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Activating
Theory
This collection represents the
diversity of lesbian, gay and bisexual identities and subcultures that have
flourished over the past decade. In particular, it gives prominence to the
controversial emergence of queer activism, and the birth of a bisexual politics.
Is there a common ground between bisexuals and homosexuals? How has ACTUP
affected the demands for the rights of people living with HIV and AIDS? What's
stopping health educators teaching school children about safer sex?
Combining work by academics and activists belonging to a variety of fields
- including psychoanalysis, political theory, sex education and AIDS research
- this is a wide ranging and provocative collection that will appeal to many
different audiences.
'excellent introduction and exploration of basic questions centring around lesbian, gay and bisexual politics'
Pink Paper
Contributors: Jose Arroyo, Helen (charles), Davina Cooper, Jo Eadie,
Clare Hemmings, Didi Herman, Mary McIntosh, Alan Sinfield, Merl Storr, Rachel
Thomson, Elizabeth Wilson. Joseph Bristow lectures in English literature at
the University of York and has edited Sexual Sameness: Textual Differences
in Lesbian and Gay Writing (1992)
Angelia R Wilson lectures at South Bank University and the Open University.
She is completing graduate work at the University of York.