Lesbian and Gay Studies
An Introductory, Interdisciplinary Approach

First Edition

Edited by:

Theo Sandfort - Columbia University, USA
Judith Schuyf - Dutch National Institute for Victims of War, Utrecht
Jan Willem Duyvendak - University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Holland
Jeffrey Weeks - London South Bank University, UK

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Gay & Lesbian Studies

July 2000 | 256 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd

This timely book seeks to demonstrate the coherence of lesbian and gay studies. It introduces the reader to the principal inter-disciplinary approaches in the field and critically assesses their strengths and weaknesses whilst asking: What is lesbian and gay studies? When did it emerge? And what are its achievements and research agenda? The gay and lesbian movement has emerged as a major political and cultural force. It poses a series of far reaching questions about the organization of identity, the operation of power and the limits of tolerance. Lesbian and Gay Studies has emerged as a vital and enriching field. It offers challenges to more traditional disciplines and requires new forms of thought about the connections between academic work and personal politics.

Jeffrey Weeks

The Challenge of Lesbian and Gay Studies

Theo Sandfort

Homosexuality, Psychology, and Gay and Lesbian Studies

Ken Plummer

Mapping the Sociological Gay

Past, Presents and Futures of a Sociology of Same-Sex Relations

Judith Schuyf

Hidden from History? Homosexuality and the Historical Sciences

Gert Hekma

Queering Anthropology

Leslie J Moran

Homo Legalis

Lesbian and Gay in Legal Studies

Andr[ac]e Krouwel and Jan Willem Duyvendak

The Private and the Public

Gay and Lesbian Issues in Political Science

Jon Binnie and Gill Valentine

Geographies of Sexuality

A Review of Progress

Marco Pustianaz

Gay Male Literary Studies

Liana Borghi

Lesbian Literary Studies

Ren[ac]ee C Hoogland

Fashionably Queer

Lesbian and Gay Cultural Studies

Theo Sandfort and Hansje Galesloot

Crossing Borders

A Debate on the Perspectives of Women's Studies and Gay and Lesbian Studies

Rommel Mend[gr]es-Leite and Onno de Zwart

Fighting the Epidemic

Social AIDS Studies

Judith Schuyf and Theo Sandfort

Conclusion

Gay and Lesbian Studies at a Crossroads

`The collection attempts to summarise research and theory on lesbian and gay isseus in these diverse disciplines and to give the reader a better idea of the scope and possibilities for growth in lesbian and gay studies. To achieve this, each author has written a chapter on lesbian and gay studies from their own disciplinary perspective. This has produced an eclectic mix of papers with a Eurocentric focus...most of the chapters are useful in that they give the reader a sense of how lesbian and gay-related research has been carried out historically within different fields and what the current "state of play" is in each area. The majority of chapters have comprehensive bibliographies and therefore make good "jumping-off points" for interested readers' - Lesbian and Gay Psychology Review

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Theo Sandfort

Theo Sandfort, trained as a social psychologist, was a tenured, Associate Professor at the Department of Clinical Psychology at Utrecht University, the Netherlands, and Director of the Research Program “Diversity, Lifestyles and Health” at the Netherlands Institute of Social Sexological Research (NISSO). Since 2001 he is Associate Professor and Research Scientist at the HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies.... More About Author

Judith Schuyf

Jan Willem Duyvendak

Jeffrey Weeks

Jeffrey Weeks OBE (born 1945, in Rhondda, Wales) is a historian and sociologist specialising in work on sexuality, and is also a gay activist. More About Author

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An Introductory, Interdisciplinary Approach

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