Stephen Valocchi
Biographic Data
| ID | 3685599 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen Valocchi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen |
| FAMILY NAME | Valocchi |
| SIGNATURE | VALOCCHI S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Trinity College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 108 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Queering the Midwest: Forging LGBTQ Community
Aaron S. Lecklider. Love’s Next Meeting: The Forgotten History of Homosexuality and the Left in American Culture
Journal Article Aaron S. Lecklider. Love’s Next Meeting: The Forgotten History of Homosexuality and the Left in American Culture. Get access Aaron S. Lecklider. Love’s Next Meeting: The Forgotten History of Homosexuality and the Left in American Culture. Oakland: University of California Press, 2021. Pp. 354. Cloth $29.95. Stephen Valocchi Stephen Valocchi Trinity College, US Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this aut…
Capitalisms and Gay Identities
In this important text, Stephen Valocchi brings capitalism back into the study of the gay and lesbian movement. He argues that to understand the collective identity, structure, strategies and goals of the movement, we need to understand the role that capitalism and the state have played. While capitalism and the state have figured centrally in earlier analyses of social movements, these important institutions and their social processes are no lon…
Gay and Lesbian Movement
This entry examines the gay and lesbian movement, which refers to the manifold collective efforts to benefit people with same‐sex desire. It reviews the history of the movement in the United States and the scholarship on that movement, from the emergence of “the homosexual” as a distinct person in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century to the most recent developments, such as the legalization of same‐sex marriage
Capitalisms and Gay Identities: Towards a Capitalist Theory of Social Movements
This article revisits a central tenet in the research on gay identity: namely, that industrial capitalism “created” gay identity and set the stage for the modern lesbian and gay movement in the United States. Although largely forgotten by social movement scholarship, I argue that this relationship continues. Specifically, different kinds of capitalism yielded different dominant understandings of gay identity held by the movement over its 70-year …
Activism as a Career, Calling, and Way of Life
In this article, I use life histories of progressive activists to examine the class-inflected nature of activist identities. These life histories reveal three different conceptions of activist identity based primarily on the class origins of the narrators. Middle-class activists define their activism as a career, and their narratives depict a sequential and linear path to a new somewhat professionalized identity. Working-class activists conceive …
Gay and Lesbian Movement
The gay and lesbian movement refers to the manifold collective efforts to benefit people with same‐sex desire. A movement for gays and lesbians could not have happened until “the homosexual” emerged as a distinct person rather than just a set of acts. This occurred in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as the result of the efforts of sexologists to define and control non‐normative sexual and gender practices in Europe and the Unite…
"Where Did Gender Go?" Same-Sex Desire and the Persistence of Gender in Gay Male Historiography
The scholarship on gay male social history identifies a shift that supposedly takes place in the landscape of same-sex desire, practice, subjectivities, and associations during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. According to this historiography, these landscapes were fundamentally and diversely gendered in that the organization of same-sex desire flowed from the varying performances of, and identifications with, masculinity and femininity. B…
Social Movements and Activism in the USA
What can we learn when we listen closely to and engage in dialogue with social movement activists? Social Movements and Activism in the USA addresses this question for a group of progressive activists in Hartford, Connecticut, who do community, labor, feminist, gay and lesbian, peace, and anti-racist organizing. Situated within the twenty-first-century landscape of post-industrialism and neo-liberalism and drawing on oral histories, the book argu…
"The Importance of being "We: Collective Identity and the Mobilizing Work of Progressive Activists in Hartford, Connecticut
This article examines the ways that collective identity influences the mobilizing work activists perform in a wide variety of progressive activities in Hartford, Connecticut, as reported in open-ended life history interviews. Using a collective identity typology based on ideology, organization, and biography, the analysis demonstrates the variety of ways in which these different "group allegiances" affect how activists raise consciousness, choose…
The Sexual Self: The Construction of Sexual Scripts
Gay and Lesbian Movement
The gay and lesbian movement refers to the manifold collective efforts to benefit people with same‐sex desire. Although an organized movement first appeared in Germany in the late nineteenth century, this effort was shortlived. The first sustained activities, organizations, and network building for the positive recognition of lesbians and gays and the improvement of their social and political conditions appeared in the United States in the 1940s …
Not Yet Queer Enough: The Lessons of Queer Theory for the Sociology of Gender and Sexuality
This article gauges the progress that sociologists of gender and sexuality have made in employing the insights of queer theory by examining four recent monographs that have utilized aspects of queer theory in their empirical work: Rupp and Taylor (2003), Seidman (2002), Bettie (2003), and Schippers (2000). The article uses the insights of queer theory to push the monographs in an even 'queerer' theoretical direction. This direction involves takin…
Ideology and Social Welfare
Not Yet Queer Enough: The Lessons of Queer Theory for the Sociology of Gender and Sexuality
This article gauges the progress that sociologists of gender and sexuality have made in employing the insights of queer theory by examining four recent monographs that have utilized aspects of queer theory in their empirical work: Rupp and Taylor (2003), Seidman (2002), Bettie (2003), and Schippers (2000). The article uses the insights of queer theory to push the monographs in an even 'queerer' theoretical direction. This direction involves takin…
"The Importance of being "We: Collective Identity and the Mobilizing Work of Progressive Activists in Hartford, Connecticut
This article examines the ways that collective identity influences the mobilizing work activists perform in a wide variety of progressive activities in Hartford, Connecticut, as reported in open-ended life history interviews. Using a collective identity typology based on ideology, organization, and biography, the analysis demonstrates the variety of ways in which these different "group allegiances" affect how activists raise consciousness, choose…
The Sexual Self: The Construction of Sexual Scripts
Activism as a Career, Calling, and Way of Life
In this article, I use life histories of progressive activists to examine the class-inflected nature of activist identities. These life histories reveal three different conceptions of activist identity based primarily on the class origins of the narrators. Middle-class activists define their activism as a career, and their narratives depict a sequential and linear path to a new somewhat professionalized identity. Working-class activists conceive …
Capitalisms and Gay Identities: Towards a Capitalist Theory of Social Movements
This article revisits a central tenet in the research on gay identity: namely, that industrial capitalism “created” gay identity and set the stage for the modern lesbian and gay movement in the United States. Although largely forgotten by social movement scholarship, I argue that this relationship continues. Specifically, different kinds of capitalism yielded different dominant understandings of gay identity held by the movement over its 70-year …
"Where Did Gender Go?" Same-Sex Desire and the Persistence of Gender in Gay Male Historiography
The scholarship on gay male social history identifies a shift that supposedly takes place in the landscape of same-sex desire, practice, subjectivities, and associations during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. According to this historiography, these landscapes were fundamentally and diversely gendered in that the organization of same-sex desire flowed from the varying performances of, and identifications with, masculinity and femininity. B…
Ideology and Social Welfare
Not Yet Queer Enough: The Lessons of Queer Theory for the Sociology of Gender and Sexuality
This article gauges the progress that sociologists of gender and sexuality have made in employing the insights of queer theory by examining four recent monographs that have utilized aspects of queer theory in their empirical work: Rupp and Taylor (2003), Seidman (2002), Bettie (2003), and Schippers (2000). The article uses the insights of queer theory to push the monographs in an even 'queerer' theoretical direction. This direction involves takin…
Gay and Lesbian Movement
The gay and lesbian movement refers to the manifold collective efforts to benefit people with same‐sex desire. Although an organized movement first appeared in Germany in the late nineteenth century, this effort was shortlived. The first sustained activities, organizations, and network building for the positive recognition of lesbians and gays and the improvement of their social and political conditions appeared in the United States in the 1940s …
The Sexual Self: The Construction of Sexual Scripts
Social Movements and Activism in the USA
What can we learn when we listen closely to and engage in dialogue with social movement activists? Social Movements and Activism in the USA addresses this question for a group of progressive activists in Hartford, Connecticut, who do community, labor, feminist, gay and lesbian, peace, and anti-racist organizing. Situated within the twenty-first-century landscape of post-industrialism and neo-liberalism and drawing on oral histories, the book argu…
"The Importance of being "We: Collective Identity and the Mobilizing Work of Progressive Activists in Hartford, Connecticut
This article examines the ways that collective identity influences the mobilizing work activists perform in a wide variety of progressive activities in Hartford, Connecticut, as reported in open-ended life history interviews. Using a collective identity typology based on ideology, organization, and biography, the analysis demonstrates the variety of ways in which these different "group allegiances" affect how activists raise consciousness, choose…
Gay and Lesbian Movement
The gay and lesbian movement refers to the manifold collective efforts to benefit people with same‐sex desire. A movement for gays and lesbians could not have happened until “the homosexual” emerged as a distinct person rather than just a set of acts. This occurred in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as the result of the efforts of sexologists to define and control non‐normative sexual and gender practices in Europe and the Unite…
"Where Did Gender Go?" Same-Sex Desire and the Persistence of Gender in Gay Male Historiography
The scholarship on gay male social history identifies a shift that supposedly takes place in the landscape of same-sex desire, practice, subjectivities, and associations during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. According to this historiography, these landscapes were fundamentally and diversely gendered in that the organization of same-sex desire flowed from the varying performances of, and identifications with, masculinity and femininity. B…
Activism as a Career, Calling, and Way of Life
In this article, I use life histories of progressive activists to examine the class-inflected nature of activist identities. These life histories reveal three different conceptions of activist identity based primarily on the class origins of the narrators. Middle-class activists define their activism as a career, and their narratives depict a sequential and linear path to a new somewhat professionalized identity. Working-class activists conceive …
Gay and Lesbian Movement
This entry examines the gay and lesbian movement, which refers to the manifold collective efforts to benefit people with same‐sex desire. It reviews the history of the movement in the United States and the scholarship on that movement, from the emergence of “the homosexual” as a distinct person in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century to the most recent developments, such as the legalization of same‐sex marriage
Capitalisms and Gay Identities: Towards a Capitalist Theory of Social Movements
This article revisits a central tenet in the research on gay identity: namely, that industrial capitalism “created” gay identity and set the stage for the modern lesbian and gay movement in the United States. Although largely forgotten by social movement scholarship, I argue that this relationship continues. Specifically, different kinds of capitalism yielded different dominant understandings of gay identity held by the movement over its 70-year …
Capitalisms and Gay Identities
In this important text, Stephen Valocchi brings capitalism back into the study of the gay and lesbian movement. He argues that to understand the collective identity, structure, strategies and goals of the movement, we need to understand the role that capitalism and the state have played. While capitalism and the state have figured centrally in earlier analyses of social movements, these important institutions and their social processes are no lon…
Aaron S. Lecklider. Love’s Next Meeting: The Forgotten History of Homosexuality and the Left in American Culture
Journal Article Aaron S. Lecklider. Love’s Next Meeting: The Forgotten History of Homosexuality and the Left in American Culture. Get access Aaron S. Lecklider. Love’s Next Meeting: The Forgotten History of Homosexuality and the Left in American Culture. Oakland: University of California Press, 2021. Pp. 354. Cloth $29.95. Stephen Valocchi Stephen Valocchi Trinity College, US Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this aut…
Queering the Midwest: Forging LGBTQ Community
Sociology (13 works) · Gender Studies (11 works) · Political science (11 works) · Law (9 works) · Politics (8 works) · Aesthetics (7 works) · Social movement (6 works) · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works)