|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 |
Gay, Inc.: The Nonprofitization of Queer Politics
University of Minnesota Press, 2018 Paper: 978-1-5179-0179-0 | Cloth: 978-1-5179-0178-3 Library of Congress Classification HD2798.M58B43 2018 Dewey Decimal Classification 362.896457630977
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOK
A bold and provocative look at how the nonprofit sphere’s expansion has helped—and hindered—the LGBT cause
Based on oral histories as well as archival research, and drawing on the author’s own extensive activist work, Gay, Inc. presents four compelling case studies. Beam looks at how people at LGBT nonprofits in Minneapolis and Chicago grapple with the contradictions between radical queer social movements and their institutionalized iterations. Through interview subjects’ incisive, funny, and heartbreaking commentaries, Beam exposes a complex world of committed people doing the best they can to effect change, and the flawed structures in which they participate, rail against, ignore, and make do. Providing a critical look at a social formation whose sanctified place in the national imagination has for too long gone unquestioned, Gay, Inc. marks a significant contribution to scholarship on sexuality, neoliberalism, and social movements. See other books on: Gay | Gay liberation movement | Middle West | Neoliberalism | Nonprofit Organizations & Charities See other titles from University of Minnesota Press |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Nearby on shelf for Industries. Land use. Labor / Large industry. Factory system. Big business / Corporations:
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Gay, Inc.: The Nonprofitization of Queer Politics
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
University of Minnesota Press, 2018
Paper: 978-1-5179-0179-0
Cloth: 978-1-5179-0178-3
Paper: 978-1-5179-0179-0
Cloth: 978-1-5179-0178-3
A bold and provocative look at how the nonprofit sphere’s expansion has helped—and hindered—the LGBT cause
What if the very structure on which social movements rely, the nonprofit system, is reinforcing the inequalities activists seek to eliminate? That is the question at the heart of this bold reassessment of the system’s massive expansion since the mid-1960s. Focusing on the LGBT movement, Myrl Beam argues that the conservative turn in queer movement politics, as exemplified by the shift toward marriage and legal equality, is due mostly to the movement’s embrace of the nonprofit structure.
Based on oral histories as well as archival research, and drawing on the author’s own extensive activist work, Gay, Inc. presents four compelling case studies. Beam looks at how people at LGBT nonprofits in Minneapolis and Chicago grapple with the contradictions between radical queer social movements and their institutionalized iterations. Through interview subjects’ incisive, funny, and heartbreaking commentaries, Beam exposes a complex world of committed people doing the best they can to effect change, and the flawed structures in which they participate, rail against, ignore, and make do.
Providing a critical look at a social formation whose sanctified place in the national imagination has for too long gone unquestioned, Gay, Inc. marks a significant contribution to scholarship on sexuality, neoliberalism, and social movements.
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
