Narrating the closet : an autoethnography of same-sex attraction

Summary: Motivated by the death of his partner, Adams seeks to redefine the closet as a relational construct between all people and all sexualities. The closet is explored at each stage--entering it, inhabiting it, and coming out of it--and strategies are offered for reframing difficult closet experiences. Adams makes use of interviews, personal narratives, and autoethnography to analyze lived, relational experiences of sexuality. This is a must have for scholars and students of gender studies, qualitative research, and for any reader who has felt the closet's reach.

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ISBN: 9781598746204
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Physical Description: 1 online resource (215 pages).
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Publisher: Walnut Creek : Left Coast Press, 2011.

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General Note:	Multi-User. CatMonthString:january.17
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	1. Coming Out Matters -- 2. Learning the Closet: The Time of "Coming In" -- 3. Living (in) the Closet: The Time of "Being Closeted" -- 4. Leaving the Closet: The Time of "Coming Out" -- 5. Paradoxes of the Closet -- 6. Making Change, Writing Hope.
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Source of Description Note:	Print version record.