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"Esther Newton's work . . . has changed anthropology, feminist studies, and queer studies in remarkable ways. . . . Newton's methodological innovation has less to do with crafting new empirical tools and more to do with a creative and inspired mode of listening and participating in the cultures she studies."--from the Foreword by Judith Halberstam
Sommario
Foreword: The Butch Anthropologist Out in the Field / Judith Halberstam ix
Foreword: On Being Different: An Appreciation / William L. Leap xix
Acknowledgments xxiii
Introduction 1
Part I: Drag and Camp
From the Appendix to
Mother Camp, Field Methods (1972) 11
Role Models (1972) 14
Preface to the Phoenix Edition of
Mother Camp (1979) 30
Theater: Gay Anti-Church—More Notes on Camp (1992/1999) 34
Dick(less) Tracy and the Homecoming Queen: Lesbian Power and Representation in Gay Male Cherry Grove (1996) 63
Part II: Lesbian-Feminism
High School Crack-up (1973) 93
Marginal Woman/Marginal Academic (1973) 103
The Personal is Political: Consciousness Raising and Personal Change in the Women's Liberation Movement (Shirley Walton, 1971) 113
Excerpt from
Womanfriends (with Shirley Walton, 1976) 142
Will the Real Lesbian Community Please Stand Up? (1982/1998) 155
Part III: Butch
The Misunderstanding: Toward a More Precise Sexual Vocabulary (with Shirley Walton
, 1984) 167
The Mythic Mannish Lesbian: Radclyffe Hall and the New Woman(1984) 176
Beyond Freud, Ken, and Barbie (1986) 189
My Butch Career: A Memoir (1996) 195
Part IV: Queer Anthropology
DMS: The Outsider's Insider (1995) 215
Too Queer for College: Notes on Homophobia (1987) 219
An Open Letter to "Manda Cesara" (1980) 225
Of Yams, Grinders, and Gays: The Anthropology of Homosexuality (1988) 229
Lesbian and Gay Issues in Anthropology: Some Remarks to the Chairs of Anthropology Departments (1993) 238
My Best Informant’s Dress: The Erotic Equation in Fieldwork (1992) 243
Notes 259
Bibliography 293
Index 311
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Esther Newton
Riassunto
An autobiography of cultural anthropologist Esther Newton, a pioneer in gay and lesbian studies. Chronicling the development of her ideas from the excitement of early feminism in the 1960s to friendly critiques of queer theory in the 1990s, it is suitable for those interested in the birth and growth of gay and lesbian studies.
