SOCIAL SCIENCE
296 Pages, 5.5 x 8.25
Formats: PDF
PDF, $12.99 (US $12.99) (CA $14.99)
Publication Date: March 2012
ISBN 9780702248016
Rights: WOR
University Of Queensland Press (Mar 2012)
University of Queensland Press
An early work in the gay liberation movement that recognized the divisions within that movement as a form of healthy diversity, this anniversary edition reconsiders homosexuality in light of the current gay rights debate and continues to challenge conventional notions of sex and gender. Drawing on stories from the emergent movement and on the writings of James Baldwin, Allen Ginsberg, Christopher Isherwood, Herbert Marcuse, and Kate Millett, its objective is to propose ways in which to create a common community out of a shared sexuality and experience.
Dennis Altman is a professor of politics and the director of the Institute for Human Security at La Trobe University in Melbourne as well as a former visiting professor of Australian Studies at Harvard. He is the author of 11 books, including AIDS and the New Puritanism, Defying Gravity, and The Homosexualization of America.