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Peter M. Nardi
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 Gay
Men's Friendships : Invincible Communities by Peter
M. Nardi
Based on surveys and interviews of two hundred
gay men, Peter Nardi's new study presents the first book-length
examination of contemporary urban gay men's friendships. Expertly
weaving historical and sociological research on friendship with
firsthand information, Nardi argues that friendship is the central
organizing element of gay men's lives. Through friendship, gay
identities and communities are created, transformed, maintained,
and reproduced. Nardi explores the meaning of friends to some gay
men, how friends often become a surrogate family, how sexual
behavior and attraction affects these friendships, and how, for
many, friends mean more and last longer than romantic
relationships. While looking at the psychological joys and sorrows
of friendship, he also considers the cultural constraints limiting
gay men in contemporary urban America--especially those that deal
with dominant images of masculinity and heterosexuality--and how
they relate to friendship.
By listening to gay men talk about their
interactions, Nardi offers a rare glimpse into the mechanisms of
gay life. We learn how gay men meet their friends, what they
typically do and talk about, and how these strong relationships
contain the roots of larger cultural forces such as social
movements and gay identities and neighborhoods. Nardi also points
out the political and social consequences when friendships fail to
provide support against oppression.
An intimate and informative look at gay life in
urban America, Gay Men's Friendships ultimately shows how
these relationships challenge the gender order of our society by
questioning how masculinity is constructed and by offering a model
for a more creative blending of gay and heterosexual masculinity.
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Biography
Born in the Bronx, went to Regis High School in
Manhattan, University of Notre Dame for my undergraduate years,
and the University of Pennsylvania for my PhD. I have been
teaching at the Claremont Colleges since 1975, and have been an
academic/activist in the gay community in Los Angeles.
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Organizations & Institutions
Pitzer College (The Claremont Colleges)
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Gay and Lesbian Social Issues -- With national
attention focused on issues of sexual orientation, the
importance of understanding the history, psychology, and
sociology of lesbian and gay people has never been as strong.
This semester we address the social issues that are regularly
debated in contemporary American society and which affect the
growing globalization of gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender
identities. |
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Fields of Study
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Sociology |
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Gay Studies |
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I love magic, its
history, performance, and the insights it provides about
reality and illusion. |
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Published Works:
Peter M. Nardi. Gay
Men's Friendships: Invincible Communities (Chicago 1999)
Peter M. Nardi, Co-Editor: Social
Perspectives in Lesbian & Gay Studies (Routledge 1998)
Peter M. Nardi, Editor. Gay
Masculinities (Sage 2000)
Other publications: see
CV
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Current Projects
I am editor of Sociological
Perspectives, the official journal of the Pacific
Sociological Association, published by University of California
Press.
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