The Ashgate research companion to lesbian and gay activism

Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Investigating Lesbian and Gay Activism -- PART I LESBIAN AND GAY ACTIVISM THROUGH TIME -- 1 Sodomy, Effeminacy, Identity: Mobilizations for Same-sexual Loves and Practices before the Second World War -- 2 The Homophile Movement -- 3 Gay Liberation and its Legacies -- 4 AIDS Activism from North to Global -- 5 Queer Movement -- PART II IDENTITY AND ITS DISCONTENTS -- 6 LGBT Identity and the Displacement of Sexual Liberation: New York City (1969–1986) -- 7 The Spatial Politics of Gay Pride Parades and Festivals: Emotional Activism -- 8 Lesbians, Second-Wave Feminism and Gay Liberation -- 9 People of Color Mobilization in LGBT Movements in the Netherlands and the United States -- 10 Inside or Outside? Bisexual Activism and the LGBTI Community -- 11 Trans Activism and LGB Movements: Odd Bedfellows? -- PART III SOCIAL MOVEMENT ENVIRONMENT -- 12 Political Institutions and LGBTQ Activism in Comparative Perspective -- 13 Lesbian and Gay Rights and the Courts -- 14 "Lesbian and gay rights are human rights": Multiple Globalizations and LGBTI Activism -- 15 Caught in a Web? The Internet and Deterritorialization of LGBT Activism -- 16 Faith and Religion -- 17 Neoliberalism, Citizenship and Activism -- PART IV CLAIMS AND DEBATES -- 18 Decriminalizing Homosexuality: Gaining Rights through Sodomy Law Reform -- 19 SM Politics, SM Communities in the United States -- 20 Same-sex Partnership and Marriage: The Success and Costs of Transnational Activism -- 21 Rainbow Families and the State: How Policies Shape Reproductive Choices -- Afterword Liberating Generations: Continuities and Change in the Radical Queer Western Era

"The Ashgate Research Companion to Lesbian and Gay Activism provides scholars and students with a comprehensive and authoritative state-of-the-art review of the current research in this subject. Each of the 22 specially commissioned chapters develops and summarises their key issue or debate in relation to activism-that is the claims, strategies and mobilisations (including internal debates and divisions, impediments and state responses) of the lesbian and gay movement. By drawing together leading scholars from political science, sociology, anthropology and history this companion provides an up to the minute snapshot of current scholarship as well as signposting several fruitful avenues for future research."--Publisher's description

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Cover -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I Re-defining the Fan -- 1 Returning to 'Becoming-a-Fan' Stories: Theorising Transformational Objects and the Emergence/Extension of Fandom -- 2 Populating the Universe: Toy Collecting and Adult Lives -- 3 Much Ado about Keanu Reeves: The Drama of Ageing in Online Fandom -- 4 Music for (Something Other than) Pleasure: Anti-fans and the Other Side of Popular Music Appeal -- 5 A Severe Case of Disliking Bimbo Heidi, Scumbag Jesse and Bastard Tiger: Analysing Celebrities' Online Anti-fans -- 6 Fandom as Survival in Media Life -- 7 From Interpretive Communities to Interpretative Fairs: Ordinary Fandom, Textual Selection and Digital Media -- Part II Fans and Producers -- 8 Fan/Celebrity Interactions and Social Media: Connectivity and Engagement in Lady Gaga Fandom -- 9 Fans of Folklore Performances: Identifying a New Relationship Between Communication and Marketing -- 10 Investors and Patrons, Gatekeepers and Social Capital -- 11 Music Fans as Mediators in the Age of Digital Reproduction -- 12 Celebrity: The Return of the Repressed in Fan Studies? -- 13 Fans Who Cut Their Soaps Queer: A Queer Theoretical Study into Online Fandom of Gay Television Representation -- Part III Localities of Fandom -- 14 Transnational Cultural Fandom -- 15 Retreating Behind the Scenes: The 'Less'-Civilizing Impact of Virtual Spaces on the Irish Heavy Metal Scene -- 16 'Kvlt-er than Thou': Power, Suspicion and Nostalgia within Black Metal Fandom -- 17 A Decade in the Life of Online Fan Communities -- 18 Placing Fan Cultures: Xenites in the Transnational Spaces of Fandom -- 19 Embodied Fantasy: The Affective Space of Anime Conventions -- 20 Watching Football in the Fan Park: Mediatization, Spectatorship and Fan Identity.

The chapters of this volume elucidate the key themes of the fan studies vernacular. As the contributing authors draw from recent empirical work around the globe, the book provides fresh insights and innovative angles on the latest developments within fan cultures, both online and offline. Because the volume is specifically set up as a Companion for researchers, the chapters include recommendations for the further study of fan cultures. As such, it represents an essential reference volume for researchers and scholars in the fields of cultural and media studies, communication, cultural geography

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