Insult and the Making of the Gay Self

Preface xi Acknowledgments xxiii Abbreviations xxv Introduction: The Language of the Tribe 1(12) PART 1 A World of Insult 13(128) The Shock of Insult 15(3) The Flight to the City 18(6) Friendship as a Way of Life 24(5) Sexuality and Professions 29(6) Family and ``Melancholy'' 35(6) The City and Conservative Discourse 41(5) To Tell or Not to Tell 46(10) Heterosexual Interpellation 56(8) The Subjected ``Soul'' 64(6) Caricature and Collective Insult 70(9) Inversions 79(9) On Sodomy 88(9) Subjectivity and Private Life 97(10) Existence Precedes Essence 107(6) Unrealizable Identity 113(11) Perturbations 124(6) The Individual and the Group 130(11) PART 2 Specters of Wilde 141(104) How ``Arrogant Pederasts'' Come into Being 143(10) An Unspeakable Vice 153(7) A Nation of Artists 160(8) Philosopher and Lover 168(8) Moral Contamination 176(6) The Truth of Masks 182(8) The Greeks against the Psychiatrists 190(7) The Democracy of Comrades 197(9) Margot-la-boulangere and the Baronne-aux-epingles 206(7) From Momentary Pleasures to Social Reform 213(10) The Will to Disturb 223(8) The ``Preoccupation with Homosexuality'' 231(14) PART 3 Michel Foucault's Heterotopias 245(94) Much More Beauty 247(3) From Night to the Light of Day 250(6) The Impulse to Escape 256(8) Homosexuality and Unreason 264(10) The Birth of Perversion 274(7) The Third Sex 281(8) Producing Subjects 289(7) Philosophy in the Closet 296(7) When Two Guys Hold Hands 303(7) Resistance and Counterdiscourse 310(9) Becoming Gay 319(7) Among Men 326(8) Making Differences 334(5) Addendum: Hannah Arendt and ``Defamed Groups'' 339(12) Notes 351(68) Works Cited 419(20) Index 439