The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader

676 Pages·1993·23.762 MB·English

by  Henry Abelove, Michèle Aina Barale, David M. Halperin (eds.)

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CONTENTS Vll
29. "They Wonder to Which Sex I Belong": The Historical Roots ofthe Modern
Lesbian Identity 432
MARTHA VICINUS
30. "Lines She Did Not Dare": Angelina Weld Grimke, Harlem Renaissance
Poet 453
GLORIA T. HULL
31. Capitalism and Gay Identity 467
JOHN D'EMILIO
VI COLLECTIVE IDENTITIES/DISSIDENT IDENTITIES
32. Androgynous Males and Deficient Females: Biology and Gender Boundaries in
Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century China 479
CHARLOTTE FURTH
33. The Bow and the Burden Strap: A New Look at Institutionalized Homosexuality
in Native North America 498
HARRIET WHITEHEAD
34. Just One ofthe Boys: Lesbians in Cherry Grove, 1960-1988 528
ESTHER NEWTON
35. Hijras as Neither Man Nor Woman 542
SERENA NANDA
36. Tearooms and Sympathy, or, The Epistemology ofthe Water Closet 553
LEE EDELMAN
VII BETWEEN THE PAGES
37. Double Consciousness in Sappho's Lyrics 577
JOHNJ. WINKLER
38. De-constructing the Lesbian Body: Cherrie Moraga's Loving in the War
Years 595
YVONNE YARBRO-BEJARANO
39. WhenJack Blinks: Si(gh)ting Gay Desire in Ann Bannon's Beebo Brinker 604
MICHELE AINA BARALE
40. "It's Not Safe. Not Safe at All": Sexuality in Nella Larsen's Passing 616
DEBORAH E. McDOWELL
41. Different Desires: Subjectivity and Transgression in Wilde and Gide 626
JONATHAN DOLLIMORE
42. The Somagrams ofGertrude Stein 642
CATHARINE R. STIMPSON
Suggestions for Further Reading 653
Acknowledgments
Many friends and colleagues have helped us in our work on The Lesbian and Gay
StudiesReader,andweare gratefultothemall. Wehopethatthefollowing list,inevitably
incompletebecauseoftheshortcomingsoftheeditors'collectivememory, includesmost
of them: Janaki Bakhle, Karen Bock, David A. Braaten, George Chauncey, Jr., Jason
Dewees, Carolyn Dinshaw, Ann duCille, Lowell Durham and the staffand fellows of
the University ofUtah Humanities Center, Jeffrey Escoffier, Judith Frank, The Gay/
Lesbian/BisexualAllianceofWesleyanUniversity,WilliamP. Germano,HerbertGreen,
Jr., Anne Ha, Gilbert Herdt, Margaret Hunt, Earl Jackson, Jr., Wayne Koestenbaum,
the Lesbian/Gay Studies Faculty Discussion Group at the University of Utah, Joseph
Litvak, Mel McCombie, Paul Morrison, Alfredo Monferre, Andrew Parker, Gregory M.
Pflugfelder, Joe Powers, Queer Nation/Sdh. Lake City, Lisa B. Rofel, David Roman,
Dean Ronald C. Rosbottom of Amherst College, Ben. Sifuentes Jauregui, Robert
Schwartzwald, NikhilPalSingh, RachelToor, ClarenceWalker,JuliaWillis, andabove
all the authors who have agreed to our gathering and publishing their work here.
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