Modern Homosexualities - by Ken Plummer

About the Book

These original essays, by both activists and academics, document and analyse the dramatic changes in lesbian and gay experience over the last twenty years. This book heralds a new maturity for lesbian and gay studies.

Book Synopsis

This book of nineteen original essays by activists and academics documents and analyses the dramatic changes in lesbian and gay experience over the last twenty years. It charts the growth of lesbian and gay studies, and examines key issues around communitites, identities, relationships, sexualities and politics. These essays, edited by a leading author in the field, herald a new confidence and maturity for the growing field of lesbian and gay studies.

Review Quotes

`there is good stuff in Modern Homosexualities...Anna Marie Smith manages new and important ideas on queer activism...this book will help sociologists to do Lesbian and Gay studies' - Alan Sinfield, Gay Times.