{"title":"An “Academic Homosexual”: Ken Plummer and the National Deviancy Conference","authors":"J. Irvine","doi":"10.1177/13634607231168988","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Like all scholars, Ken’s work was shaped at the intersection of his personal experiences and the complexities of his historical moment. And in the late 1960s and early 1970s, becoming an “academic homosexual” was no simple task. Both grassroots and academic scholars, whose publications would later be considered part of the gay canon, worked in obscurity.","PeriodicalId":51454,"journal":{"name":"Sexualities","volume":"26 1","pages":"502 - 510"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1000,"publicationDate":"2023-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Sexualities","FirstCategoryId":"90","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13634607231168988","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"SOCIOLOGY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Like all scholars, Ken’s work was shaped at the intersection of his personal experiences and the complexities of his historical moment. And in the late 1960s and early 1970s, becoming an “academic homosexual” was no simple task. Both grassroots and academic scholars, whose publications would later be considered part of the gay canon, worked in obscurity.
期刊介绍:
Consistently one of the world"s leading journals in the exploration of human sexualities within a truly interdisciplinary context, Sexualities publishes peer-reviewed, scholarly articles that exemplify the very best of current research. It is published six times a year and aims to present cutting-edge debate and review for an international readership of scholars, lecturers, postgraduate students and advanced undergraduates. Sexualities publishes work of an analytic and ethnographic nature which describes, analyses, theorizes and provides a critique on the changing nature of the social organization of human sexual experience in the late modern world.