Negotiating Lesbian and Gay Subjects
Monica Dorenkamp, Richard Henke
Routledge
Negotiating Lesbian and Gay Subjects collects some of the best papers from the Fifth Annual Lesbian and Gay  Studies Conference. These essays are distinguished by their  concern with a politics of location', shifting emphasis from gay and/or lesbian identity to the location of subjects in  material experiences or events. Within this framework, the writers examine literature, art, psychoanalysis and personal  experience. A number of the essays explore the role specific racial and ethnic constructions play in the construction of gay men and/or lesbians, and conversely, the role of sexual identities in forming racial and ethnic constructs. Others  are focused on the body and how it is created in reponse to  American cultural forces.