Defiant Desire: Gay and Lesbian Lives in South Africa

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 376 pages
• Published by: Routledge
• Edition: 1st Edition January 11, 1995
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0415910617
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0415910613
• Book Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1.1 inches
• Weighs: 1.4 pounds

Product Review
With moving first-person accounts and fine attention to historical detail, these essays show us a South Africa the world could never have known. -- San Francisco Examiner
Defiant Desire requirements to be read. -- VLS
Defiant Desireis scrupoulous in representing the great range of voices that lay claim to gay and lesbian identity in South Africa, without pretending to be exhaustive or forgetting the enormous gender, race, and class differences between and amoung self-identified gays and lesbians. -- VLS
Vividly capturing the diversity of lesbian and gay culture, Defiant Desire blends provocative testimony and nuanced analysis to raise important questions about race, sexuality, and gender ambiguity in South Africa. -- Anne McClintock, Columbia University

Product Description
Defiant Desire records the lives of lesbian and gay South Africans of all races as they have lived in the face of censure, denial and oppression. The history of gay identity in South Africa is here in its past and present aspects: from a drag salon in Woodstock to a gay "shebeen" in kwaThema; from a church in a Pretoria nightclub to Johannesburg's lesbian and gay pride march; from Afrikaans love poetry to the new activism. The book is a document of lesbian and gay struggle, and indispensable for those interested in the sexual politics coursing beneath the country's troubled passage to democracy.