Research Catalog

Title

Margaret Mead made me gay : personal essays, public ideas / Esther Newton ; forewords by Judith Halberstam and William L. Leap.

Author

Newton, Esther

Publication

Durham : Duke University Press, 2000.

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Description

xxiv, 328 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Summary

This book is the intellectual autobiography of cultural anthropologist Esther Newton, a pioneer in gay and lesbian studies. It covers a range of topics such as why we need more precise sexual vocabularies, why there have been fewer women doing drag than men, and how academia can make itself more hospitable to queers.

Series Statement

Series Q

Uniform Title

Series Q

Subject

• Newton, Esther
• Gays > United States
• Lesbians > United States
• Lesbian feminism > United States
• Homophobia in anthropology > United States
• Lesbian anthropologists > United States > Biography
• Anthropologists > United States > Biography

Genre/Form

• Biography
• Biographies
• Biographies.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-309) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword: The Butch Anthropologist Out in the Field / Judith Halberstam -- Foreword: On Being Different: An Appreciation / William L. Leap -- From the Appendix to Mother Camp, Field Methods -- Role Models -- Preface to the Phoenix Edition of Mother Camp -- Theater: Gay Anti-Church -- More Notes on Camp -- Dick(less) Tracy and the Homecoming Queen: Lesbian Power and Representation in Gay Male Cherry Grove -- High School Crack-up -- Marginal Woman/Marginal Academic -- The Personal Is Political: Consciousness Raising and Personal Change in the Women's Liberation Movement / Shirley Walton and Ester Newton -- Excerpt from Womenfriends / Shirley Walton and Ester Newton -- Will the Real Lesbian Community Please Stand Up?

ISBN

• 0822326043 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0822326124 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^00029400^

OCLC

43662150

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library