A sea of stories : the shaping power of narrative in gay and lesbian cultures : a festschrift for John P. De Cecco /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Jones, Sonya L. (Editor), De Cecco, John P. (honouree.)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Harrington Park Press, [2000]
Series:Haworth gay & lesbian studies.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: A Festschrift for John P. De Cecco / Sonya L. Jones
  • Apologia Pro Gay and Lesbian Studies: My "History and Memory" As Allegheny Student and Editor of the Journal of Homosexuality / John P. De Cecco
  • Ch. 1. Historical Evolution of Our Stories: The Persecution of Homosexuals During the Third Reich / J. Scott Van Der Meid
  • Weimar Republic
  • Legislation Under the National Socialists
  • Persecution
  • Life in the Concentration Camps
  • Life After 1945
  • Ch. 2. Selling Gay Literature Before Stonewall / David Bergman
  • Ch. 3. Workplace Narratives: Using Coming-Out Stories to Enhance Workplace Diversity / Alan L. Ellis
  • Development of Attitudes Regarding Sexuality
  • Attitude Change and the Role of Contact
  • Use of Narrative As a Form of "Indirect Contact"
  • Power of Narrative As a Catalyst for Change
  • Using Narrative in the Workplace
  • Bottom Line: Coming Out, Productivity, and Job Satisfaction
  • Tell or Not to Tell One's Story
  • Current Literature on Workplace Issues
  • Ch. 4. Queer Youth: Old Stories, New Stories / Glenda M. Russell, Janis S. Bohan and David Lilly
  • Context
  • Study, The Story
  • Queer Narratives: The Stories Youth Live
  • Ch. 5. "Melodramatic Maybe, It Seems to Me Now": Langston Hughes and the Underwritten Self / Laura Quinn
  • Ch. 6. In the Body's Ghetto / Walter Holland
  • Becoming Men: Gay Male Memoir and Autobiography from the 1940s Onward
  • Un-Becoming Men: The Postmodern Burlesque and Satire
  • Many Kinds of Open: Six Lesbian Voices from the American 1970s
  • Ch. 7. Embracing the Past by Retelling the Stories / Ruth Vanita
  • Growing Up Gay in India
  • "I'm an Excellent Animal": Cows, Motherhood, and Love Between Women
  • Ch. 8. Telling Lives: A Community Responds to AIDS / Jeanne Braham and Pamela Peterson
  • Ch. 9. Two Grooms: Revisited, Celebrated, and Remembered / Louie Crew, Reverend Canon Elizabeth Kaeton and Maxine Turner
  • Fort Valley, Georgia, 1976
  • After the Honeymoon
  • Two Grooms, Continued: The Renewal of Vows
  • February 2, 1999
  • Love That Need Not Speak Its Name: Sex and Sin in the South
  • Ch. 10. "I Would Prefer Not To"
  • Loving Karen / Diana Hume George
  • Ch. 11. Professional Queer Remembers: Bibliography, Narrative, and the Saving Power of Memory / Raymond-Jean Frontain
  • Prelude One (Fall 1978)
  • Prelude Two (Winter 1975)
  • Prelude Three (Summer 1996)
  • Memory As Survival
  • Narrative As Redemption
  • Bibliography As Narrative
  • Conclusion: Branches from a Green Tree
  • Ch. 12. Kiss in the Cane / Robert J. Balfour.