1. Introduction
2. Capitalism and Studying LGBT Social Movements and Identities since World War II.
3. The Homophile Movement and the Making of a Psychiatric Collective Identity
4. The Gay Rights Movement, and the Making of a Minority Identity
5. Contested Minority Identity and the Religious Right
6. The Movement Inc., and the Rise of a Domesticated and Consumerist Gay Identity
7. Rethinking Progress and Identity: Political Economy and Sexual and Gender Liberation
Biography
Stephen Valocchi is professor of sociology at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. His scholarly interests include social movements and the sociology of gender and sexuality. He has published research articles on the gay liberation, civil rights and labor movements, queer theory and social welfare policy. He is also author (along with Robert Corber) of Queer Studies: An Interdisciplinary Reader (2003) and Social Movements and Activism in the USA (2010). He teaches courses in social inequality, social movements in the United States and sexuality.
"With characteristic insight, Stephen Valocchi combines neo-Marxist analysis with historical reconstruction to ask us to reconsider everything we thought we knew about the gay and lesbian movement. Demonstrating how capitalism and its changing class structures interact with gender, sexuality, and race/ethnic inequalities, Valocchi shows us how capitalism influenced the collective identity, structure, strategies, and goals of the LGBT movement. This is a game changing analysis and a must-read for scholars interested in bringing capitalism back into the study of social movements." — Verta Taylor, Distinguished Professor of Sociology, University of California Santa Barbara
