C: Readers

There has been a recent flury of "readers" and "sourcebooks" in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans*, and Queer Studies. Since these both collect numerous important essays, and are useful for class assignment, the titles are presented together here, for convenience.

Abelove, Henry, Michele Aina Barale, and David Halperin, eds., The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader, (New York: Routledge: 1993)[800 pages] Selection of some of forty two of the important theoretical and historical writings in Lesbian and Gay Studies. Virtually no history as such. [666 pages]

I Politics and Representation
Gayle S. Rubin: Notes for a radical theory of the politics of sexuality, 3
Eve Kosofsky Sedgewick: Epistemology of the closet, 45
Stuart Hall: Deviance, politics and the media, 65
Marilyn Frye: Some reflections on seperatism and power, 91
Barbara Smith: Homophobia: why bring it up? 99
Monique Wittig: One is not born a woman, 103
Ana Maria Alonso and Mari Teresa Koreck: Silences: "Hispanics", AIDS and sexual practices, 110
Cindy Patton: From Nation to Family: Containg African AIDS

II Spectacular Logic
Teresa De Lauretis: Sexual indifference and lesbian representation, 141
Phillip Brian Harper: Eloquence and epitaph: Black nationalism and the homophobic impulse in response to the death of Max Robinson, 159
Sasha Torres: Television/Feminism: Heartbeat and prime time lesbianism, 176
Simon Watney: The Spectacle of AIDS, 202

III Subjectivity, Discipline, Resistence
IV The Uses of the Erotic
V The Evidence of Experience
VI Collective Identities/Dissident Identities
VII Between the Pages

Blasius, Mark and Shane Phelan, eds, We are Everywhere: A Historical Sourcebook of Gay and Lesbian Politics, (New York : Routledge, 1997) [600 pages] Massive compilation of documents. In fact, its is too big for its paperback covers.

I. Pre-History of a Lesbian and Gay Movement

A. Enlightenment Backgrounds
B. The French Revolution: Sexual Liberation and Political Speech

II. The Beginnings of a Gay and Lesbian Movement
A. The Third Sex Theory and the Creation of Political Subjects
B. The Emergence of a Gay and Lesbian Political Culture in Germany
C. Voices of the Gay and Lesbian Diaspora: Britain and France
D. From Liberalism to the New Social Relations of Soviet Socialism
E. Subculture, Censorship, and Civil Rights in the United States

III. The Homophile Movement: 1950-1969
IV. Gay Liberation and Lesbian Feminism
V. The Gay and Lesbian Politics of AIDS
VI. The Present Moment and the Future of Desire

Comstock, Gary David, and Susan E. Henking, eds., Que(e)rying Religion: A Critical Anthology, (New York: Continuum, 1997)
Contains 39 previously published articles and book chapters:

I: History
II: Tradition
III: Culture and Society
IV: Scripture and Myth

Duberman, Martin, ed., A Queer World: The Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader, (New York: New York University Press, 1997)
Gross, Larry, and James D. Woods, eds., Columbia Reader on Lesbians and Gay Men in American Society, Politics and the Media, (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997)[forthcoming]
Jennings, Kevin, ed., Becoming Visible : A Reader in Gay and Lesbian History for High School and College Students, (Boston: Alyson, 1994) Selections from a number of authors for use in High School LGB history courses.
Lancaster, Roger and Micaela di Leonardo, eds., The Gender/Sexuality Reader: Culture, History, Political Economy,(New York: Routledge: 1997) [550 pages]
McCormick, Ian, ed., Secret Sexualities: A Sourcebook of 17th and 18th Century Writing, (New York: Routledge, 1997) [272 pages]

Introduction
Anatomies
Crimes
Representations
Sapphism

Morton, Donald, ed., The Material Queer: A LesBiGay Cultural Studies Reader, (Boulder CO: Westview, 1996)
Contains previously published articles addressing Queer Studies with a from the perspectives of materialism, Marxism, and Deconstruction. readers need a high tolerance for a critical jargon which may date rather rapidly. Uniquely for one of these books, Morton also lists important articles from which he was not granted reprint permission. The working bibliography is excellent. The sections are:

Intro: Queer Consensus/Socialist Conflict
Dossier 1: Outing the Concepts
Dossier 2: Signsex
Dossier 3: Identity Matters
Dossier 4: Queer Desire

See also the collections of Articles by Wayne Dynes and Stephen Donaldson:- Dynes, Wayne, and Stephen Donaldson, eds., History of Homosexuality in Europe and America, (New York : Garland Pub., 1992) Collected articles. Dynes, W. R & Donaldson, S, eds. Studies in Homosexuality, I: Homosexuality in the Ancient World
Collected essays, (New York: Garland, 1992)
Dynes, Wayne, and Stephen Donaldson, eds., Ethnographic Studies of Homosexuality, (New York : Garland Pub., 1992)
Collected articles.
Dynes, Wayne R. and Stephen Donaldson, eds. Asian Homosexuality, (New York : Garland Pub., 1992)
Collected articles