The Lesbian and gay studies reader

I. Politics and representation.

Thinking sex: notes for a radical theory of the politics of sexuality / Gayle S. Rubin

Epistemology of the closet / Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

Deviance, politics and the media / Stuart Hall

Some reflections on separatism and power / Marilyn Frye

Homophobia: why bring it up? / Barbara Smith

One is not born a woman / Monique Wittig

Silences: "Hispanics," AIDS, and sexual practices / Ana Maria Alonso and Maria Teresa Koreck

From nation to family: containing African AIDS / Cindy Patton

II. Specular logic.

Sexual indifference and lesbian representation / Teresa de Lauretis

Eloquence and epitaph: Black nationalism and the homophobic impulse in responses to the death of Max Robinson / Phillip Brian Harper

Television/feminism: Heartbeat and prime time lesbianism / Sasha Torres

Commodity lesbianism / Danae Clark

The spectacle of AIDS / Simon Watney

Sontag's urbanity / D.A. Miller

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water... / Daniel L. Selden.

III. Subjectivity, discipline, resistance.

Compulsory heterosexuality and lesbian existence / Adrienne Rich

Chicano men: a cartography of homosexual identity and behavior / Tomas Almaguer

Lesbian identity and autobiographical differences / Biddy Martin

Toward a butch-femme aesthetic / Sue-Ellen Case

Imitation and gender insubordination / Judith Butler

Spare parts: the surgical construction of gender / Marjorie Garber

IV. "The uses of the erotic".

The uses of the erotic: the erotic as power / Audre Lorde

The boys in my bedroom / Douglas Crimp

Looking for trouble / Kobena Mercer

Robert Mapplethorpe and the discipline of photography / Richard Meyer

Freud, male homosexuality and the Americans / Henry Abelove

V. "The evidence of experience".

The evidence of experience / Joan W. Scott

Is there a history of sexuality? / David M. Halperin

"They wonder to which sex I belong": the historical roots of the modern lesbian identity / Martha Vicinus

"Lines she did not dare": Angelina Weld Grimké, Harlem Renaissance poet / Gloria T. Hull

Capitalism and gay identity / John D'Emilio

VI. Collective identities/dissident identities.

Androgynous males and deficient females: biology and gender boundaries in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century China / Charlotte Furth

The bow and the burden strap: a new look at institutionalized homosexuality in native North America / Harriet Whitehead

Just on of the boys: lesbians in Cherry Grove, 1960-1988 / Esther Newton

Hijras as neither man nor woman / Serena Nanda

Tearooms and sympathy, or, The epistemology of the water closet / Lee Edelman

VII. Between the pages.

Double consciousness in Sappho's lyrics / John J. Winkler

De-constructing the lesbian body: Cherrie Moraga's Loving in the war years / Yvonna Yarbro-Bejarano

When Jack blinks : si(gh)ting gay desire in Ann Bannon's Beebo Brinker / Michèle Aina Barale

"It's not safe, not safe at all": sexuality in Nella Larsen's Passing / Deborah E. McDowell

Different desires: subjectivity and transgression in Wilde and Gide / Jonathan Dollimore

The somagrams of Gertrude Stein / Catharine R. Stimpson.