Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: Queer Work in a Straight Discipline 1
5. Part I. Anti-orthodoxies
6. 1. The “Not Sociology” Problem 37
7. 2. The Methods Gatekeepers and the Exiled Queers 51
8. 3. Trans Issues in Sociology: A Trans-Centered Perspective 67
9. 4. Beyond Academia: Strategies for Using LGBT Research to Influence Public Policy 80
10. 5. Pornographics as Queer Method 95
11. Part II. Relationships
12. 6. Not Out in the Field: Studying Privacy and Disclosure as an Invisible (Trans) Man 111
13. 7. Thank You for Coming Out Today: The Queer Discomforts of In-Depth Interviewing 126
14. 8. Studying the “Right” Can Feel Wrong: Reflections on Researching Anti-LGBT Movements 140
15. 9. The Mess: Vulnerability as Ethnographic Practice 154
16. Part III. Strategies
17. 10. Challenges, Triumphs, and Praxis: Collecting Qualitative Data on Less Visible and Marginalized Populations 169
18. 11. How Many (Queer) Cases Do I Need? Thinking Through Research Design 185
19. 12. Queer Spatial Analysis 201
20. 13. Queer Persistence in the Archive 216
21. 14. Gendering Carnal Ethnography: A Queer Reception 230
22. Part IV. Epistemologies
23. 15. Translation as Queer Methodology 249
24. 16. Queer and Punishment: Sexual Social Control and the Legacy of “Nuts, Sluts and Preverts” 262
25. 17. The Demography of Sexuality: Queering Demographic Methods 277
26. 18. What to Do with Actual People? Thinking Through a Queer Social Science Method 291
27. 19. Queer Accounting: Methodological Investments and Disinvestments 304
28. List of Contributors 327
29. Index 333