Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Coping with Chaos in Pluralist America: Between Gender Oppression and the Foreclosure of Meaning
Power Relations: Foucault
Truth as Dis-closure: Heidegger, Ricoeur, and Gadamer
2. Hearing Gay Voices: Toward Building Community in a Pluralist Society
Testifying to What It Means to Be Gay: McNeill and Evans
The Nature of Testimony: Disclosure: Disclosing and Foreclosing Possibilities for Being in the World
3. Claiming One's Identity: A Constructivist/Narrativist Approach
The Constructed Character of Gender Identity: Ricoeur and Butler
The Narrative Character of Gender Identity: Ricoeur and Butler
4. Speaking What Has Yet to Be Said: The Call for Giving Voice to Responsive Narratives and to Hearing beyond Them
The Story: Narrative Constructions
Can We Talk
The Story: Narrative Response-ability
Levinas: Epilogue/Supplement (?)
5. Conflicting Stories/Controlling Narratives
Stories That Marginalize Gays and Lesbians
Reclaiming the Story: The Interplay of Sedimentation and Innovation
Closing, But Not Concluding
Notes
Bibliography
Index