References &
Further Reading
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Gender - New!
Un-spot-able | Coming Out
Queens | Butch from Birth |
Unscripted Relationships
Sex & Relationships
3 Layers of Sex | Lesbians vs Gay
Men | Sharedness or Gender?
Weaving Individual Identities
Test 3: Biological Studies of
Homosexuality
Pesky Persistence of Non-
Reproductive
Evolutionary Advantage of
Diversity in Bonding Types
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TEST 1 : GAY & LESBIAN HISTORY
The history section of the project is not intended to dig up new evidence or turn
up new facts. We are offering a different explanation of the historical evidence
that are widely recounted in gender studies. References to the social
transformations we describe can be found in lots of places, but these are a good
start:
Bland, Lucy and Laura Doan, eds. (1998). Sexology in Culture: Labelling
Bodies and Desires, Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Coontz, Stephanie (2005). Marriage, A History: From Obedience to Intimacy, or
How Love Conquered Marriage, New York: Viking Press.
D'Emilio, John and Estelle Freedman, (1988). Intimate Matters: A History of
Sexuality in America. New York: Harper and Row.
Fausto-Sterling, Anne. (1992) Myths of Gender: Biological Theories about
Women and Men, 2nd edition. Basic Books, New York.
Greenberg, David F. (1988) The Construction of Homosexuality, Chicago and
London: University of Chicago Press.
*Herdt, Gilbert. (1998) Same Sex Different Cultures, HarperCollins Canada.
Katz, Johnathon N. (1995) The Invention of Heterosexuality,Dutton.
Lancaster, Roger, and Macaela di Leonardo. 1997. The Gender / Sexuality
Reader. New York: Routledge.
Somerville, Siobhan (1997) 'Scientific Racism and the Invention of the
Homosexual Body', The Gender / Sexuality Reader: Routledge.
Ullman, Sharon R. (1995) "'The Twentieth Century Way': Female
Impersonation and Sexual Practice in Turn-of-the-Century America", Journal of
the History of Sexuality v. 5 no. 4.
TEST 2 : CURRENT GLBTQ DIVERSITY
GENDER
Judith Butler’s book Gender Trouble argued that the differences between men
and women’s behaviour was due to people ‘performing’ scripts. The novel
addition that we are proposing is that people choose the scripts that fit with their
internal sense of themselves. This addition helps explain why some people
adopt butch scripts while others do not.
We are aiming to acknowledge that there are innate differences between
people. But still challenge the cultural meaning given to some of those
differences.
Key Readings
Butler, Judith. (1999) Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity.
New York: Routledge.
DiMaggio, P. (1997) 'Culture and Cognition', Annual Review of Sociology 23:263-
287.
Sewell, William H. (1992) 'A Theory of Structure: Duality, Agency and
Transformation', American Journal of Sociology 98 (1):1-29.
Swidler, Ann. (1986) 'Culture in Action: Symbols and Strategies' American
Sociological Review 51 (2):273-286.
Other cited Readings
**Badgett, M. V. Lee. 2001. Money, Myths and Change: The Economic Lives of
Lesbians and Gay Men. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Gilmore, David. 1990. Manhood in the Making: Cultural Concepts of Masculinity.
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
^Zeeland, Steven. 1996. The Masculine Marine: Homoeroticism in the U.S.
Marine Corps. Binghampton, NY: Harrington Park Press.
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