Teaching Homosexual Literature as a "Subversive" Act
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3632816 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joseph Cady (Cal Humanities, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1993 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 89-108 |
| Publication date | 1993-03-16 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Homosexuality (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0091-8369 • E-ISSN: 1540-3602 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1300/j082v24n01_06 |
| PMID | 1299706 |
| OpenAlex | W2009035139 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
If taught in a way that exposes students extensively and closely to its texts, homosexual literature can "subvert" the long-standing cultural notion that homosexuality is and should remain "unspeakable" and "untouchable." The author's working methods and materials in his gay and lesbian literature courses at the New School for Social Research, where he has been teaching the subject since 1979, are organized according to those principles. His courses also have a secondary "subversiveness" in the present academic climate, in implicitly dissenting from the dominant "new-inventionist" trend in gay studies now
Dissenting opinion · Homosexuality · Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV · Lesbian · Male Homosexuality · Political science · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Subject (documents · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues · European history and politics · Gender Studies · Law · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy · Medicine · Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.08 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2001 - 2013 (13) |
| Highly cited | No |