New book review

​"Much to Scott’s credit as a researcher and writer ... he has threaded seemingly disparate (and queer) methods and analyses together to reveal key themes and to expose the multiple connections/disconnections between gay men and feminist women." Thanks Kimberly B. Dugan for the great review of my "rich and unique book" in Gender & Society! https://t.co/rTph4MTN0p

Gay Men and Feminist Women in the Fight for Equality: What Did You Do during the Second Wave, Daddy?

 My new book is out! 

"What did gay men do in women's liberation--and vice-versa? This book offers the first systematic investigation of the question. Conventional wisdom has offered varied and contradictory stories: Gay men were misogynistic enemies of feminism; feminist women were homophobic or androphobic; feminist women and gay men collaborated only during the 1960s-1970s liberation moment; lesbians rushed in to work with gay men during the AIDS crisis. Examined for the first time in this book, their stories are much more complex, yesterday and today. Feminist women and gay men have had dynamic relations in popular thinking and historic practice, including commonality, opposition, and intellectual contributions. Written by a feminist-identified gay man, this book forges an examination of these two groups' alliances and obstacles over the past 50 years, as well as their communications of, between, and about each other. What have been the received views of how these groups have or have not worked together politically? What historical evidence supports, contradicts, or complicates these views? New findings help illuminate understandings of the past and present of US women's and LGBTQ movements, as well as broader relations between social movements in general. With a special focus on neglected areas of research, such as the US South, it also argues for how these social movements shaped ideas about what it means to be gay and/or feminist." 

Book Talk 3-29

You know that book I wrote -- Pathology and Technology: Killer Apps and Sick Users? I'll be talking about it as part of the inaugural CBSHS Dean's Lecture Series: https://calendar.clemson.edu/event/deans_lecture_series_-_travers_scott#.XEilas83nOQ 

Friday, March 29 at 11:00am to 12:00pm 

Cheezem Education Center, OLLI at Clemson 100 Thomas Green Boulevard

I talk in my book about Possessed (1947), a Joan Crawford film that demonstrates feminization and disease, and the transition from neurasthenia to schizophrenia. Photos and video clips are uploaded here: https://www.flickr.com/gp/drscottclemson/Dkzd9M