Esther Newton

Foreword: The Butch Anthropologist Out in the Field / Judith Halberstam ix

Foreword: On Being Different: An Appreciation / William L. Leap xix

Acknowledgments xxiii

Introduction 1

Part I: Drag and Camp

From the Appendix to Mother Camp, Field Methods (1972) 11

Role Models (1972) 14

Preface to the Phoenix Edition of Mother Camp (1979) 30

Theater: Gay Anti-Church—More Notes on Camp (1992/1999) 34

Dick(less) Tracy and the Homecoming Queen: Lesbian Power and Representation in Gay Male Cherry Grove (1996) 63

Part II: Lesbian-Feminism

High School Crack-up (1973) 93

Marginal Woman/Marginal Academic (1973) 103

The Personal is Political: Consciousness Raising and Personal Change in the Women's Liberation Movement (Shirley Walton, 1971) 113

Excerpt from Womanfriends (with Shirley Walton, 1976) 142

Will the Real Lesbian Community Please Stand Up? (1982/1998) 155

Part III: Butch

The Misunderstanding: Toward a More Precise Sexual Vocabulary (with Shirley Walton, 1984) 167

The Mythic Mannish Lesbian: Radclyffe Hall and the New Woman(1984) 176

Beyond Freud, Ken, and Barbie (1986) 189

My Butch Career: A Memoir (1996) 195

Part IV: Queer Anthropology

DMS: The Outsider's Insider (1995) 215

Too Queer for College: Notes on Homophobia (1987) 219

An Open Letter to "Manda Cesara" (1980) 225

Of Yams, Grinders, and Gays: The Anthropology of Homosexuality (1988) 229

Lesbian and Gay Issues in Anthropology: Some Remarks to the Chairs of Anthropology Departments (1993) 238

My Best Informant’s Dress: The Erotic Equation in Fieldwork (1992) 243

Notes 259

Bibliography 293

Index 311