PART 1. Time, Place, Story: Introductory Perspectives on Narrative
and the Life Course
1: Narrative Engagement and Sexual Identity: An Interdisciplinary
Approach to the Study of Sexual Lives. Phillip L. Hammack & Bertram
J. Cohler
2: History, Narrative, and Sexual Identity: Gay Liberation and
Post-War Movements for Sexual Freedom in the United States.
Benjamin Shepard
Culture, Identity, Narrative: Context and Multiplicity in Sexual
Lives
3: Stories from the Second World: Narratives of Sexual Identity in
the Czech Republic across Three Generations of Men who have Sex
with Men. Timothy McCajor Hall
4: Unity and Purpose at the Intersections of Racial/ethnic and
Sexual Identities. Ilan H. Meyer & Suzanne C. Ouellette
5: Bisexuality in a House of Mirrors: Multiple Reflections,
Multiple Identities. Paula C. Rodríguez Rust
6: Narrative Identity Construction of Black Youth for Social
Change. Mollie V. Blackburn
PART 3. Identities in Process: Stories of Risk and
Relationships
7: Between Kansas and Oz: Drugs, Sex, and the Search for Gay
Identity in the Fast Lane. Steven P. Kurtz
8: (My) Stories of Lesbian Friendship. Jacqueline S. Weinstock
9: Emergence of a Poz Sexual Culture: Accounting for "Barebacking"
among Gay Men. Barry D. Adam
10: Connectedness, Communication, and Reciprocity in Lesbian
Relationships: Implications for Women's Construction and Experience
of PMS. Janette Perz & Jane M. Ussher
11: Postcards from the Edge: Narratives of Sex and Relationship
Breakdown among Gay Men. Damien Ridge & Rebecca Wright
Making Gay and Lesbian Identities: Development, Generativity, and
the Life Course
12: In the Beginning: American Boyhood and the Life Stories of Gay
Men. Bertram J. Cohler
13: The Role of the Internet in the Sexual Identity Development of
Gay and Bisexual Male Adolescents. Gary W. Harper, Douglas Bruce,
Pedro Serrano, & Omar B. Jamil
14: Focus on the Family: The Psychosocial Context of Gay Men
Choosing Fatherhood. David deBoer
15: Midlife Lesbian Lifeworlds: Narrative Theory and Sexual
Identity. Mary Read
16: The Good (Gay) Life: The Search for Signs of Maturity in the
Narratives of Gay Adults. Laura A. King, Chad M. Burton, & Aaron C.
Geise
17: Generativity and Time in Gay Men's Life Stories. Andrew J.
Hostetler
18: From Same-Sex Desire to Homosexual Identity: History,
Biography, and the Production of the Sexual Self in Lesbian and Gay
Elders' Narratives. Dana Rosenfeld
Concluding Perspective
19: Lives,Times, and Narrative Engagement. Bertram J. Cohler &
Phillip L. Hammack
"Hammack and Cohler's The Story of Sexual Identity brings together
an unparalleled collection of innovative interdisciplinary
narrative research projects on lesbian and gay lives. The result is
a volume that pushes the study of sexual identity in many new and
promising directions....It has far-reaching appeal for established
students and clinicians, as well as for new investigators and
graduate students. No doubt it will be useful tool and
much-referenced resource for those conducting narrative research on
sexuality and sexual identity."--Journal of Gay & Lesbian Mental
Health
"This fine anthology will make a stimulating addition to graduate
or undergraduate level courses in any of the disciplines mentioned
above, especially those with a substantive focus on sexualities,
gay and lesbian/queer studies, or social science methodology. More
generally, it will be of interest to anyone who cares to learn more
about the promise of narrative methodology and its bountiful
implications for the future of social science research."
--Sexualities
"This is the book the field of sexual science needs-narratives from
a variety of disciplines on the meanings that real people, living
in real contexts, make of their same-sex sexuality. Sexual
development and its implications are illustrated by stories from
around the world, across time and cohort, and among a variety of
ethnicities and subcultures. Inevitably, the reader's preexisting
notions about same-sex desires will be altered after reading these
engaging
19 chapters. Some recount the story of a single individual (a black
lesbian youth) and others of a population (three generations of
Czech Republic men who have sex with men). In all cases,
same-sex
desires are shown to generate complex lives characterized more by
strength and resilience than pathology. Editors Hammack and Cohler
want these narratives to inspire a new generation of social science
scholars- and they certainly will.
-- Ritch C. Savin-Williams, Department of Human Development,
Cornell University
"This book offers new ways to think about sexual identity. For too
long we have observed and analyzed identity and desire from the
outside. Hammack and Cohler point out that we can shift the lens,
and position narratives as central to human development. This book
shows us that through stories of desire and identity we not only
make meaning of our lives DS we become engaged in our own
development and in social change." -- Stephen T. Russell, Professor
and Fitch
Nesbitt Endowed Chair and Director, University of Arizona
"Phillip Hammack and Bertram Cohler have assembled an extraordinary
collection of scholarly essays, empirical reports, and first-person
accounts regarding the varieties of lesbian and gay sexual
experience across the life course. At the center of this powerful
contribution to developmental science and human understanding are
stories that will pull at your heart and enliven your mind DS
stories of desire and joy, commitment and fulfillment, but also
terror and
risk, as they portray how human agency comes to terms with the
inscrutable forces that run through each of us, and through our
social worlds, to shape our lives as sexual beings." -- Dan P.
McAdams,
author of The Redemptive Self: Stories Americans Live By and George
W. Bush and the Redemptive Dream
"The volume offers several chapters that examine how context
informs the ways in which gays and lesbians have and are creating,
shaping, and reshaping the stories of their sexual identities,
illuminating the meaning behind them in an eloquent and in many
instances emotionally intimate wayEL.The works contained within
this volume have potential to stimulate new insights and research
about the sexual identity development of gays and lesbians for
years to come-a
mark of any good work." -- Journal of Marriage and Family
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