Out of the closet, into the archives : researching sexual histories /
Finalist for the 2016 Lambda Literary Award in LGBT Anthology presented by the Lambda Literary FoundationOut of the Closet, Into the Archives takes readers inside the experience of how it feels to do queer archival research and queer research in the archive. The archive, much like the closet, expose...
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| Language: | English |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
2015
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| Series: | SUNY series in queer politics and cultures.
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Table of Contents:
- List of Illustrations ; Foreword ; Acknowledgments ; Introduction: Something Queer at the Archive ; The Closet and the Archive ; Archival Conditions ; Archival Materiality ; Beyond the Text ; Archival Marginalizations ; Cataloging Queer Lives ; Notes ; References ; Part I: Archival Materiality ; Chapter 1: Making a Place for Lesbian Life at the Lesbian Herstory Archives ; The User ; The Archival Object ; The Archive ; Notes ; References ; Chapter 2: Secrets in Boxes: The Historian as Archivist ; Notes ; References.
- Chapter 3: Papered Over, or Some Observations on Materiality and Archival Method Notes ; References ; Part II: Beyond the Text ; Chapter 4: Elsa Gidlow's Garden: Plants, Archives, and Queer History ; Enacting a Queer Archival Impulse ; Feminist Gardens ; Discussing Apples ; Solstice Seeds ; Notes ; References ; Chapter 5: Indexing Desire: The Gay Male Pornographic Video Collection as Affective Archive ; Dubbing an Archive ; The Organizational Logics of Smut ; Plague and Desire ; Closing Glimpses ; Notes ; Chapter 6: Feverishly Lesbian-Feminist: Archival Objects and Queer Desires.
- Nude Lesbian Pastoral The Bodies of Four Publishing Archives ; Minnie Bruce Pratt's Vibrator ; Conclusion ; Notes ; References ; Part III: Archival Marginalizations ; Chapter 7: Straight Talk, Queer Haunt: The Paranormal Activity of the Chicano Art Movement ; Talking Sex in the Chicano Archive ; Into the Zone: Queer Points of Encounter ; Speaking the Unspeakable: Sexual Disclosures in Chicana/o Lives ; The Haunting of Jack Vargas: AIDS and the Phantom's Phantom ; Notes ; References ; Chapter 8: Victory Celebration for Essex Charles Hemphill; or, What Essex Saved ; Notes ; References.
- Chapter 9: Interrogating Trans* Identities in the Archives The Kinsey Institute Archives ; Archives, Authority, and Discourse ; Serendipity in the Archive: Finding Multiple Narratives ; Creating My Own Archive and Looking to the Future ; Notes ; References ; Chapter 10: Putting Trans* History on the Shelves: The Transgender Archives at the University of Victoria, Canada ; Why a Trans* Archives? ; The Transgender Archives at the University of Victoria ; Challenges ; Notes ; References ; Part IV: Cataloging Queer Lives.
- Chapter 11: Autobiographical Text, Archives, and Activism: The Jane Rule Fonds and Her Unpublished Memoir, Taking My Life Notes ; References ; Chapter 12: Interviewing Hustlers: Cross-Class Relations, Sexual Self-Documentation, and the Erotics of Queer Archives ; Hustler Protagonists of the Queer Archives: Contexts and Questions ; Thomas Painter and the Young "Proletarians": Between Philanthropy and Commercial Sex ; Male Hustlers in Painter's Sexual Self-Documentation Project ; Notes ; References ; Chapter 13: SUBSCRIBE to Feminary! Producing Community, Region, and Archive.
