- 8. The Passion of the Crawford -- 9. Suffering in Quotation Marks -- 10. The Beauty and the Camp -- Part Four: Mommie Queerest -- 11. Gay Family Romance -- 12. Men Act, Women Appear -- 13. The Sexual Politics of Genre -- 14. Tragedy into Melodrama -- Part Five: Bitch Baskets -- 15. Gay Femininity -- 16. Gender and Genre -- 17. The Meaning of Style -- 18. Irony and Misogyny -- Part Six: What Is Gay Culture? -- 19. Judy Garland versus Identity Art -- 20. Culture versus Subculture -- 21. Queer Forever -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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