1st Edition

Narrating the Closet An Autoethnography of Same-Sex Attraction

By Tony E Adams Copyright 2011
216 Pages
by Routledge

215 Pages
by Routledge

215 Pages
by Routledge

Motivated by the death of his partner, Adams seeks to redefine the closet as a relational construct between all people and all sexualities. The closet is explored at each stage—entering it, inhabiting it, and coming out of it—and strategies are offered for reframing difficult closet experiences. Adams makes use of interviews, personal narratives, and autoethnography to analyze lived, relational... Read more
Chapter One Coming Out Matters; Chapter Two Learning the Closet: The Time of “Coming In”; Chapter Three Living (in) the Closet: The Time of “Being Closeted”; Chapter Four Leaving the Closet: The Time of Coming Out; Chapter Five Paradoxes of the Closet; Chapter Six Making Change, Writing Hope; Chapter 7 Epilogue;

Biography

Tony E. Adams