Other Sheep - Multicultural Ministries with Sexual Minorities

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Cultural/
Hist.Studies

Cultural/ Historical Studies

Kwame Appiah & Henry Gates Jr. (ed), Identities, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1995.
This anthology studies identity across multiple intersections of race, class, gender, lesbian and gay,
interracial, ethnic, and postcolonial perspectives.

Leo Bersani, Homos, Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1995.
Bersani undertakes a positive affirmation of gay identity against those maintaining that no such
identity exists.

Rudi C. Bleys, Geography of Perversion: Male-to-Male Sexual Behavior Outside the West and the
Ethnographic Imagination, 1750-1918, New York, New York University Press, 1996.
Bleys argues that European representation of cultural otherness is related to modern constructions
of homosexuality.

Roger E. Biery, Understanding Homosexuality: The Pride and the Prejudice, Austin, Edward Williams
Publishing, 1990.
A general book on a wide variety of gay/lesbian issues with a section on the church and
homosexuality.

Frank Browning, A Queer Geography: Journeys Toward a Sexual Self, New York, Crown Publishers,
1996.
Provocative exploration of gay sexual identity.

Gary David Comstock & Susan E. Henking (ed), Que(e)rying Religion: A Critical Anthology, New
York, Continuum, 1997.
A good resource in queer studies in history, culture and society, and religion. Some exceptional
classic essays.

Jonathan Dollimore, Sexual Dissidence: Augustine to Wilde, Freud to Foucault, Oxford, Clarendon
Press, 1991.
Good cultural examination of homoeroticism and otherness. It needs to be required reading for
theologians.

Lisa Duggan & Nan D. Hunter, Sex Wars: Dissent and Political Culture, New York, Routledge, 1995.
Collection of writings of two veteran women on the sexual politics of over feminism, pornography,
queer civil rights, and lesbian/gay studies.

Julia Epstein & Kristina Straub (eds), Body Guards: The Cultural Politics of Gender Ambiguity, New
York, Routledge, 1991.
This anthology provides a wide-range of cross cultural studies in gender ambiguity.

Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality, Vol. I-III, New York, Vintage, 1990.
Foucault embarks on ambitious history of the cultural construction of sexuality. Volume I haas
revolutionized contemporary gender and sexuality studies.

Michel Foucault, Power/Knowledge, New York, Pantheon Books, 1980.
An important of series of essays by Foucault.

Marjorie Garber, Vested Interests: Cross-Dressing & Cultural Anxiety, New York, Routledge,
Chapman and Hall, 1992.
Excellent cultural study of cross-dressing, ranging from transvestism to transsexualism

David Halperin, Saint Foucault: Towards a Gay Hagiography, New York, Oxford University Press,
1995.
Halperin provides the best gay analysis of Foucault to date.

Gilbert Herdt, Guardians of the Flutes: Idioms of Masculinity, New York, McGraw-Hill, 1981.
Herdt's study of the social construction of homosexuality in Melanesia.

Gilbert Herdt (ed), Ritualized Homosexuality in Melanesia, Berkeley, Universsity of California Press,
1984.
Cross-cultural study of homosexuality in Melanesia.

Gilbert Herdt (ed), Third Sex, Third Gender: Beyond Sexual Dimorphism in Culture and History, New
York, Zone Books, 1994.
This book brings historical and anthropological studies on people who challenged sexual dimorphism
and reproduction: hijiras, Byzantine eunuchs, Sapphists, and hermaphrodite-homosexuals.

Jamake Highwater, Myth & Sexuality, New York, Meridian Books, 1991.
Highwater provides a wonderful mythic, cultural history of sexuality.

Jamake Highwater, The Mythology of Transgression: Homosexuality as Metaphor, New York, Oxford
University Press, 1997.
Highwater explores the social construction of homophobia and homosexuality. Good overview of the
scientific debate on homosexuality.

Thomas Laqueur, Making Sex: Body and Gender form the Greeks to Freud, Cambridge, Harvard
University Press, 1990.
Laqueur traces how cultural views of the body and sexuality have changed over the century. He
contrasts the ancient one sex model with the contemporary two sex model.

Russel Leong (ed), Asian American Sexualities: Dimensions of the Gay & Lesbian Experience, New
York, Routledge, 1995
A collection of critical scholarly essays and personal accounts, interviews, and poetry dispelling
many American stereotypes.

Richard Mohr, Gay Ideas: Outing and Other Controversies, Boston, Beacon Press, 1992.
Mohr provides a good philosophical analysis of contemporary gay culture.

Ken Plummer (ed), Modern Homosexualities: Fragments of Lesbian and Gay Experience, London,
Routledge, 1992.
Nineteen essays around issues of communities, cultural identities, relationships, sexualities, and
politics.

Jeffrey Weeks, Sexuality and Its Discontents: Meanings, Myths & Modern Sexualities, New York,
Routlege, 1985.
Weeks takes a radical pluralist approach to modern sexuality emerging from cultural diversity and
choice.

Jeffrey Weeks, Sex, Politics & Society: The Regulation of Sexuality Since 1800, (2nd edition) New
York, Longman, 1989.
Weeks trace the history of sexuality within late capitalist/consumerist society.

Jeffrey Weeks, Against Nature: Essays on History, Sexuality, and Identity, London, Rivers Oram
Press, 1991.
A series of Week's essays that explores a variety of invented and constructed sexualities traceable
in modern history.