Gay Macho

Download or read book Gay Macho written by Martin P. Levine and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sociological study of the emergence of the gay male culture from the explosion of gay liberation in the early 1970s through the beginning of the AIDS crisis of the mid-1980s. The first half of the book is the dissertation of Levine, who based it primarily on field work conducted in Greenwich Village's growing gay community in the late 1970s. He looks at the sociology of gay masculinity, hypermasculine sexuality and gender confirmation, and the birth of the "gay clone." The second half of the work is made up of essays which chronicle the beginning of the AIDS epidemic, examine the myth of sexual compulsivity, and look at the implications of constructionist theory for social research on the AIDS epidemic. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR