Feeling Backward
Author | : Heather Love |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 207 |
Release | : 2009-03-31 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780674032392 |
ISBN-13 | : 067403239X |
Rating | : 4/5 (92 Downloads) |
Download or read book Feeling Backward written by Heather Love and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-03-31 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Feeling Backward' weighs the cost of the contemporary move to the mainstream in lesbian and gay culture. It makes an effort to value aspects of historical gay experience that now threaten to disappear, branded as embarrassing evidence of the bad old days before Stonewall. Love argues that instead of moving on, we need to look backward.