Long Slow Burn

Kath Weston is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Arizona State University West. She is the author of Families We Choose: Lesbians, Gays, Kinship (1991) and Render Me, Gender Me: Lesbians Talk Sex, Class, Color,Nation, Studmuffins... (1996).

"...highly readable book...This is an exceptionally good read, even for the academically uninitiated and the theoretically wary." -- Lambda Book Report"Appropriate for advanced undergraduates and graduate-level students, this is recommended for large academic libraries." -- Library Journal"Every sentence of Long Slow Burn burns in effigy the sanitized vision of the social sciences that relegates sexuality to a realm beneath "legitimate" knowledge. The scholarly and polemical essays collected here challenge the histories, theories, and rhetorical modes that regulate disciplinary notions of "tradition"; at the same time, Kath Weston wages compelling arguments against the ahistorical and class-aversive tendencies of contemporary sexuality studies." -- Lauren Berlant, University of Chicago"Wonderfully written, it is a work of consummate grace, critical acuity, persuasive power...it provokes us--profoundly, brilliantly--to think anew about the location of sexuality in the social sciences. And in the world at large." -- John Comaroff, University of Chicago

• Introduction The Bubble, the Burn, and the Simmer; Chapter 1 Get Thee to a Big City; Chapter 2 Forever Is a Long Time; Chapter 3 Made to Order; Chapter 4 Production As Means, Production As Metaphor; Chapter 5 Sexuality, Class, and Conflict in a Lesbian Workplace; Chapter 6 Theory, Theory, Who's Got the Theory?; Chapter 7 Lesbian/Gay Studies in the House of Anthropology; Chapter 8 Requiem for a Street Fighter; Chapter 9 The Virtual Anthropologist;