Strange Craft, Strange History, Strange Folks
Cultural Amnesia and the Case for Lesbian and Gay Studies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2461089 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Will Roscoe (Institute for Women's Policy Research, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1995 |
| Volume | 97 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 448-453 |
| Publication date | 1995-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Anthropologist (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7294 • E-ISSN: 1548-1433 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1525/aa.1995.97.3.02a00030 |
| OpenAlex | W2101424014 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 9 |
The academy today is only vaguely aware that its racial, ethnic, gender, and sexual makeup does not reflect the diversity of the society that surrounds it. When the university fails to encompass lesbian and gay studies, it loses not only knowledge of the presence of homosexuality in history and culture but analysis of homophobia and the role it has played in constructing the present. What is at stake is the integrity of the Western tradition of scholarship. The question is whether its studies can be objective, thorough, accurate, and complete-in a word, scholarly-as long as subjects like homosexuality, homosexual persons, and homophobia are systematically excluded
Diversity (politics · Ethnic group · Homosexuality · Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV · Lesbian · Male Homosexuality · Political science · Psychoanalysis · Scholarship · Sociology · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues · Anthropology · European history and politics · Gender Studies · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · Law · Psychology
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,08 |
| Citation span | 2000 - 2007 (8) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |