American University, Washington DC
WGST 350, Fall 2001
Lesbian Gay Cultures: Course reading list [083001]

This bibliography lists accessible citations for the required and recommended reading assignments for WGST 350.
The mixture of classic and contemporary sources provides helpful starting points for  course- and project-related reading and for other purposes. The inventory is far from complete, and your additions to this reference list are welcome at any time:
please send  citations to wlm@american.edu.
 

I. Where we start: Foundations

II. Lesbian and gay cultures: Some examples

A. North American *Berdache/two-spirit

B. The sworn virgins (Balkans)

C. The hijra (India)

III. Frames of reference

A. (Homo)sexuality and Desire

B. Camp, sensibility and style

C. (Homo)sexuality and political economy

D. Heteronormativity and homophobia

E. Performativity and queer transgression

F. "Placing" sexuality: Citizenship, diaspora, and globalization
 

IV. Where this leads: Broader issues emerging from studies of same-sex based

sexual cultures

A. Lesbian and gay languages

B. Sexual subjectivities, sexual practices

C. Interse(x)ions: Race, ethnicity and class

D. Reinventing "marriage," reclaiming "family"

E. (Homo)sexuality, nationalism and (new) nation-building

F. Health, medical care, and barriers to services delivery
 
 
 

I. Where we start: Foundations
 

Blackwood, Evelyn and Saskia E. Wieringa
1999 Sapphic shadows: Challenging the silence in the study of sexuality. in Same Sex Relations and Female Desires. Evelyn Blackwood and Saskia Wieringa, eds. pp. 39-65. New York City: Columbia University Press.

Greenman, Jesseca
1994 More to the Shilts story. in The Columbia Reader on Lesbians and Gay Men in Media, Society and Politics. Larry Gross and James D. Woods, eds. pp. 410-412. . New York City: Columbia University Press.

Herdt, Gilbert
1999 Sexual cultures, strange and familiar. in Sambia Sexual Culture. pp. 1-28. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

James, Christopher
1996 Denying complexity: The dismissal and appropriation of bisexuality in queer, lesbian and gay theory. in Queer Studies. Brett Beemyn and Mickey Eliason, eds. pp. 217-240. New York City: New York University Press.

Lancaster, Roger and Micaela di Leonardo
1996 Gender, sexuality, political economy. New Politics 21: 29-43.

Lewin, Ellen and William Leap
1996 Introduction. in Out in the Field: Reflections of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists. Ellen Lewin and William Leap, eds. pp. 1-30. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.

Leap, William and Ellen Lewin
to appear Introduction. in Out in Theory. Ellen Lewin and William Leap, eds. n.p. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.

Namaste, Ki
1996 "Tragic misreadings": Queer theory's erasure of transgender subjectivity. in Queer Studies. Brett Beemyn and Mickey Eliason, eds. pp. 183-203. New York City: NYU Press

Plummer, Ken
1992 Speaking its name: Inventing a lesbian and gay studies. in Modern Homosexualities: Fragments of Lesbian and Gay Experience. Ken Plummer, ed. pp. 2-27. London: Routledge.

Rubin, Gayle
1975 The traffic in women: Notes on the political economy of sex. in Toward an Anthropology of Women. Reyna Reiter, ed. pp. 157-210. New York City: Monthly Review Press.

1983 Thinking sex: Notes for a radical theory of the politics of sexuality. reprinted in The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader. Henry Abelove, Michele Aina Barale and David M. Halperin, eds. pp. 3-44. New York City: Routledge.

Wieringa, Saskia and Evelyn Blackwood
1999 Introduction in. Same Sex Relations and Female Desires. Evelyn Blackwood and Saskia Wieringa, eds. pp. 1-38.. New York City: Columbia University Press.
 

II. Lesbian and gay cultures: Some examples

II. A. North American *Berdache/two-spirit

Blackwood, Evelyn
1984 Sexuality and gender in certain Native American tribes: The case of cross-gender females. Sign, 10: 27-42.

Devereaux, George
1937 Institutionalized homosexuality among the Mohave Indians. Human Biology 9: 498-597.

Gutierrez, Ramon
1989 Must we deracinate Indians to find gay roots? Outlook, 1 (4): 61-67.

Lang, Sabine
1999 Lesbians, men-women, and two-spirits: Homosexuality and gender in Native American cultures. in. Same Sex Relations and Female Desires. Evelyn Blackwood and Saskia Wieringa, eds. pp. 91-118. New York City: Columbia University Press

Roscoe, Will
1984 How to become a berdache. in Third Sex, Third Gender. Gilbert Herdt, ed. pp.329-372. New York City: Zone Books.

Thomas, Wesley
1997 Navajo cultural constructions of gender and sexuality. in Two Spirit People. Sue-Ellen Jacobs, Wesley Thomas and Sabine Lang, eds. pp. 156-173. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.

Williams, Walter
1987 Persistence and change in the berdache tradition among contemporary Lakota Indians. in The Many Faces of Homosexuality. Evelyn Blackwood, ed. pp. 191-201. New York City: Harrington Park Press.

1987 The abominable sin: The Spanish campaign against sodomy and its results in modern Latin America. reprinted in The Columbia Reader on Lesbians and Gay Men in Media, Society and Politics. Larry Gross and James D. Woods, eds. pp. 125-134. New York City: Columbia University Press.

II.B. The sworn virgins (Balkans)

Dickemann, Mildred
1997 The Balkan sworn virgin: A cross-gendered female role. in Islamic Homosexualities. Stephen O. Murray and Will Roscoe, eds. pp. 197-203. New York City" NYU Press.

Gremaux, Rene
1989 Mannish women of the Balkan mountains: Preliminary notes on the sworn virgins in male disguise, with special reference to their sexuality and gender-identity. in From Sappho to de Sade : Moments in the History of Sexuality. Jan Bremmer, ed. pp. 143-172. London: Routledge.

1994 Woman becomes man in the Balkans. in in Third Sex, Third Gender. Gilbert Herdt, ed. pp.241-283. New York City: Zone Books.
 

II.C. The hijra (India)

Hall, Kira
1997 Go suck your husband's sugarcane: Hijras and the use of gross insult. in Queerly Phrased. Anna Livia and Kira Hall, eds. pp. 430-460. New York City: Oxford University Press.

Nanda, Serena
1987 The Hijras of India: Cultural and individual dimensions of an institutionalized third gender role. in The Many Faces of Homosexuality. Evelyn Blackwood, ed. pp. 35-54. New York City: Harrington Park Press.

1990 Neither Man nor Woman: The Hijras of India. New York City: Wadsworth Press.

1994 Hijras: An alternative sex and gender role in India. in Third Sex, Third Gender. Gilbert Herdt, ed. pp.373-418. New York City: Zone Books.
 

III. Frames of reference

III.A. (Homo)sexuality and Desire

Blackwood, Evelyn
1999 Tombois in West Sumatra: Constructing masculinity and erotic desire. in Same Sex Relations and Female Desires. Evelyn Blackwood and Saskia Wieringa, eds. pp. 181-205. New York City: Columbia University Press

Boswell, John
1990 Concepts, experience and sexuality. in Forms of desire. Edward Stein, ed. pp. 133-173. New York City: Routledge.

Butler, Judith
1990 Prohibition, psychoanalysis and the production of the heterosexual matrix. in Gender Trouble. pp. 35-78. New York City: Routledge.

Foreman, Ann
1977 Marxism and psychoanalysis. reprinted in The Material Queer. Donald Morton, ed. pp. 105-116. Boulder: Westview Press.

Freud, Sigmund
1962 The sexual aberrations. reprinted in The Material Queer. Donald Morton, ed. pp. 77-95. Boulder: Westview Press.

Irigaray, Luce
1985 Questions about the premises of psychoanalytic theory. reprinted in The Material Queer. Donald Morton, ed. pp. 171-173. Boulder: Westview Press.

Lacan. Jacques
1966 The letter in the unconscious. reprinted in The Material Queer. Donald Morton, ed. pp. 127-135. Boulder: Westview Press.

Szasz, Thomas
1970 The product conversion - from heresy to illness. reprinted in The Columbia Reader on Lesbians and Gay Men in Media, Society and Politics. Larry Gross and James Woods, eds. pp. 157-162.

Weeks, Jeffrey
1978 Preface to the 1978 edition. in Homosexual Desire. Guy Hocquenghem. pp. 23-48. Durham: Duke University Press.
 

III.B. Camp, sensibility and style

Babusco, Jack
1993 Camp and the gay sensibility. in Camp Grounds: Style and Homosexuality. David Bergman, ed. pp. 19-38. Amherst: U Massachusetts Press.

Bergman, David
1991 Strategic camp; The art of gay rhetoric. in Gaiety Transfigured. pp. 103-121. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.

Case, Sue-Ellen
1993 Toward a butch-femme aesthetic. in The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader. Henry Abelove, Michele Aina Barale and David M. Halperin, eds. pp. 294-306. New York City: Routledge.

Grosz, Elizabeth
1990 Sexuality and the symbolic order, and, Sexual relations. in Jacques Lacan: A Feminist Introduction. pp. 50-81; 115-146. London: Routledge.

Halberstam, Judith
1998 An introduction to female masculinity: Masculinity without men. in Female Masculinity. pp. 1-44. Durham: Duke University Press.

Koestenbaum, Wayne
1990 The queen's throat: (Homo)sexuality and the art of singing. in Inside/Out Lesbian Theories, Gay Theories. Diana Fuss, ed. pp. 205-234. New York City: Routledge.

Newton. Esther
1974 Role models. in Mother Camp. pp. 97-111. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

1996 Dick(less) Tracey and the homecoming queen: Lesbian power and representation in Gay-male Cherry Grove. in Inventing Lesbian Cultures in America. Ellen Lewin, ed. pp. 161-191. Boston: Beacon Press.

Wieringa, Saskia
1999 Desiring bodies or defiant cultures: Butch-femme lesbians in Jakarta and Lima. in Same Sex Relations and Female Desires. Evelyn Blackwood and Saskia Wieringa, eds. pp.206-229. New York City: Columbia University Press.
 

III. C. (Homo)sexuality and political economy

Badgett, Lee
1996 Choices and chances: Is coming out at work a rationale choice? in Queer Studies. Brett Beemyn and Mickey Eliaison, eds. pp. 298-208. New York City: New York University Press.

1997 Beyond biased samples: Challenging the myths on the economic status of lesbians and gay men. in Homo Economics: Capitalism, Community and Lesbian and Gay life. Amy Gluckman and Betsy Reed, eds. pp. 65-72. London: Routledge.

Bell, David and Jon Binnie
2001 Sexing citizenship. in The Sexual Citizen. pp. 1-34. London: Polity Press

Butler, Judith
1997 Merely cultural. Social Text, 52-53: 265-278.

Cornwall, Richard R.
1997 Queer political economy: The social articulation of desire. in Homo Economics: Capitalism, Community and Lesbian and Gay life. Amy Gluckman and Betsy Reed, eds.pp. 89-122. London: Routledge

D'Emilio, John
1982 Capitalism and gay identity. reprinted in The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader. Henry Abelove, Michele Aina Barale and David M. Halperin, eds. pp. 467-478. New York City: Routledge.

Ebert, Teresa
1997 The matter of materialism. in The Material Queer. Donald Morton, ed. pp, 352-361. Boulder: Westview Press.

Evans, David
1993 [selections]. in Sexual Citizenship: The Material Construction of Sexuality. London: Routledge.

Fraser, Nancy
1997 Heterosexism, misrecognition, and capitalism: A response to Judith Butler. Social Text, 52-53: 279-289.

Hennessy, Rosemary
1995 Queer visibility in commodity culture. in Social Postmodernism. Linda Nicholson and Steve Seidman, eds. pp. 142-185. New York City: Cambridge University Press.

Knopp, Larry
1995 Sexuality and urban space: A framework for analysis. in Mapping Desire. David Bell and Gill Valentine, eds. pp. 149-164. London: Routledge.

McDowell, Linda
1995 Body work: Heterosexual gender performances in city workplaces. in Mapping desire. David Bell and Gill Valentine, eds. pp. 75-98. London: Routledge.
 

III. D. Heteronormativity and homophobia

Anonymous Queers
1990 Queers read this: I hate straights. in The Columbia Reader on Lesbians and Gay Men in Media, Society and Politics. Larry Gross and James D. Woods, eds. pp. 588-594. New York City: Columbia University Press.

Bronski, Michael
1991 Stolen goods. in The Columbia Reader on Lesbians and Gay Men in Media, Society and Politics. Larry Gross and James D. Woods, eds. pp. 245-251. New York City: Columbia University Press

Dector, Midge
1980 The boys on the beach. in The Columbia Reader on Lesbians and Gay Men in Media, Society and Politics. Larry Gross and James D. Woods, eds. pp. 601-611. New York City: Columbia University Press.

Halley, Janet E.
1993 The construction of heterosxuality. in Fear of a Queer Planet. Michael Warner, ed. pp. 82-104. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Katz, Jonathan
1990 The invention of heterosexuality. Socialist review, 20: 7-34.

McIntosh, Mary
1968 The homosexual role. Social Problems, 16 (2): 182-192.

Newton, Esther
1987 To queer for college: Notes on homophobia. in The Columbia Reader on Lesbians and Gay Men in Media, Society and Politics. Larry Gross and James D. Woods, eds. pp. 270-273. New York City: Columbia University Press

Rich, Adrienne
1970 Compulsory heterosexuality and lesbian existence. reprinted in The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader. Henry Abelove, Michele Aina Barale and David M. Halperin, eds. pp.227-254. New York City: Routledge.

Weir, John
1994 In God's country. reprinted in The Columbia Reader on Lesbians and Gay Men in Media, Society and Politics. Larry Gross and James D. Woods, eds. pp.616-623. New York City: Columbia University Press
 

III. E. Performativity and queer transgression

Blackwood, Evelyn
1999 Tombois in West Sumatra. in Same Sex Relations and Female Desires. Evelyn Blackwood and Saskia Wieringa, eds. pp. 181-205. New York City: Columbia University Press.

Butler, Judith
1990 Preface and Subjects of sex/gender/desire. in Gender Trouble. pp. vii-xii, 1-34. New York City: Routledge.

1991 Imitation and gender insubordination. reprinted in The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader. Henry Abelove, Michele Aina Barale and David M. Halperin, eds. pp. 307-320. New York City: Routledge.

Chase, Cheryl
1998 Hermaphrodites with attitude: Mapping the emergence of intersex political activism. GLQ 4: 189-211.

Doty, Alexander
1993 Making Things Perfectly Queer: Interpreting Mass Culture. Minneapolis: U Minnesota Press.

Namaste, Ki
Tragic misreadings: Queer theory's erasure of transgender. in Queer Studies. Brett Beemyn and Mickey Eliason, eds. pp. 183-203. New York City: New York University Press.

Sedgwick, Eve
1990a Epistemology of the closet. reprinted in The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader. Henry Abelove, Michele Aina Barale and David M. Halperin, eds. pp. 45-61. New York City: Routledge.

1990b Introduction; Axiomatics. in The Epistemology of the Closet. pp. 1-65. Berkeley. University of California Press.

1993 How to bring your kids up gay: The war on effeminate boys. in The Columbia Reader on Lesbians and Gay Men in Media, Society and Politics. Larry Gross and James D. Woods, eds. pp. 201-207. New York City: Columbia University Press

Seidman, Steven
1995 Deconstructing queer theory or the under-theorization of the social and the ethical. in Social Postmodernism. Linda Nicholson and Steve Seidman, eds. pp. 116-141. New York City: Cambridge University Pres.

1996 Identity and politics in a "postmodern" gay culture: Some historical and conceptual notes. in Fear of a Queer Planet. Michael Warner, ed. pp. 105-142. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Warner, Michael
1993 Introduction. in Fear of a Queer Planet. Michael Warner, ed. pp. vii-xxxi. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
 

III. F. "Placing" sexuality: Citizenship, diaspora, and globalization

Altman, Dennis
2001 Global Sex. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Beemyn, Brett, ed.
1997 Creating a Place for Ourselves. New York City: Routledge.

Bell, David and Jon Binnie
2001 The Sexual Citizen. London: Polity.

Bell, David and Gill Valentine
1995 Introduction: Orientations. in Mapping Desire. David Bell and Gill Valentine, eds. pp. 1-30. London: Routledge.

Berlant, Lauren and Elizabeth Freeman
1993 Queer nationality. in Fear of a Queer Planet. Michael Warner, ed. pp.193-229. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Elder, Glen
1995 Of moffies, kaffirs and perverts: Male homosexuality and the discourse of moral order in the apartheid state. in Mapping desire. David Bell and Gill Valentine, eds. pp. 56-65. London: Routledge.

Elliston, Deborah
1999 Negotiating transnational sexual economies: Female mahu and same sex sexuality in "Tahiti and her islands." in Same Sex Relations and Female Desires. Evelyn Blackwood and Saskia Wieringa, eds. pp. 230-253. New York City: Columbia University Press

Knopp, Lawrence
1995 Sexuality and urban space: A framework for analysis. in Mapping Desire. David Bell and Gill Valentine, eds. pp. 149-164. London: Routledge.

Leap, William
1999 Introduction. in Public Sex, Gay Space. William Leap, ed. pp. 1-23. New York City: Columbia University Press.

2001 Language, belonging and sexual citizenship in Cape Town, South Africa. in Pleasure in Language. William Leap and Tom Boellstorff, eds. [in press]

n.d. Introduction. Gay City: Sexuality, Place and  the Language of Sites in Washington DC.  Ms under revision for University
of Minnesota Press.

Manalansan, Martin
1995 In the shadow of Stonewall: Examining gay transnational politics and the diasporic dilemma. GLQ 2: 425-438.

Rothenberg, Tamar
1995 "And she told two friends": Lesbians creating urban social space. in Mapping desire. David Bell and Gill Valentine, eds. pp. 165-181. London: Routledge.

Rust, Paula
1996 Sexual identity and bisexual identities: The struggle for self-description in a changing sexual landscape. in Queer Studies. Brett Beemyn and Mickey Eliason, eds. pp. 64-86. New York City: New York University Press.

2001 Make me a map: Bisexual men's images of bisexual community. in Bisexuality in the Lives of Men. Brett Beemyn and Erich Steinman, eds. pp. 47-108. Binghamton: Harrington Park Press.

Valentine, Gill
2000 From nowhere to everywhere: Lesbian geographies. in From Nowhere to Everywhere: Lesbian Geographies. Gill Valentine, ed. pp. 1-10. London: Routledge.

van der Meer, Theo
1999 Private acts, [public space: Defining the boundaries in 19th Century Holland. in Public Sex, Gay Space. William Leap, ed. pp. 223-247. New York City: Columbia University Press
 

IV. Where this leads: Issues emerging from studies of same-sex based sexual cultures

IV.A. Lesbian and gay languages

Fuss, Diana
1990 Luce Irigaray's language of essence. in Essentially Speaking: Feminism, Nature and Difference. pp. 55-72. New York City: Routledge.

Cameron, Deborah
1997 Performing gender identity: Young men's talk and the construction of heterosexual masculinity. in Language and Masculinity. Sally Johnson and Ulrike Hanna Meinhof, eds. pp. 47-64. London: Blackwell's.

Irigaray, Luce
1977 Women's exile: Interview with Luce Irigaray. reprinted in The feminist critique of Language. Deborah Cameron, ed. pp. 80-96. London: Routledge.

Kulick, Don
1999 Transgender and language: A review of the literature and suggestions for the future. GLQ, 5(4): 605-622.

2000 Lesbian and gay languages. Annual Review of Anthropology, 29: 243-285.

Lakoff, Robin
1975 Language and Women's Place. New York City: Harper and Row.

Leap, William
1995 Introduction. in Beyond the Lavender Lexicon. William Leap, ed. pp. vii-xx. Newark: Gordon and Breach.

1996 [selections] Word's Out. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

1999 Language, socialization and silence in gay adolescence. in Reinventing Identities:The Gendered Seld in Discourse. Mary Bucholtz, A.C. Liang and Laurel Sutton, eds. pp. 259-272. New York City: Oxford University Press.

to appear Gay and lesbian languages. in Encyclopedia of Sociolinguistics. Raj Mesthre, ed. n.p. Oxford:  Elsevier. .

Moonwomon, Birch
1987 Toward the study of lesbian speech. reprinted in Queerly Phrased. Anna Livia and Kira Hall, eds. pp. 202-213. New York City: Oxford University Press.

1995 Lesbian discourse, lesbian knowledge. in Beyond the Lavender Lexicon. William Leap, ed. pp.45-64. Newark: Gordon and Breach.

Julia Penelope
1990 Speaking Freely: Unlearning the Lies of the Fathers' Tongues. New York City: Pergamon Press.

Provencher, Denis
2001 Vague French Creole in Pleasure in Language. William Leap and Tom Boellstorff, eds. [in press]

Thadani, Giti
1999 The politics of identities and languages: Lesbian desire in ancient and modern India. in Same Sex Relations and Female Desires. Evelyn Blackwood and Saskia Wieringa, eds. pp. 67-90.. New York City: Columbia University Press.
 

IV. B. Sexual subjectivities, sexual practices

Amadiume, Ifi
1987 Male Daughters, Female Husbands: Gender and Sex in a African Society. Atlantic Highlands: Zed Books.

Beemyn, Brett and Erich Steinman, eds.
2001 Bisexuality in the Lives of Men. Binghamton: Harrrington Park Press.

Bennett, Betty T.
1991    Mary Diana Dods, A Gentleman and a Scholar. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Clarke, Cheryl
1981 Lesbianism: An act of resistance. reprinted in The Columbia Reader on Lesbians and Gay Men in Media, Society and Politics. Larry Gross and James D. Woods, eds. pp. 565-570. New York City: Columbia University Press.

Dyer, Richard
1992 Coming to terms: Gay pornography. reprinted in The Columbia Reader on Lesbians and Gay Men in Media, Society and Politics ... Larry Gross and James D. Woods, eds. pp.479-486. New York City: Columbia University Press.

Frye, Marilyn
1990 Lesbian "sex." in Lesbian Philosophies and Cultures. Jeffner Allen, ed. pp.305-316. Albany: SUNY Press.

Gaudio, Rudolf  P.
1998 Male lesbians and other queer notions in Hausa. in Boy-wives and Female Husbands: Studies of African Homosexualities. Stephen O. Murray and Will Roscoe, eds. pp. 115-128. New York City: St Martins Press.

Gay, Judith
1987 Mummies and babies: Friends and lovers in Lesotho. in The Many Faces of Homosexuality. Evelyn Blackwood, ed. pp. 97-116. New York City: Harrington Park Press.

Herdt Gilbert
1984 Semen transactions in Sambia culture. in Ritualized Homosexuality in Melanesia. Gilbert Herdt, ed. pp. 167-209. Berkeley: University of California Press.

1987 The Sambia: Ritual and gender in New Guinea. (esp. pp. 97-199). New York City: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.

Humphries, Laud
1970 Tearoom trade: Impersonal sex in public places. reprinted in Public Sex/Gay Space. William Leap, ed. pp. 29-54. New York City: Columbia University Press.

Irigaray, Luce
1985 Female Hom(m)osexuality. reprinted in The Material Queer. Donald Morton, ed. pp.174-178.. Boulder: Westview Press.

kendall
1998 "When a woman loves a woman" in Lesotho: Love, sex and the western construction of homophobia. in Boy Wives and female Husbands: Studies of African Homosexualities. Stephen O. Murray and Will Roscoe, eds. pp. 223-242. New York City: St Martins Press.

1999 Women in Lesotho and the (western) construction of homophobia.. in Same Sex Relations and Female Desires. Evelyn Blackwood and Saskia Wieringa, eds. pp. 157-179. New York City: Columbia University Press

Leap. William
1999 Sex in private places: Gender, erotics, and detachment in two urban locales. in Public Sex, Gay Space. William Leap, ed. pp. 115-140. New York City: Columbia University Press.

Pronger, Brian
1990 Jocks and paradox. in The Arena of Masculinity. pp. 125-176. New York City: St Martins Press.

Radical lesbians
1972 The woman-identified woman. reprinted in The Columbia Reader on Lesbians and Gay Men in Media, Society and Politics. Larry Gross and James D. Woods, eds. pp. 562-565. New York City: Columbia University Press.

Richardson, Diane
1992 Constructing lesbian sexualities. in Modern Homosexualities: Fragments of Lesbian and Gay Experience. Ken Plummer, ed. pp. 187-199. London: Routledge.

Tucker, Scott
1990 Gender, fucking and utopia: An essay in response to John Stolenberg's Refusing to Be aMan. reprinted in The Columbia Reader on Lesbians and Gay Men in Media, Society and Politics. Larry Gross and James D. Woods, eds. pp.486-497. New York City: Columbia University Press.

Traub, Valerie
1995 The ambiguities of "lesbian" viewing pleasure. in Out in Culture: Gay, Lesbian ands Queer Essays on Popular Culture. Corey K. Creekmur and Alexander Doty, eds. pp. 115-136. Durham: Duke University Press

Wekker, Gloria
1999 What's identity got to do with it? Rethinking identity in the light of mati work in Suriname. in Same Sex Relations and Female Desires. Evelyn Blackwood and Saskia Wieringa, eds. pp. 119-138. New York City: Columbia University Press.
 

IV. C. Interse(x)ions: Race, ethnicity and class

Alarcon, Norma
1999 Chicana feminism: In the tracks of "the" native woman. in Between Woman and Nation. Caren Kaplan, Norma Alarcon, and Minoo Moallem, eds. pp. 63-72. Durham: Duke University Press.

Amory, Deborah
1998 Mashoga, mabasha and magai: "Homosexuality" on the east coast of Africa. in Boy Wives and female Husbands: Studies of African Homosexualities. Stephen O. Murray and Will Roscoe, eds. pp. 67-90. New York City: St Martins Press.

Anzaldua, Gloria
1987 Borderlands/La Frontera. San Francisco: Auntie Lute Books.

Conerly, Gregory
1996 The politics of Black lesbian, gay and bisexual identity. in Queer Studies. Brett Beemyn and Mickey Eliason, eds. pp. 133-245. New York City: NYU Press.

Constatine-Sims, Delroy, ed.
2000 The Greatest Taboo: Homosexuality in Black Communities. Los Angeles: Alyson Publications.

Eng, David L. and Alice Hom
1997 Over here and over there: Queerness and diaspora in Asian American studies. in Social Text, 52-53: 31-52.

1998 Introduction: Q&A Notes on a Queer Asian America. in Q&A Queer in Asian America. David L. Eng and Alice Y. Hom, eds. pp 1-24. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

Fung, Richard
1988 Looking for my penis: The eroticized Asian in gay video porn. reprinted in The Columbia Reader on Lesbians and Gay Men in Media, Society and Politics. Larry Gross and James D. Woods, eds. pp.517-525. . New York City: Columbia University Press.

Harper, Philip Brian
1991 Eloquence and epitaph: Black nationalism and the homophobic impulse in responses to the death of Max Robinson. reprinted in The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader. Henry Abelove, Michele Aina Barale and David M. Halperin, eds. pp. 159-175. New York City: Routledge.

Hemphill, Essex
1992 If Freud had been a neurotic colored woman: Reading Dr. Frances Cress Welsing. in The Columbia Reader on Lesbians and Gay Men in Media, Society and Politics. Larry Gross and James D. Woods, eds. pp.180-184. . New York City: Columbia University Press

Kennedy, Elizabeth and Madeline Davis
1993 "I could hardly wait to back to that bar": Lesbian bar culture in the 1930's and 1940's. in Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold. pp. 29-66. Baltimore: Penguin.

Krupat Kitty and Patrick McCreery, eds.
2001 Out at Work: Building a Gay-Labor Alliance. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Lee, Jee Yeun
1996 Why Suzie Wong is not a lesbian: Asian and Asian American lesbian and bisexual women and femme/butch/gender identities. in Queer Studies. Brett Beemyn and Mickey Eliason, eds. pp. 115- 133. New York City: NYU Press.

Manalansan, Martin
1994 Searching for community: Gay Filipino men in New York City. in Dimensions of desire. Amerasia Journal, 20: 59-74.

1995 Performing the Filipino gay experience in America: Linguistic strategies in a transnational context. in Beyond the lavender Lexicon. William Leap, ed. pp. 249-266.

Maskovsky, Jeff
2002    [paper in Lewin and Leap, eds. on urban, low income lesbians and gay men]

Moraga, Cherrie
1993 Queer Azatlan: The re-formation of Chicano Tribe. reprinted in The Material Queer. Donald Morton, ed. pp. 297-304. Boulder: Westview Press.

Morgan, Tracy D.
1997 Pages of whiteness: Race, physique magazines and the emergence of public gay culture. in Queer Studies. Brett Beemyn and Mickey Eliason, eds. pp. 280-297. New York City: New York University Press.

Murray, Alison J.
1999 Let them take ecstasy: Class and Lesbians in Jakarta. in Same Sex Relations and Female Desires. Evelyn Blackwood and Saskia Wieringa, eds. pp. 139-156. New York City: Columbia University Press Jakarta lesbians.

Quintanales, Mirtha
1981 I paid very hard for my immigrant ignorance. reprinted in The Columbia Reader on Lesbians and Gay Men in Media, Society and Politics. Larry Gross and James D. Woods, eds. pp.571-574. New York City: Columbia University Press

Smith, Barbara
1993 Blacks and gays: Healing the great divide. reprinted in The Columbia Reader on Lesbians and Gay Men in Media, Society and Politics. Larry Gross and James D. Woods, eds. pp.649-652.. New York City: Columbia University Press.

Thorpe, Rochella
1996 A house where queers go: African American lesbian life in Detroit, 1940-1975. in Inventing Lesbian Cultures in America. Ellen Lewin, ed. pp. 40-61. Boston: Beacon Press.

Tsang, Daniel C.
1994 Notes on Queer 'N Asian virtual sex. reprinted in The Columbia Reader on Lesbians and Gay Men in Media, Society and Politics. Larry Gross and James D. Woods, eds. pp. 531-536. New York City: Columbia University Press.

Zavella, Patricia
1997 "Playing with fire": The gendered construction of Chicana/Mexicana sexuality. in The gender/Sexuality reader. Roger N. Lancaster and Micaela di Leonardo, eds. pp. 392-410. New York City: Routledge.
 

IV.D. Reinventing "marriage," reclaiming "family"

Ettelbrick, Paula L.
1989 Since when is marriage a path to liberation? reprinted in The Columbia Reader on Lesbians and Gay Men in Media, Society and Politics. Larry Gross and James D. Woods, eds. pp.637-640. New York City: Columbia University Press

Lewin , Ellen
1993 [selections] Lesbian Motherhood. Cornell: Cornell University Press.

1996 "Why in the world would you want to do that?" Claiming community in lesbian commitment ceremonies. in Inventing lesbian Cultures in America. Ellen Lewin, ed. pp. 105-130. Boston: Beacon Press.

2001 [new work on gay fatherhood]

Sullivan, Andrew
1989 Here comes the groom: A (conservative) case for gay marriage. reprinted in The Columbia Reader on Lesbians and Gay Men in Media, Society and Politics. Larry Gross and James D. Woods, eds. pp.631-633. New York City: Columbia University Press.

Stoddard, Thomas B.
1989 Why gay people should seek the right to marry. reprinted in The Columbia Reader on Lesbians and Gay Men in Media, Society and Politics. Larry Gross and James D. Woods, eds. pp. 633-636. . New York City: Columbia University Press.

Weston, Kath
1991 [selections] Families We Choose. New York City: Columbia University Press.
 

IV.E. (Homo)sexuality, nationalism and (new) nation-building

Aarmo, Margrete
1999 How homosexuality became "un-African": The case of Zimbabwe. in Same Sex Relations and Female Desires. Evelyn Blackwood and Saskia Wieringa, eds. pp. 255-280. New York City: Columbia University Press.

Boellstorff, Tom
2001 Authentic, of course! in Pleasure in Language. William Leap and Tom Boellstorff, eds. [in press]

Donham, Don
1998 Freeing South Africa: The "modernization" of male-male sexuality in Soweto. Cultural Anthropology, 13: 3-21.

Elder, Glen
1995 Of moffies, kaffirs and perverts: Male homosexuality and the discourse of moral order in the apartheid state. in Mapping desire. David Bell and Gill Valentine, eds. pp. 56-65. London: Routledge.

Epprecht, Mark
1998 "Good almighty, what's this?" Homosexual "crime" in earl colonial Zimbabwe. in Boy Wives and female Husbands: Studies of African Homosexualities. Stephen O. Murray and Will Roscoe, eds. pp. 67-90. New York City: St Martins Press.

Heng, Geraldine and Janadas Devan
1991 State fatherhood: The politics of nationalism, sexuality and race in Singapore. reprinted in The Gender/Sexuality reader. Roger Lancaster and Micaela di Leonardo, eds. pp. 107-121. New York City: Routledge.

Hoad, Neville
1999 Between the white man's burden and the white man's disease: Tracking lesbian and gay human rights in Southern Africa. GLQ 5(4): 559-584.

Mogrovejo, Norma
1999 Sexual preference, the ugly duckling of feminist demands: The lesbian movement in Mexico. in Same Sex Relations and Female Desires. Evelyn Blackwood and Saskia Wieringa, eds. pp. 308-336. New York City: Columbia University Press.

Ton beng hui
1999 Women's sexuality and the discourse on Asian values: Cross-dressing in Malaysia. in Same Sex Relations and Female Desires. Evelyn Blackwood and Saskia Wieringa, eds. pp. 281-307. New York City: Columbia University Press
 

IV.F. Health, medical care, and barriers to services delivery

Cole, Cheryl L.
1996 Containing AIDS: Magic Johnson and Post(Reagan) America. in Queer Theory/Sociology. Steven Seidman, ed. pp. 280-310. London: Blackwells.

Goldstein, Richard
1997 Big science: What ever happened to safer sex? reprinted in The Columbia Reader on Lesbians and Gay Men in Media, Society and Politics. Larry Gross and James D. Woods, eds. pp. 412-415. New York City: Columbia University Press

Hansen, Bert
1999 American physicians' ' discovery' of homosexuals, 1880-1900: A new diagnosis in a changing society. in Sickness & Health in America (3rd ed.). Judith Walzer Leavitt and Ronald L. Numbers, eds. pp. 13-31. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.

Harper, Philip Brian
1993 Eloquence and epitaph: Black nationalism and the homophobic impulse in responses to the death of Max Robinson. reprinted in The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader. Henry Abelove, Michele Aina Barale and David M. Halperin, eds. pp. 159-175. New York City: Routledge.

Meyer, Richard
1990 Rock Hudson's body. in Inside/Out Lesbian Theories Gay Theories. Diana Fuss, ed. pp. 259-288. New York City: Routledge.

Russo, Vito
1990 A test of who we are as a people: ACT UP Rally, Albany NY, May 7, 1988 reprinted in The Columbia Reader on Lesbians and Gay Men in Media, Society and Politics. Larry Gross and James D. Woods, eds. pp.408-410. New York City: Columbia University Press.

Somerville, Siobhan
1996 Scientific racism and the invention of the homosexual body. in Queer Studies. Brett Beemyn and Mickey Eliason, eds. pp. 241-261. New York City: New York University Press.

Stone, Deborah A.
1997 AIDS and the moral economy of insurance. in Homo Economics: Capitalism, Community and Lesbian and Gay life. Amy Gluckman and Betsy Reed, eds. pp. 261-273. London: Routledge.

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