Inside/Out

<p>Lesbians and gays have gone from coming out to acting up to outing meanwhile radically redefining society's views on sexuality and gender. The essays in <em>Inside/Out</em> employ a variety of approaches (psychoanalysis deconstruction semiotics and discourse theory) to investigate representations of sex and sexual difference in literature film video music and photography. Engaging the figures of divas dykes vampires and queens the contributors address issues such as AIDS pornography pedagogy authorship and activism. <strong><em>Inside/Out</em></strong> shifts the focus from sex to sexual orientation provoking a reconsideration of the concepts of the sexual and the political.</p>