The Pleasure Principle
Subtitle: Sex, Backlash, and the Struggle for Gay Freedom
By: Michael Bronski.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: St. Martinʼs Press
Published: August, 1998
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 394
ISBN-13: 9780312156251
Copyright date: 1998
Subjects: Gays in popular culture -- United States; Gay rights -- United States -- Public opinion; Homosexuality -- United States; Gays -- United States -- Public opinion; Public opinion -- United States; Gay culture -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-282) and index.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgments
pagenum: vii; title: Introduction
pagenum: 1; label: One
title: The Making of Americans
pagenum: 5; label: Two
title: The Pleasure Principle
pagenum: 15; label: Three
title: Popular Culture
pagenum: 26; label: 1.
title: Pleasure and Culture
pagenum: 26; label: 2.
title: Gay Sensibility
pagenum: 28; label: 3.
title: Repression and Reaction
pagenum: 32; label: Four
title: Subculture and Dominant Culture: The Limits of Assimilation
pagenum: 37; label: Five
title: Gay Culture
pagenum: 54; label: Six
title: Gay Freedom, Gay Movement, Backlash
pagenum: 64; label: Seven
title: The Eroticized Male Body
pagenum: 81; label: 1.
title: In His Own Image
pagenum: 81; label: 2.
title: Brave New World: New Bodies, New Visions
pagenum: 88; label: 3.
title: A Crisis of Transfigured Bodies
pagenum: 99; label: Eight
title: Suffer the Little Children
pagenum: 109; label: 1.
title: The Innocent Child
pagenum: 111; label: 2.
title: Father Ritter
pagenum: 115; label: 3.
title: Pee-wee Herman and the Gay Playhouse
pagenum: 121; label: 4.
title: The Molestation Libel
pagenum: 125; label: 5.
title: The Family "Reinvented"
pagenum: 125; label: 6.
title: Recruitment
pagenum: 132; label: Nine
title: The Construction of a Pleasure Class and the Marketing of Homosexuality
pagenum: 138; label: 1.
title: Special Rights of the Pleasure Class
pagenum: 138; label: 2.
title: From Gay Rights to "Gay Lifestyle"
pagenum: 140; label: 3.
title: The Gay Market
pagenum: 144; label: 4.
title: The Gay Constituent
pagenum: 146; label: 5.
title: False Images and the Burdens of Heterosexuality
pagenum: 148; label: 6.
title: The Gay Moment
pagenum: 154; label: Ten
title: Pleasure and the Failure of Privacy
pagenum: 158; label: 1.
title: Privacy: The Regulation of Pleasure
pagenum: 158; label: 2.
title: Privacy and Homosexuality
pagenum: 160; label: 3.
title: Hardwick: The Failure of Privacy
pagenum: 165; label: 4.
title: Outing: The Regulation of Public Identity
pagenum: 170; label: Eleven
title: The Gay Ghetto and the Creation of Culture
pagenum: 183; label: 1.
title: Being Visible and Being Public
pagenum: 183; label: 2.
title: The Ghetto
pagenum: 185; label: 3.
title: Public Gay Spaces: The Invisible Map
pagenum: 190; label: 4.
title: Ghettos and Roots: Homosexual Statelessness, or a Crisis in Public Space
pagenum: 204; label: 5.
title: Gay Ghettos as Crucibles of Culture, Change, and Pleasure
pagenum: 213; label: 6.
title: From Ghetto to Neighborhood: The Transformation of Public Space and the Homosexual Refugee
pagenum: 220; label: Conclusion
title: The world turned upside down
pagenum: 226; label: 1.
title: Pleasure and Misrule
pagenum: 226; label: 2.
title: Pleasure Envy
pagenum: 235; title: Notes
pagenum: 250; title: Bibliography
pagenum: 271; title: Index
pagenum: 283