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Gay Voluntary Associations in New York : Public Sharing and Private Lives / Moshe Shokeid.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2014]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (240 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780812246575
  • 9780812290363
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.7660975 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1. The Anthropologist in the Field of Sexuality -- CHAPTER 2. Concealments and Revelations in Ethnographic Research -- CHAPTER 3. The Regretless Seniors -- CHAPTER 4. Attending Meetings of Sexual Compulsives Anonymous -- CHAPTER 5. In the Company of the Bisexual Circle -- CHAPTER 6. The Interracial Gay Men's Association: Men of All Colors Together -- CHAPTER 7. The Gentle Men's Circle -- CHAPTER 8. Cuddling with Gay Bears -- CHAPTER 9. Listening to the Sermons in Gay Congregations -- CHAPTER 10. Talking Sex, Imagining Love: The Emotional Template -- AFTERWORD. Negotiating Gay Subjectivity -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- INDEX -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Summary: Gay Voluntary Associations in New York is a sensitive and insightful ethnography of social groups that have gathered around common interests in an urban LGBT population from the time of the AIDS crisis to the present. Anthropologist Moshe Shokeid examines the social discourse of sex, love, friendship, and spiritual life in which these communities are passionately engaged.Drawn from long-term anthropological research in New York City, Gay Voluntary Associations in New York uses participant observation to explore such diverse social associations and religious organizations as seniors groups, interracials, bisexuals, sexual compulsives, gay bears, and Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish gay congregations. As an outside observer-neither gay nor American-born-Shokeid examines the social discourse within these voluntary associations from a critical vantage point. In addition to the personal information and intimate expressions of empathy freely shared in the company of strangers at social gatherings, individual stories and experiences are woven into the narrative to illustrate the existential conditions and emotional template of gay life in the city. Shokeid's nuanced portrait of the affective relationships within these groups offers deeper comprehension of the social dynamics and emotional realities of gay urban communities in the United States.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1. The Anthropologist in the Field of Sexuality -- CHAPTER 2. Concealments and Revelations in Ethnographic Research -- CHAPTER 3. The Regretless Seniors -- CHAPTER 4. Attending Meetings of Sexual Compulsives Anonymous -- CHAPTER 5. In the Company of the Bisexual Circle -- CHAPTER 6. The Interracial Gay Men's Association: Men of All Colors Together -- CHAPTER 7. The Gentle Men's Circle -- CHAPTER 8. Cuddling with Gay Bears -- CHAPTER 9. Listening to the Sermons in Gay Congregations -- CHAPTER 10. Talking Sex, Imagining Love: The Emotional Template -- AFTERWORD. Negotiating Gay Subjectivity -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- INDEX -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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Gay Voluntary Associations in New York is a sensitive and insightful ethnography of social groups that have gathered around common interests in an urban LGBT population from the time of the AIDS crisis to the present. Anthropologist Moshe Shokeid examines the social discourse of sex, love, friendship, and spiritual life in which these communities are passionately engaged.Drawn from long-term anthropological research in New York City, Gay Voluntary Associations in New York uses participant observation to explore such diverse social associations and religious organizations as seniors groups, interracials, bisexuals, sexual compulsives, gay bears, and Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish gay congregations. As an outside observer-neither gay nor American-born-Shokeid examines the social discourse within these voluntary associations from a critical vantage point. In addition to the personal information and intimate expressions of empathy freely shared in the company of strangers at social gatherings, individual stories and experiences are woven into the narrative to illustrate the existential conditions and emotional template of gay life in the city. Shokeid's nuanced portrait of the affective relationships within these groups offers deeper comprehension of the social dynamics and emotional realities of gay urban communities in the United States.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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