Description: Further DetailsTitle: Camp SitesCondition: NewSubtitle: Sex, Politics, and Academic Style in Postwar AmericaISBN-10: 0804784418EAN: 9780804784412ISBN: 9780804784412Publisher: Stanford University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 06/19/2013Description: Reading across the disciplines of the mid-century university, this book argues that the political shift in postwar America from consensus liberalism to New Left radicalism entailed as many continuities as ruptures. Both Cold War liberals and radicals understood the university as a privileged site for "doing politics," and both exiled homosexuality from the political ideals each group favored. Liberals, who advanced a politics of style over substance, saw gay people as unable to separate the two, as incapable of maintaining the opportunistic suspension of disbelief on which a tough-minded liberalism depended. Radicals, committed to a politics of authenticity, saw gay people as hopelessly beholden to the role-playing and duplicity that the radicals condemned in their liberal forebears. Camp Sites considers key themes of postwar culture, from the conflict between performance and authenticity to the rise of the meritocracy, through the lens of camp, the underground sensibility of pre-Stonewall gay life. In so doing, it argues that our basic assumptions about the social style of the postwar milieu are deeply informed by certain presuppositions about homosexual experience and identity, and that these presuppositions remain stubbornly entrenched despite our post-Stonewall consciousness-raising.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Weight: 340gAuthor: Michael TraskGenre: Law & PoliticsBook Series: Post*45Topic: Society & Culture, LGBTQ+, Gender Sex & Relationships, Children's Learning & EducationRelease Year: 2013 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Camp Sites
Title: Camp Sites
Subtitle: Sex, Politics, and Academic Style in Postwar America
ISBN-10: 0804784418
EAN: 9780804784412
ISBN: 9780804784412
Release Date: 06/19/2013
Release Year: 2013
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Law & Politics
Topic: Children's Learning & Education
Number of Pages: 272 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Camp Sites : Sex, Politics, and Academic Style in Postwar America
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Item Height: 0.7 in
Publication Year: 2013
Subject: General, Popular Culture, American / General, Higher, Customs & Traditions, Subjects & Themes / Politics, Lgbt
Item Weight: 12 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Michael Trask
Item Length: 9 in
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Social Science, Education
Series: Post*45 Ser.
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Trade Paperback
