A companion volume to "Out in the Field", a benchmark examination of lesbian and gay experiences in anthropology, "Out in Theory" presents lesbian and gay anthropology as a distinct specialization and addresses the theoretical issues that define the emerging field. This compelling collection of essays details the scholarly and personal factors that affected the emergence of lesbian and gay anthropology and speculates on the directions it will take as it continues to grow and diversify. Seeking to legitimize the field's scholarship and address issues in terminology, the essays also define the lesbian and gay anthropology's scope and subject matter and locate factors that separate it from the wider concerns of the profession. Specific essays track the emergence of lesbian and gay studies in social and cultural anthropology, linguistics, archaeology, and in various areas of anthropological activism. They also consider how feminist anthropology helped define the field and how transgendered experience, queer theory, and race and class studies are promoting new directions of inquiry within lesbian and gay anthropology.
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- Mother Camp: Female Impersonators in America by Esther Newton on 10 pages
- Families We Choose by Kath Weston on 8 pages
- Female Desires by Evelyn Blackwood on 7 pages
- Toward Anthropology of Women by Rayna R. Reiter on 7 pages
- Lesbian Mothers: Accounts of Gender in American Culture (Anthropology of Contemporary Issues) by Ellen Lewin on 7 pages
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- Speaking in Queer Tongues: Globalization and Gay Language by William L. Leap in Front Matter, and page 161
- Local Actions: Cultural Activism, Power, and Public Life in America by Melissa Checker on page 110
- God, Sex, and Politics: Homosexuality and Everyday Theologies by Dawne Moon in Back Matter
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