How to be gay /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
2012.
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Table of Contents:
- Pt. 1. B+ could try harder. Diary of a scandal
- History of an error
- pt. 2. American falsettos. Gay identity and its discontents
- Homosexuality's closet
- What's gayer than gay?
- The queen is not dead
- pt. 3. Why are the drag queens laughing?. Culture and genre
- The passion of the Crawford
- Suffering in quotation marks
- The beauty and the camp
- pt. 4. Mommie queerest. Gay family romance
- Men act, women appear
- The sexual politics of genre
- Tragedy into melodrama
- pt. 5. Bitch baskets. Gay femininity
- Gender and genre
- The meaning of style
- Irony and misogyny
- pt. 6. What is gay culture? Judy Garland versus identity art
- Culture versus subculture
- Queer forever.