Ferment in LGBT studies and queer theory: Personal ruminations on contested terrain

Journal of Homosexuality

Volumn 52, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 309-328

  Slagle, R Anthony ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

Assimilation; Autoethnography; Essentialism; Experience; Gay rights theory; Heteronormativity; Personal ethnography; Privacy; Queer theory

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FEMALE; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY;

FEMALE; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY;

EID: 84905766641     PISSN: 00918369     EISSN: 15403602     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J082v52n01_13     Document Type: Article

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