Draws on eighteen months of research in a racially diverse working-class high school to explore the meaning of masculinity and the social practices associated with it, discussing how homophobia is used to enforce gender conformity.
In 1926, Walter White, assistant secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, broke the story of a horrific lynching in Aiken, South Carolina, in which three African Americans were murdered while more than ...
... faggot n.3 [ late 18C ] the penis . [ ? supposed resemblance to SE [ FAG n.4 ( 3 ) ] faggot , a stick ] fag v.5 [ 1960s ] ( US ) a derog . term , meaning to engage in or subject faggot adj . 1 [ 1940s + ] ( US ) pertaining to ...
Thirty-nine-year-old Fred Lemish had always hoped that love would find him by the age of forty, and with four days to go, he begins a compulsive, yet humorous, search for that love and commitment, in a classic novel of gay life. Reprint.
... definition , the op- posite of masculine , whether the word was deployed with sexualized or nonsexualized meanings ... faggot ' because of their sexual orientation but because they're weak and unmanly ” ( 72 ) . This is precisely ...
... definition of " drag " as follows : " Amongst female impersonators on the stage and men of dual sex instincts , ' drag ' denotes female attire donned by a male . Example ' All the ... Fag / Faggot " Long Description for FIGURE 4.2.
The groundbreaking work on being homosexual in America—available again only from Penguin Classics and with a new foreword by Dan Savage Originally published in 1971, Merle Miller’s On Being Different is a pioneering and thought ...
Unusual and Rare Psychological Disorders collects and synthesizes the scientific and clinical literatures for 21 lesser-known conditions.
... Faggot,'” pp. 16-18.) Although the Oxford English Dictionary fails to include any reference to sexuality in its definition of the word “faggot” (the OED did ban certain words), it does include “a term of abuse or contempt applied to a ...
... Faggot , A Badge wore in the Times of Popery , Goods but in fuch a manner , and he breaks thofe by Perfons who had recanted and abjured what Orders , he is liable to the Lofs or Damage that the then Powers adjudg'd Herefy : Thofe poor ...