{"id":29687,"date":"2020-05-09T21:19:58","date_gmt":"2020-05-09T21:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lesbianfunworld.com\/books\/?p=29687"},"modified":"2020-05-09T21:19:58","modified_gmt":"2020-05-09T21:19:58","slug":"out-of-the-closet-into-the-archives-by-amy-l-stone-jaime-cantrell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesbianfunworld.com\/books\/out-of-the-closet-into-the-archives-by-amy-l-stone-jaime-cantrell\/","title":{"rendered":"Out of the Closet, Into the Archives by Amy L. Stone; Jaime Cantrell"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Out of the Closet, Into the Archives<\/em><\/h2>\n

Researching Sexual Histories<\/em><\/h3>\n

Amy L. Stone; Jaime Cantrell<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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The first book to focus on the experience of LGBT archival research.<\/p>\n

Out of the Closet, Into the Archives takes readers inside the experience of how it feels to do queer archival research and queer research in the archive. The archive, much like the closet, exposes various levels of public and privateness–recognition, awareness, refusal, impulse, disclosure, framing, silence, cultural intelligibility–each mediated and determined through subjective insider\/outsider ways of knowing. The contributors draw on their experiences conducting research in disciplines such as sociology, African American studies, English, communications, performance studies, anthropology, and women’s and gender studies. These essays challenge scholars to engage with their affective experience of being in the archive, illuminating how the space of the archive requires a different kind of deeply personal, embodied research.<\/p>\n

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Introduction: Something Queer at the Archive<\/p>\n

Amy L. Stone and Jaime Cantrell<\/p>\n

PART I. ARCHIVAL MATERIALITY<\/p>\n

1. Making a Place for Lesbian Life at the Lesbian Herstory Archives<\/p>\n

Agatha Beins<\/p>\n

2. Secrets in Boxes: The Historian as Archivist<\/p>\n

Craig M. Loftin<\/p>\n

3. Papered Over, or Some Observations on Materiality and Archival Method<\/p>\n

Maryanne Dever<\/p>\n

PART II. BEYOND THE TEXT<\/p>\n

4. Elsa Gidlow’s Garden: Plants, Archives, and Queer History<\/p>\n

Greg Youmans<\/p>\n

5. Indexing Desire: The Gay Male Pornographic Video Collection as Affective Archive<\/p>\n

Whitney Strub<\/p>\n

6. Feverishly Lesbian-Feminist: Archival Objects and Queer Desires<\/p>\n

Julie R. Enszer<\/p>\n

PART III. ARCHIVAL MARGINALIZATIONS<\/p>\n

7. Straight Talk, Queer Haunt: The Paranormal Activity of the Chicano Art Movement<\/p>\n

Robb Hern\u00e1ndez<\/p>\n

8. Victory Celebration for Essex Charles Hemphill; or, What Essex Saved<\/p>\n

Rebecca Lynne Fullan<\/p>\n

9. Interrogating Trans* Identities in the Archives<\/p>\n

Liam Oliver Lair<\/p>\n

10. Putting Trans* History on the Shelves: The Transgender Archives at the University of Victoria, Canada<\/p>\n

Aaron H. Devor and Lara Wilson<\/p>\n

PART IV: CATALOGING QUEER LIVES<\/p>\n

11. Autobiographical Text, Archives, and Activism: The Jane Rule Fonds and Her Unpublished Memoir,Taking My Life<\/p>\n

Linda M. Morra<\/p>\n

12. Interviewing Hustlers: Cross-Class Relations, Sexual Self-Documentation, and the Erotics of Queer Archives<\/p>\n

Yuriy Zikratyy<\/p>\n

13. SUBSCRIBE to Feminary! Producing Community, Region, and Archive<\/p>\n

Jaime Cantrell<\/p><\/div>\n

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