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Symonds School of Lesbian and Gay StudiesThis document is provided to allow the compilation of resources on teaching and learning materials, research, and links to other academic material related to lesbian and gay issues.
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General informationKey texts in lesbian and gay studies- Sexualities journal
- Jonathan Dollimore, (1991),'Sexual Dissidence'
- Wayne R. Dynes, (editor), (1990),'Encyclopedia of Homosexuality'
- David Greenberg, (1988),'The Construction of Homosexuality'
- Steve Hogan and Lee Hudson, (1998),'Completely Queer: The Gay and Lesbian Encyclopedia'
- Andy Medhurst and Sally Munt, (1997), 'Lesbian and Gay Studies'
- Henry Minton, (1992), 'Gay and Lesbian Studies'.
- Timothy F. Murphy, (2000), "e;Reader's Guide to Lesbian and Gay Studies"e;
- Ken Plummer, (1981), 'The making of the modern homosexual'
- Ken Plummer, (1992), 'Modern Homosexualities'
- Alan Sinfield, (1994), 'The Wilde Century: Effeminacy, Oscar Wilde and the Queer Movement'
- Jeffrey Weeks, (1977), 'Coming Out'
- Bonnie Zimmerman and Toni A. H. McNaron, (1996), 'The New Lesbian Studies: Toward the 21st Century'
Lists of lesbians and gay men- AttitudeMagazine List 2001 (British gay men)
- Michael Bronski, (consulting editor), (1996), "e;Outstanding Lives: Profiles of Lesbians and Gay Men"e;.
- Peter Burton, (1991) in "e;Talking to . . . "e;(mostly, but not all, gay).
- Tom Cowan, "e;Gay Men and Women Who Enriched the World"e;
- Elliman and Roll, (1986), "e;The Pink Plaque Guide to London"e;
- Gay TimesList 1995 (British lesbians and gays)
- New YorkMagazine List 2001(lesbian and gay New Yorkers)
- The Independent on SundayPink List 2000(British lesbians and gays)
- The Independent on SundayPink List 2001(British lesbians and gays)
- The Independent on SundayPink List 2005(British lesbians and gays)
- The Observer Magazine"e;Top 20 gays and lesbians"e; 2003(British lesbians and gays)
- The Observer"e;The Observer Gay Power 20"e; 2005(British lesbians and gays)
- The Pink PaperList 2000(British lesbians and gays)
- Paul Robinson, (1999), "e;Gay Lives: Homosexual Autobiography from John Addington Symonds to Paul Monette"e;.
- A. L. Rowse, (1977), "e;Homosexuals in History"e;.
- Paul Elliott Russell, (1994), "e;The Gay 100"e;.
Lists of entries in reference worksThe people listed in the reference works are not all lesbian or gay. Some are included because there has been speculation and debate about their sexuality. Others are listed because what they have done has affected lesbian and gay lives or related issues, for good or ill.- Robert Aldrich and Garry Wotherspoon, (editors), (2001), "e;Who's Who in Gay and Lesbian History: From Antiquity to World War II"e;
- Robert Aldrich and Garry Wotherspoon, (editors), (2001), "e;Who's Who in Gay and Lesbian History: From World War II to the Present Day"e;
- Wayne R. Dynes, (editor), (1990), "e;Encyclopedia of Homosexuality"e;
- Byrne R. S. Fone, (editor), (1994), "e;The Columbia Anthology of Gay Literature"e;
- James Gardiner, (1996), "e;Who's a Pretty Boy Then?: One Hundred & Fifty Years of Gay Life in Pictures"e;
- Gabriele Griffin, (2002), "e;Who's Who in Lesbian and Gay Writing"e;
- Steve Hogan and Lee Hudson, (1998), "e;Completely Queer: The Gay and Lesbian Encyclopedia"e;
- William Stewart, (1995), "e;Cassell's Queer Companion"e;
- Claude J. Summers, (editor), (1997), "e;The Gay and Lesbian Literary Heritage"e;
See the lists of lesbians and gay men
- Niclas Berggren, Ph.D. (Econ.): Homosexuality, Issues and Links: web sitehttp://hem.passagen.se/nicb/homo.htm
- "e;This is the Golden Age of gay and lesbian analysis, theory, research, writing, books.In universities around the Western world, bits of courses, whole courses and sometimes whole degree schemes have been offered."e;,Ken Plummer,Gay Times, June, 1991.
- Queer goings-on deter Powell from academeby Tony Allen-Mills inThe Sunday Times, 3rd. August, 1997, page 19. "e;When the City University of New York (CUNY) needed a new chancellor to lift a once-formidable public institution from years of academic decline, it naturally turned to one of its most distinguished alumni. Would General Colin Powell, Gulf war hero and former student of a CUNY college in the Bronx, abandon the reticence that kept him out of last year's presidential election and take charge of his alma mater?"e; "e; . . . no sooner had he formally been offered the CUNY chancellorship than he turned it down."e;
"e;Quite apart from recent political controversies over flawed teacher-training programmes, dismal pass rates and inflated grades, CUNY has earned a reputation as America's leading hotbed of lesbian and gay research."e; "e;According to a recent article in The Village Voice, CUNY's Centre for Lesbian and Gay Studies (known as CLAGS) is 'building a department of the hottest queer theorists in the country'. Capturing the most headlines is Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, A North Carolina professor and acclaimed mother of the gay studies genre. Her latest publication is Novel Gazing: Queer readings in fiction, to be published in December."e; "e;Sedgwick, who begins teaching at CUNY in the autumn, is famous in academic circles for a startling essay about maturbation in the 19th. century. Apparently Jane Austin's novels are full of coded references to the subject. Sedgwick has become a popular focus of media scorn for her radical sexual theories. Time magazine recently dubbed her the 'nutty professor'."e;
- Queer Frontiers: USA Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Studies web siteat http://www.usc.edu/Library/QF/
- Queer Theory web site
"e;QueerTheory.com provides you with the best online resources integrated with the best visual and textual resources in Queer Culture, Queer Theory, Queer Studies, Gender Studies and related fields."e;
- Web site:http://www.queertheory.com/
- Biographies of 1500 Notable Lesbians and Gays web siteat http://nz.com/NZ/Queer/books3.html
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Sussex University Masters ProgrammeSussex University'sSexual Dissidence and Cultural ChangeMA explores the theory and practice of how gender and sexuality are represented in literature and popular culture. Typical courses include 'Sexuality, Fiction and Subculture', 'Sexuality and Identity in Twentieth-Century Culture', 'Queering Popular Culture' and 'Feminist Criticisms and Contemporary Women's Writing'. Although the programme appeals to a constituency for whom it has immediate personal significance, it also feeds into one of the most important fields of work, internationally, in English studies. The course options embody a range of theoretical approaches, including new historicism, psychoanalysis, and deconstruction. The options also reflect the research interests of the programme's tutors, whose specialisms include the history of sexuality (from the Renaissance to the present day), feminist theory, theatre and homosexuality, lesbian identity, and gender and popular culture. We believeSexual Dissidenceto be the only Masters programme of its kind in the UK. The reputations of key tutors (such asAlan Sinfield,Sally Munt, andAndy Medhurst) have made this a high-profile programme which attracts enthusiastic graduates from all over the world. Although our core intake is from the UK, we regularly host students from the US, Japan, Canada, Taiwan, and the European Union. In addition, the programme runs an open seminar devoted to questions of gender and sexuality: recent speakers have included Judith Halberstam, David Halperin, Del La Grace Volcano,Joseph BristowandMandy Merck.
To find out more about the programme, go to the web site of Sussex University's Graduate Research Centre in the Humanities:http://www.sussex.ac.uk/Units/HUMCENTR/macourses.php
Alternatively, you can email the programme convenor,Vincent Quinn, atV.R.Quinn@sussex.ac.uk.
This entry last updated 27th. February, 2002.
University of Wales BA programme in Cultural CriticismCentre for Critical and Cultural Theory, University of Wales, Cardiff
In Semester One you will be introduced to postmodern culture. You will visit a heritage site and consider the relationship between history and Postmodernity. You will also study a postmodern film. In Semester Two you will be introduced to the ideas of key thinkers who have addressed Postmodernity - Fredric Jameson and Jean-François Lyotard. You will look at sexuality in Postmodernity, analysing how the Women's Movement and Gay and Lesbian Rights Movements have questioned the idea that sexual identity is natural. You will examine social ideas of the 'normal' and the 'natural' and the role of sexuality in the market place, taking examples from fashion, advertising and pornography. You will also read a postmodern feminist novel. In the final part of the module you will look at Postmodernity and the postcolonial. Whereas the history of the West is based on colonial expansion and exploitation, empires have largely come to an end since World War Two. You will question whether colonial values and power have died with them.
As reported inPseuds CornerinPrivate Eye, 23rd. August, 1996, No. 905, page 9.
THE THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON SEX AND GENDER: TRANSGENDER AGENDA FOR THE END OF THE MILLENNIUMExeter College, Oxford University, 1998
"e;This, the third interdisciplinary conference designed to bring together members of the transgendered, intersexed and transsexual communities with 'specialists' from the medical professions and academic and social theorists, was a remarkable and memorable event. Transgender is the most contentious and challenging aspect of gender theory to emerge in recent years. For those unfamiliar with the term, it denotes an identity that celebrates the disalignment between one's embodied sex and one's gender affiliation. Hitherto pathologised as a gender disorder, it has become the sign under which queer activists and academics celebrate difference and diversity, and challenge the orthodoxies of medical and academic theories of normative gender and identity.Ashley Tauchertin "e;Conference Reports"e;,AUT Woman, as reported inPseuds CornerinPrivate Eye, 30th. April, 1999, No. 975, page 26.
National Lesbian & Gay SurveyArchive and mass observation project.
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Queer StudiesQuotations taken fromQUEER ICONS: QUEER STUDIESinThe Pink Paper, 23rd. August, 1996, issue 444. page 39."e;The idea of gay theory as an academic discipline came over from the States in the late 1980s after a particularly fruitful decade on trendy lefty American campuses. Gay academicsJonathan DollimoreandAlan Sinfieldset up an MA at the University of Sussex in 1990 calledSexual Dissidence and Cultural Change."e;
"e;It was titled thus because they cannily sussed that the term 'Lesbian and Gay Studies' wouldn't wear the weather of social change. Typically, the right-on types attracted to these courses refer to it as 'queer studies'."e;
"e;Various universities with modular degree courses - which allow you to pick different courses within one degree - are taking to queer sciences (AKA gender studies, womens' studies, etc). But as Sinfield explained: 'It's all got more complicated than we thought'."e;
Dyke theorists Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick and Lillian Faderman started it by writing barely readable tomes on such pompous subjects as homosociality and foisted their views on Eng Lit academics."e;
"e;Dollimore's Sexual Dissidence was a dry book documenting the history of queerdom in all its perverse manifestations. Alan Sinfield has fared better on the credibility front than his one-time partner in crime, but Waterstones is still full of works on queery theory."e;
"e;Sinfield believes there is an increasing emphasis on taking bisexuality, transgendered and even heterosexual issues seriously - though one London college's queer studies course has been quietly put on hold this year."e;
"e;Sinfield says: 'Homophobia does not wilt at the application of queer theory. Publishers flood the market so no-one can keep up, while looking vainly for the textbook that will put it all in a nutshell. It's almost like all other subjects . . . '."e;
"e; ' . . . except not quite. Students still say that the opportunity to do lesbian, gay and bisexual studies has changed their lives.' So don't be too sniffy about the bloated beast of Queer Studies. Or rather, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender studies."e;
First uploaded 21st. February, 1996.
Last altered 10th. October, 2006