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Coming on strong : gay politics and culture

Title
Coming on strong : gay politics and culture / edited by Simon Shepherd & Mick Wallis.
Publication
London ; Boston : Unwin Hyman, 1989.

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Additional Authors
  • Shepherd, Simon
  • Wallis, Mick
Description
xi, 306 pages; 22 cm
Summary
This collection of essays addresses itself to anyone, whatever their sexuality, who wants to know why gay men have become one of the most controversial minorities in Britain in the 1980s. The book looks at the relationship of gay men to law, politics and masculinity.
Subject
  • Male homosexuality > Political aspects > Great Britain
  • Gay men > Great Britain > Social conditions > 20th century
  • Gay liberation movement > Great Britain
  • Gay culture > Great Britain
  • Homosexuality > Political aspects > Great Britain
  • Gay people > Great Britain > Social conditions
  • Homosexualité > Aspect politique > Grande-Bretagne
  • Personnes homosexuelles > Grande-Bretagne > Conditions sociales
  • Mouvement de libération des personnes homosexuelles > Grande-Bretagne
  • Homosexualité masculine > Aspect politique > Grande-Bretagne
  • Homosexuels masculins > Grande-Bretagne > Conditions sociales > 20e siècle
  • Culture homosexuelle > Grande-Bretagne
  • Gay liberation movement
  • Gays > Social conditions
  • Homosexuality > Political aspects
  • Homosexualität
  • Aufsatzsammlung
  • Great Britain
  • Großbritannien
  • Male homosexuality
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
  • Psychoanalysis, sexuality and AIDS / Simon Watney -- AIDS and the cultural response : The normal heart and We all fall down / Sue Ellis and Paul Heritage -- Homophobia/misogyny : sexual fears, sexual definitions / Joseph Bristow -- Business as usual : substitution and sex in Prick up your ears and other recent gay-themed movies / Mark Finch -- Freud and his uses : psychoanalysis and gay theory / John Fletcher -- Theories of sexual identity and the masculinization of the gay man / Jamie Gough -- You don't need bars to build a jail : the politics of sexuality in care / Ben Perks -- The contradictory politics of SM / Mike Macnair -- Black, brown and white / Sunil Gupta -- Sexual fix, sexual surveillance : homosexual in law / Les Moran.
  • A conversation about pornography / Richard Dyer -- Gay sex spy orgy : the state's need for queers / Simon Shepherd -- Gays and the press / Terry Sanderson -- Westminster barbarism / Andrew Lumsden -- Gays and Marxism / Bill Marshall -- A conversation about rock, politics and gays / with Tom Robinson -- Gramsci-the-goalie : reflections in the bath on gays, the Labour Party and socialism / Mick Wallis.
ISBN
  • 0044453515
  • 9780044453512
  • 0044453523
  • 9780044453529
  • 0044450311
  • 9780044450313
LCCN
89005756
OCLC
  • ocm19513982
  • 19513982
  • SCSB-1727168
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library