Doug,
I think that a good place to begin is Harriet Malinowitz ( 1995)
Textual orientations: lesbian and gay Students and the making of Discourse
communities. Boynton/Cook
If you are loooking for the area of queer pedagogy and theory and
curriculum then I can suggest the more or less recent collection of
work by William Pinar "Queer theory in Education" ( 1998). Lawrence
Earlbaum Assoc.
And if you really want to jump into the world of new technologies,
media and gender as performativity, transgendered, queer and virtual
sexualities then Sandy Stone is your transgendered theory diva.
http://www.actlab.utexas.edu/~sandy/
and her incredible book The War of Desire and technology at the Close of
the mechanical Age 1995 (MIT PRESS)
Aw well, although this does not expressly deal with gay and lesbian
identity formation and media, I think that an area of research and theory
which I think is very rich is the conceptual work provided by Dorothy Smith
- which has been more recently re-framed in a way that might be more
accessible from the perspective of genre theorists. I suggest you look
at her recent book Writing the social: Critique, theory and
Investigations 1999 University of Toronto Press
Her set of essays in Text, Facts and FemininityL Exploring the relations
of ruling (1993) routledge and The conceptual Practices of Power: A
Feminist sociology of Knowledge (UTP) bring in sociology, feminist
post-structualist thought, linguistic analysis and discourse theory to
explore how we are textually and discursive mediated by the active texts
of institutions, so in some ways - although it is a more modernist
precurser to more "distributed" identity politics, she has articulated the
mechanisms of power relations, identity formation and particpation in
discursive activity systems from the "outsiders" perspective.
I hope this isn't too distracting
kathryn
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>Doug Brent wrote:
>>
>> I am working with a PhD student on the topic of how gay and lesbian
>> groups use media (broadly defined), not so much to "get their message
>> out" but to define their own social identity both for others and for
>> themselves.
>>
>> We are working on candidacy reading lists right now and there are two
>> areas I'd appreciate some input on. Under "Identity and Community," I'd
>>
>> appreciate ideas on sources regarding how group identity in particular
>> is rhetorically constructed. This clearly taps into the "Rhetoric as
>> Epistemic" line of research.
>>
>> Also, we have another list, "The Rhetoric of Activism." We have much of
>>
>> the Rhetoric of Social Change material on this list but I'd like to get
>> ideas for anything particularly new or germane.
>>
>> Nothing at this point needs necessarily to relate directly to queer
>> activism. We are at the stage of filling in general background.
>>
>> Thanks for your help!
>>
>> Doug
>>
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