In: Writing lives : ethnographic narratives
ch. 1. Coming out matters -- ch. 2. Learning the closet : the time of "coming in" -- ch. 3. Living (in) the closet : the time of "being closeted" -- ch. 4. Leaving the closet : the time of "coming out" -- ch. 5. Paradoxes of the closet -- ch. 6. Making change, writing hope.
In: Writing lives
In: ethnographic narratives
In: Writing lives--ethnographic narratives
In: Writing Lives: Ethnographic Narratives Ser.
Motivated by the death of his partner, Adams seeks to redefine the closet as a relational construct between all people and all sexualities. The closet is explored at each stage-entering it, inhabiting it, and coming out of it-and strategies are offered for reframing difficult closet experiences. Adams makes use of interviews, personal narratives, and autoethnography to analyze lived, relational experiences of sexuality. This is a must have for scholars and students of gender studies, qualitative research, and for any reader who has felt the closet's reach
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