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Jeffery Dennis
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| Reader's
Guide to Lesbian and Gay Studies by
Timothy F. Murphy (Editor), Jeffery Dennis (Contributor)
The field of
lesbian/gay/queer studies is expanding at an astonishing pace. New
books dealing with exciting issues are being published all the
time. It is an exciting moment in history when topics that were
previously hidden and taboo can be discussed openly and widely.
This book serves as a point of departure for
anyone wanting to do more in-depth study of the topics in lesbigay
studies today. This Guide will point you toward the most important
studies on a particular topic, whether that topic is same-sex
marriage, homosexuality in the military, lesbian and gay studies
in high school, or any number of historical figures such as
Shakespeare and Sappho.
The Guide offers a concise summary and
evaluation of book-length studies in English. Not every subject
made it into the book, but there are hundreds of entries ranging
from historical topics to current affairs. The Guide directs you
to key sources for further in-depth study. I am happy to offer
this Guide in the name of promoting this important area of study.
-- The author, Timothy Murphy
This volume includes "Sociology: Continuing
Issues and Controversies; Labeling Theory; Homosociality," by
Jeffery Dennis
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Biography
I grew up in Illinois and received my M.A. in
English from Indiana University before moving to California.
After several attempts at a career teaching English, I moved into
the fields of city planning and architecture. In 1997 I
decided to return to graduate school, and I received a Ph.D.
in sociology in 2001. I have lived in three gay ghettos and
several suburbs and small towns.
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Organizations & Institutions
Bowdoin College
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Fields of Study
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Sociology of
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Urban Sociology |
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Published Works
I publish in two main areas:
The development of GLBT subcultures, cultures, and communities in
the U.S. and Europe, particularly as impacted by external
hostility.
The increasing heterosexualization of individual and group
identity in popular culture.
Journals
From Arcadia to Utopia: Metanarratives of Desire
in Ethnographic Texts. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography
30.3 (Oct. 2000): 618-640.
Queer on the Tenure Track: The Domestication of Transgressive
Sexual Identities in the Academy. International Journal of
Sexuality and Gender Studies 5.3 (Oct. 2000): 311-324.
Lying with Man as With Woman: Rethinking the Impact of Religious
Ideology on Gay Urban Enclaves. Forthcoming, The Journal of
Homosexuality.
Strangers in the Land: Re-Creating Suburban Kinship Networks.
Under review, Sociological
Perspectives.
The Same Thing We Do Every Night: Signifying Desire in Television
Cartoons. Under review, Critical Media Studies.
What's Sodomy Got to Do With It? Political Capital and Gay
Community. Under review, Journal of Gay and Lesbian
Politics
Chapters in Books
The Sexualization of Childhood. In D. Cook, ed. Symbolic
Childhoods. New York: Peter Lang Publishing Group, 2001.
The Hispanic Family. In J. Hawes & E. Shores, eds., The
Family in America. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2002.
The Poetics of Castro Street: Inventing Gay Homelands. Forthcoming
in J. Puar, ed., Sexuality and Space.
The Mcdonaldization of the Family." Forthcoming in
G. Ritzer, ed., The McDonaldization Reader.
Encyclopedia Articles
Sociology: Continuing Issues and Controversies;
Labeling Theory; Homosociality. In T. Murphy, ed., The
Reader's Guide to Gay and Lesbian Studies. Chicago: Fitzroy
Dearborn, 1999.
Islam; Judaism; Gay and Lesbian Studies; Total Institutions;
Transsexualism; Utopias. In J. Palmisano, ed., The World
of Sociology. Farmington Hills, MI: The Gale Group,
2000.
Heteronormativity. Forthcoming in M. Kimmel, ed., The
Encyclopedia of Men and Masculinity. Santa Barbara, CA:
ABC-CLIO, 2002.
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Conferences
2001
Crossing Castro Street: The Borderlands of
Utopia. Conference on Sexuality and Space, New York, February.
The McDonaldization of the Family. Eastern Sociological
Society, Philadelphia, March.
The Impact of Religious Ideologies on the Colonization of Urban
Space. American Sociological Association, Anaheim, August.
?Community? What Community?? The Perils and Promise of
Suburban Resistance. American Sociological Association, Anaheim,
August.
2000
Redlight Districts and Wrong Sides of the
Tracks: The Landscape of Transgressive Sexualities. Eastern
Sociological Society, Baltimore, March.
Queer on the Tenure Track: The Domestication of Transgressive
Identity in the Academy. American Sociological Association,
Washington, DC, August.
1999
Taking Back the Tower: Responses to the
Institutionalization of Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the
Academy. Eastern Sociological Society, Boston, March.
A Sociological Road Not Take: Transgressive Utopias Before
Durkheim. American Sociological Association, Chicago, August.
Toward A New Typology of Hate Crimes. New England Sociological
Association, Boston, November.
1998
From Folk Devil to Fairy Godmother: The
Iconography of the Drag Queen. Eastern Sociological Association,
Philadelphia, March.
Monstrous Desire for the Infinite: Queer Theory and the
Sociological Fathers. International Sociological Association,
Montreal, July.
Cross-Sex Friendships: The Undiscovered Country. American Men?s
Studies Annual Conference, Stony Brook, July.
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Current Projects
A book project on the globalization of sexual
identity: how indigenous models of same-sex desire were co-opted
by the Western homosexual/heterosexual and gay/straight models.
The sexualization of space: boundary markers of
GLBT neighborhoods and spatially diffuse communities.
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