Title: Insult and the Making of the Gay Self (Series Q)
Description: Didier Eribon reflects on 'the gay question' & the creation of gay identities. In an age when it is claimed that being gay has been reduced to 'a lifestyle' Eribon argues that gay male politics, social life & culture should properly be seen as a transformative response to an oppressive social order.
Subjects: French literature, Gays, Psychology, Social conditions, History and criticism, Homosexuality in literature, Gays, social conditions, French literature, history and criticism, 20th century