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Queer words, queer images : communication and the construction of homosexuality / edited by R. Jeffrey Ringer.

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In many arenas the debate is raging over the nature of sexual orientation. Queer Words, Queer Imagesaddresses this debate, but with a difference, arguing that homosexuality has become an issue precisely because of the way in which we discuss, debate, and communicate about the concept and experience...

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Online Access: Full Text (via EBSCO)
Other Authors: Ringer, R. Jeffrey (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, [1994]
Subjects:
Homosexuality > United States.
Homosexuality on television.
Homosexuality in motion pictures.
Symbolism in communication.
Homosexuality.
United States.
Table of Contents:
  • The logic of folly in the political campaigns of Harvey Milk / Karen A. Foss
  • On the owning of words: reflections of San Francisco arts and athletics vs. United States Olympic committee / Paul Siegel
  • Die non: gay liberation and the rhetoric of pure tolerance / James Darsey
  • Reflections on gay and lesbian rhetoric / James W. Chesebro
  • Guilt by association: homosexuality and AIDS on prime-time television / Emile C. Netzhammer and Scott A. Shamp
  • Whose desire? Lesbian (non)sexuality and television's perpetuation of hetero/sexism / Darlene M. Hantzis and Valerie Lehr
  • Old strategies for new texts : how American television is creating and treating lesbian characters / Marguerite J. Moritz
  • What is wrong with this picture? Lesbian women and gay men on television / Larry Gross
  • A portrait of the adolescent as a young gay: the politics of male homosexuality in young adult fiction / Kirk Fuoss
  • Self as other: the politics of identity in the works of Edmund White / Nicholas F. Radel
  • Female athlete = lesbian : a myth constructed from gendex [sic] role expectations and lesbiphobia / Karen Peper
  • The politics of self and other / Lynn C. Miller
  • Self-disclosure behaviors of the stigmatized: strategies and outcomes for the revelation of sexual orientation / Timothy Edgar
  • Gender and relationship crises : contrasting reasons, responses, and relational orientations / Julia T. Wood
  • Gay and lesbian couple relationships / Mary Anne Fitzpatrick [and others]
  • Reflections on interpersonal communication in gay and lesbian relationships / Dorothy S. Painter
  • Performing the (lesbian) self : teacher as text / Jacqueline Taylor
  • Coming out to students: notes from the college classroom / Elenie Opffer
  • Coming out in the classroom: faculty disclosures of sexuality / R. Jeffrey Ringer
  • Ways of coming out in the classroom / Mercilee M. Jenkins.

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