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... the Riveter: Class, Gender, and Propaganda during World War II . Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 1984 . Kelley , Robin D. G , ”‘We Are Not What We Seem': Rethinking Black Working-Class Opposition in the Jim Crow South.” Journal of American History 80 ( 1993 ): 75 –112. Kennedy , Elizabeth...

...Katherine Sender Duke University Press 2003 SEX SELLS Sex, Class, and Taste in Commercial Gay and Lesbian Media Katherine Sender A teenage girl kneels on the backseat of a car in short shorts, turning toward the camera with a look both innocent and wanton. A young man lounges...

... detached) genre of sexual identity rather than perceived, like race or class, as something that cuts across existing sexualities, revealing in often unexpected ways the means through which all identities achieve their specificities. The field of transgender studies has taken...

...Karen C. Krahulik In “A Class Act,” Karen C. Krahulik returns to the scene of her community history of Provincetown, Massachusetts, but uses a different methodology to assess the relationship between gentrification and transgression. Remaining within, but not confined by, the fields of history...

... of the moral panic that would soon unfold across the city. How did class, race, and gender inequalities shape La Laguna? How did they shape heteronormative reactions to the ball? How can we understand the meanings of (homo)sexuality and cross‐dressing at the ball? This essay answers these questions...

... to retrieve out of the genuinely strange privacy that attends forms of queer and trans living. It is, rather, a fault line composed of class and race, one that routinely punctures the aspirational unity of queer and trans as the ideational anchors of our fields. In short, Casa Susanna's transvestites fail...

...Martin F. Manalansan, IV; Chantal Nadeau; Richard T. Rodríguez; Siobhan B. Somerville When imagined in relation to other regions in the United States, the Midwest is often positioned as the “norm,” the uncontested site of middle-class white American heteronormativity. This characterization...

... bakla , arguing that the complex encounters between such formations are conditioned by emplaced class and gender hierarchies that stem from both colonial history and a neoliberal cultural context. I argue that in contrast to Filipino gay men in the diaspora who recuperate the practices of the bakla...

...Lisa Henderson This article recognizes Gayle Rubin's commitments to intellectual memory, to the study of living sexual populations, and to questions of class as part of the project of studying sex. Together, these commitments acknowledge and welcome interdependence in a harsh world of sexual...

... not only the conditions of modern gay urban life but also social class in the postwar United States. Following biographical traces throughout his writing, I place him in relation to the tradition of the “scholarship boy” and suggest that secrecy and shame in his work are indexed not only to sexual but also...

... in contemporary South Africa, particularly its intersection with class and race. Ultimately, I am interested in exploring how black queer bodies test the limits of freedom and liberation, exposing both the possibilities and the contradictions of the postapartheid state. © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012...

...Jasbir K. Puar This essay examines the potential for using affective connectivities to rethink neoliberal stratification. Because discourses surrounding queer suicide reproduce problematic assumptions not only about race, class, and gender but also about bodily health, debility, and capacity, I...

... of Chicago, and their successful and unsuccessful attempts to negotiate divergent national and ethnic histories, class and linguistic differences, and the diverse political stances of their membership. I also look at the coalition-building politics that the two organizations established with other Latino...

... at regional drive-ins across the US Midwest. I next analyze one paradigmatic film — Bloody Mama (1970) — to substantiate its cultural operations for a largely white, working-class viewership, and then consider what hixploitation tells us about the intimate relationships between nascent conservative...

... collection of short stories, Throw It to the River (1993). Based in Toronto, Canada (on Lake Ontario), from 1988 to 2004, Rodriguez, a self-identified Filipino/a tomboy writer, addresses themes of migration, immigration, displacement, and class/poverty; the US-Marcos dictatorship; queer desire, love...

... official narrative of gay integration made possible by self-fashioning. In the first section, it describes Drag Race 's ambivalence around race, class, gender presentation, and sexuality through an analysis of the show's humor and slogans. It then discusses two contestants who are framed as “outsides...

... on the invisible and oft-forgotten outcasts of the LGBT community, those young outlaws of the working class who cruise and define themselves against the white and affluent “Mr. Middle of the Road” trope so exalted in Adair's documentary. © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 documentary John Rechy outlaw...

..., queer longing, and queer affect—one that nonetheless managed to pass itself off as acceptable reading material for any number of middle-class Turkish families. Facing the systematic erasure of Istanbul's centuries-old tradition of male homoerotic culture from the official and state record, Koçu makes...

... regimes always function in relation to crosscutting hierarchies of race, gender, class, and geopolitics. This suggests that the campaign for recognition of same-sex couples must address the multiple underpinnings of the il/legal distinction or else risk benefiting only the most privileged. The article...

... practices of mobility and movement—sea-based transportation, migration, and travel—are constitutive of racialized and classed Filipino masculinities. Duke University Press 2008 Transportation Translating Filipino and Filipino American Tomboy Masculinities through Global Migration and Seafaring...