Come Out, Come Out, Whoever You Are

Abigail C. Saguy (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

192 Seiten

2020
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-093166-7 (ISBN)

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While people used to conceal the fact that they were gay or lesbian to protect themselves from stigma and discrimination, it is now commonplace for people to "come out" and encourage others to do so as well. Come Out, Come Out, Whoever You Are systematically examines how coming out has moved beyond gay and lesbian rights groups and how different groups wrestle with the politics of coming out in their efforts to resist stigma and enact social change. It shows how different experiences and disparate risks of disclosure shape these groups' collective strategies. Through scores of interviews with LGBTQ+ people, undocumented immigrant youth, fat acceptance activists, Mormon fundamentalist polygamists, and sexual harassment lawyers and activists in the era of the #MeToo movement, Come Out, Come Out, Whoever You Are explains why so many different groups gravitate toward the term coming out. By focusing on the personal and political resonance of coming out, it provides a novel way to understand how identity politics work in America today.

Abigail Saguy is Professor of Sociology and of Gender Studies at UCLA. She has been a Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in Health Policy Research at Yale University (2000-2002) and a fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University (2008-2009). She is the author of What is Sexual Harassment? From Capitol Hill to the Sorbonne (2003) and What's Wrong with Fat (Oxford, 2013), which received Honorable Mention for the Association for Humanist Sociology's Best Book Award. She has also written scores of scientific journal articles and several op-eds published in leading news outlets.

About the Authors
Preface

1. Introduction

2. Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are
With Michael Stambolis-Ruhstorfer

3. Coming Out of Glass Closets

4. Overcoming Fear
With Laura E. Enriquez

5. Producing a Sense of Linked Fate
With Nicole Iturriaga

6. Airing Dirty Laundry and Squealing on Pigs

7. Conclusion

Notes
References
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	03.01.2020
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	231 x 155 mm
Gewicht	272 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	0-19-093166-3 / 0190931663
ISBN-13	978-0-19-093166-7 / 9780190931667
Zustand	Neuware