Embracing the Catastrophe

Gay Body Seeks Acceptance

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2385128
AutoresKeith Berry (0000-0002-7399-5462, University of Wisconsin–Superior)
Año2007
Volumen13
Número2
Páginas259-281
Fecha de publicación2007-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaQualitative Inquiry (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1077-8004 • E-ISSN: 1552-7565
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1077800406294934
OpenAlexW2023359524
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas27
Referencias citadas3

This article examines the constitution of gay male identity through embodied performances in Steamworks, a gay male bathhouse in Chicago. Motivated by Kabat-Zinn's (1990) Buddhist conceptualizations of catastrophe and mindfulness, I reflectively track the ways in which desirability influences disconnection and identity negotiation as it occurs within a pervasive, generalized, and highly influential conceptualization of the idealized gay male body. Personal narratives scan experiences at Steamworks in which my body-less than the "ideal"-matters to me and to others culturally. I use Butler's (1990) notion of performativity to propose stylized and normative ways in which subjectivity comes to be through uses of the body

Aesthetics · Autoethnography · Conceptualization · Constitution · Disconnection · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Identity (music · Identity negotiation · Narrative · Negotiation · Normative · Performativity · Political science · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Subjectivity · Diversity and Impact of Dance · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Philosophy · Psychology · Theatre and Performance Studies