{"product_id":"the-struggle-to-be-gayin-mexico-for-example-9780520397569","title":"The Struggle to Be Gayin Mexico for Example","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBeing gay is not a given. Through a rigorous ethnographic inquiry into the material foundations of sexual identity, The Struggle to Be Gay makes a compelling argument for the centrality of social class in gay lifein Mexico, for example, and by extension in other places as well.     Known for his writings on the construction of sexual identities, anthropologist and cultural studies scholar Roger N. Lancaster ponders four decades of visits to Mexican cities. In a brisk series of reflections combining storytelling, ethnography, critique, and razor-edged polemic, he shows, first, how economic inequality affects sexual subjects and subjectivities in ways both obvious and subtle, and, second, how what it means to be de ambienteon the scene or in the lifehas metamorphosed under changing political-economic conditions. The result is a groundbreaking intervention into ongoing debates over identity politicsand a renewal of our understanding of how identities are constructed, struggled for, and lived.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: When the Music Stops \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e PART I. PREDICAMENT AND CRISIS: THE STRUGGLE FOR SELF-DETERMINATION \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1. Moment of Truth \u003cbr\u003e 2. A Provisional Answer to the Question \u003cbr\u003e 3. Life’s Rich Pageant \u003cbr\u003e 4. Commonplaces \u003cbr\u003e 5. Precarious Lives \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e PART II. AMBIENTE AND AMBIGUITY: THE STRUGGLE FOR WHAT ELUDES \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 6. Fable of Rapport \u003cbr\u003e 7. Identity and Its Discontents \u003cbr\u003e 8. They Lived in a Different Time from Us\u003cbr\u003e 9. Putos \u003cbr\u003e 10. Postcards from the Ambiente \u003cbr\u003e 11. Urban Tribes \u003cbr\u003e 12. A Tale of Two Cities \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: The Horizons of Gay Identity \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Notes \u003cbr\u003e Bibliography \u003cbr\u003e Index \u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402971619671,"sku":"9780520397569","price":56.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520397569.jpg?v=1730482002","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-struggle-to-be-gayin-mexico-for-example-9780520397569","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}