Margaret Mead Made Me Gay: Personal Essays, Public Ideas

by Esther Newton

Margaret Mead Made Me Gay is the intellectual autobiography of cultural anthropologist Esther Newton, a pioneer in gay and lesbian studies. Chronicling the development of her ideas from the excitement of early feminism in the 1960s to friendly critiques of queer theory in the 1990s, this collection covers a range of topics such as why we need more precise sexual vocabularies, why there have been fewer women doing drag than men, and how academia...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822326124
• ISBN13: 9780822326120
• Release Date: November 2000
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"