Soc 626 Difference vs Sameness in Identity Deployment

These articles are about the gay movement.  Both are in the book.  Note: We also did not discuss the Gitlin article assigned before break, so that is relevant, too. (In class I said that “reading notes” on these articles would be accepted as on time next Tuesday as well.)

1. * GJ30. Joshua Gamson. The Dilemmas Of Identity Politics (From Must Identity Movements Self-Destruct? A Queer Dilemma. Social Problems 1995). Fixed identities are both the basis for oppression and the basis for political power. I put this article here because it and the Bernstein article are taking different angles on the same issue.
2. * GJ22. Mary Bernstein. The Strategic Uses Of Identity In The Lesbian And Gay Movement: Bernstein, Mary. “Celebration and Suppression: The Strategic Uses of Identity by the Lesbian and Gay Movement.” American Journal of Sociology; 1997, 103, 3, Nov, 531-565. Identities as public expressions of yourself which you can deploy for political purposes, stressing either similarity or difference with the dominant group.
3. Reading notes on Gitlin (from above), Gamson and Bernstein.