Queer Studies

Robert J. Corber is Associate Professor of American Studies and Lesbian and Gay Studies at Trinity College, Hartford. He is author of In the Name of National Security: Hitchcock, Homophobia, and the Political Construction of Gender in Postwar America (1993) and Homosexuality in Cold War America: Resistance and the Crisis of Masculinity (1997).Stephen Valocchi is Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology at Trinity College, Hartford. He has published widely on the welfare state and on social movements in the United States, in particular the gay liberation movement. His essays have appeared in Social Problems, Sociological Perspectives, and Critical Sociology.

"There is much here that is fascinating and adds to our knowledge of the multiplicity of ways in which people experience and live their sexualities." Sexualities"Refusing the easy collapse of queer studies into gay and lesbian studies, Corber and Valocchi offer scholars and activists a collection of essays that maps the complexities of non-normative desires as they are produced in and through social institutions, economic practices, disciplinary structures, and cultural discourse. In the process, they reclaim the political hope that queer studies is a radical intervention into regimes of being and knowing!" Robyn Wiegman, Duke University "Queer Studies may very well be the first Reader that students and professors should consult to get an overview of the field. Interdisciplinary, ambitious, and accessible, the volume is a fine contribution to this dynamic field." Steven Seidman, University at Albany, State University of New York "There is much here that is fascinating and adds to our knowledge of the multiplicity of ways in which people experience and live their sexualities" Richard Dunphy, University of Dundee

• Acknowledgments viiIntroduction 1  Part I Practices, Identities, Communities1 The Trouble with Harry Thaw 21Martha M. Umphrey2 Hermaphrodites with Attitude: Mapping the Emergence of Intersex Political Activism 31Cheryl Chase3 Contested Membership: Black Gay Identities and the Politics of AIDS 46Cathy J. Cohen4 Leatherdyke Boys and Their Daddies: How to Have Sex Without Women or Men 61C. Jacob HalePart II the Cultural Construction of Gender and Sexuality5 The Trials of Alice Mitchell: Sensationalism, Sexology, and the Lesbian Subject in Turn-of-the-Century America 73Lisa Duggan6 The Returns of Cleopatra Jones 88Jennifer DeVere Brody7 (Male) Desire and (Female) Disgust: Reading Hustler 102Laura KipnisPart III Sexual Citizenship and the Nation-State8 Perversity, Contamination, and the Dangers of Queer Domesticity 121Nayan Shah9 The Talk of the County: Revisiting Accusation, Murder, and Mississippi, 1895 142John Howard10 The Brandon Teena Archive 159Judith Halberstam11 Sex in Public 170Lauren Berlant and Michael WarnerPart IV Transnationalizing Sexualities12 Dying to Tell: Sexuality and Suicide in Imperial Japan 187Jennifer Robertson13 Nostalgia, Desire, Diaspora: South Asian Sexualities in Motion 206Gayatri Gopinath14 The Perfect Path: Gay Men, Marriage, Indonesia 218Tom Boellstorff15 A Man in the House: The Boyfriends of Brazilian Travesti Prostitutes 237Don KulickIndex 255