Description
Book SynopsisRevisits twentieth-century ethnographic studies of deviance, arguing that ethnographies that focus on marginal subcultures - ranging from Los Angeles hoboes to men who have sex with other men in St Louis bathrooms, to taxi dancers in Chicago, to elderly Jews in Venice, California - produce new ways of thinking about social difference more broadly.
Trade Review“The book makes a compelling argument, tells a fascinating and multilayered story, and is beautifully written. The diverse subjects of the ethnographies will be of interest to specialists in a wide range of fields, including urban studies, the history and sociology of medicine, queer studies, sexuality studies, youth studies, and African American studies.”
—Andrea Friedman, Washington University in St. Louis
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Chapter 2: Making Up Hobos: Nels Anderson and Other Tramp Tales
- Chapter 3: The Taxi-Dance Hall: Paul Cressey’s Ambivalence
- Chapter 4: Zora’s Florida: Ethnographic Explorations of Zora Neale Hurston
- Chapter 5: Asylum Stories
- Chapter 6: Tearoom Trade: Tales of Public Sex
- Chapter 7: District for Deviants: Sherri Cavan’s Hippies of the Haight
- Chapter 8: Conclusion
- Index
