Few Good Gays

Few Good Gays

The Gendered Compromises behind Military Inclusion

Connell, Cati

University of California Press

12/2022

312

Dura

Inglês

9780520382688

15 a 20 dias

544

Descrição não disponível.
Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Dawning of a Kinder, Gentler US Military

Part 1 Repealing Don't Ask, Don't Tell

1. "The Hard Work to Get Me in the Door": A History of the Gay Ban

2. "What They Do in Their Private Life, I Couldn't Care Less": Striking the
Homonormative Bargain

3. "He Acts Straight but He Has This One Thing . . .": Open LGB Service and
Queer Social Control

Part 2 Ending Combat Exclusion

4. "When You Want to Create a Group of Male Killers, You Kill the Woman in Them":
Feminine Abjection and the Impossibility of Women Warriors

5. "My Problem's Not That I'm Gay; My Problem Is That I'm a Woman": The Patriotic
Paternalism of Combat Exclusion

Part 3 Removing Medical Restrictions on Transgender Service

6. "Once He Saw Them as Soldiers, I Knew We Had It": The Trans Ban Tug of War

7. "You Can't Have Three Bathrooms at a Forward Operating Position": Gender Panic in the
Transgendering Organization

Part 4 Conclusion

8 . We Will Be Greeted as Gay Liberators?

Methodological Appendix A
Methodological Appendix B
Methodological Appendix C
Notes
References
Index