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The Bear Book: Readings in the History and Evolution of a Gay Male Subculture

The Bear Book: Readings in the History and Evolution of a Gay Male Subculture

Wright, Les

Paperback

Series: Haworth Gay & Lesbian Studies

General SociologyGLBTQIA StudiesSexuality

ISBN10: 1560238909
ISBN13: 9781560238904
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jun 12 1997
Pages: 308
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.38
Language: English
The Bear Book is a composite portrait of gay bears--usually big, hairy men who favor full-face beards and prefer to wear jeans and flannel shirts. This emergent social phenomenon and new sexual iconography is burgeoning across America, Western Europe, and other parts of the gay global village. The first-ever book on the gay bear phenomenon, this book offers readers a collection of first-person observations and historical and critical investigations by participant observers within and outside the bear community. This exciting book is organized in an ideologically revealing manner, including sections on history, identity, social spaces, iconography, and the bear phenomenon abroad. Because of the dialectical position of this work, it inevitably both describes and, to a lesser extent, may prescribe various parameters of this subculture-in-the-making.

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