About the Authors
Preface
1. Introduction
2. Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are
With Michael Stambolis-Ruhstorfer
3. Coming Out of Glass Closets
4. Overcoming Fear
With Laura E. Enriquez
5. Producing a Sense of Linked Fate
With Nicole Iturriaga
6. Airing Dirty Laundry and Squealing on Pigs
7. Conclusion
Notes
References
Index
Abigail Saguy is Professor of Sociology and of Gender Studies at
UCLA. She has been a Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in Health Policy
Research at Yale University (2000-2002) and a fellow at the Center
for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford
University (2008-2009). She is the author of What is Sexual
Harassment? From Capitol Hill to the Sorbonne (2003) and What's
Wrong with Fat (Oxford, 2013), which
received Honorable Mention for the Association for Humanist
Sociology's Best Book Award. She has also written scores of
scientific journal articles and several op-eds published in leading
news outlets.
"[S]hows how 'coming out' is at once a cultural concept, a way to
resist stigma while reaffirming an authentic self; and a political
tactic, a master frame for worldmaking.... Saguy explodes the
meaning of coming out.... Like all good books, Saguy's Come Out,
Come Out, Whoever You Are raises many more questions than it can
possibly answer." -- Amin Ghaziani, Public Books
"Abigail Saguy's new book, Come Out, Come Out, Whoever You Are,
offers a fascinating and powerful analysis of how various groups
are using "coming out" to gain personal power, allies and increased
civil rights." -- Ms. Magazine
"[T]his methodically researched book worthily broadens the idea of
coming out, which Saguy rightly observes, is about sharing stories
that provide language, concepts, and tactics for people who have
been invisible or in hiding to become visible.... Saguy gives us
hope that as more people come out to resist stigma, we can all band
together, despite social distancing, to advance a more just world."
-- The Bay Area Reporter
"For individuals silenced by social stigma and shame, coming out is
a bold and potentially dangerous act. But for contemporary social
movements, coming out is necessary first step to claiming dignity,
rights, and recognition. Saguy deftly traces the surprising power
and perils of the coming out narrative in the fight for social
justice." -Christine Williams, The University of Texas at
Austin
"Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are brilliantly describes how the
many ways of being different have given rise to a universal push
for visibility and recognition. Not just gay activists, but the fat
acceptance movement, Mormon polygamists, and many, many others now
claim the right to reject stigma and come out of their various
closets. While the comparisons across these cases are instructive,
this book's attention to similarities is what readers will find
most surprising and intriguing." -Steven Epstein, Northwestern
University, and author of Inclusion: The Politics of Difference in
Medical Research
"The 1970s rallying cry to come out of the closet has proved to be
an enduring metaphor for liberation, a transferable social movement
principle, and an elastic concept both within and outside of LGBTQ
life. In Come Out, Come Out, Whoever You Are Abigail Saguy and her
colleagues tease out the multiple meanings, uses, and lessons of
coming out across a variety of movements and identities. An astute,
inventive sociological biography of a powerful symbol
and strategy." -Joshua Gamson, University of San Francisco
"This fascinating book reveals how the term 'coming out' travels
between social movements in recent decades to define how groups
gain recognition-from LGBTQ people to people embracing their
fatness, the undocumented, polygamists and those who turned to
#MeToo to denounce harassers. Meticulously researched, it shows the
power of narratives and tells an essential story about how cultural
change happens in contemporary America. This surprising and
engaging study
should be required reading for anyone interested in
destigmatization and social justice." -Michèle Lamont, Harvard
University
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