| Description |
xiv, 537 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Ch. 1. Modernity and the Vexing Presence of Homosexuals -- Ch. 2. Medicalizing Homosexuality -- Ch. 3. The United States of Perversion -- Ch. 4. Progressive Science in Search of Sexual Normality -- Ch. 5. Fluid Sexes -- Ch. 6. The Committee for the Study of Sex Variants -- Ch. 7. Sex Variant Subjects -- Ch. 8. Policing Homosexuality -- Ch. 9. Disease of Way of Life? -- Ch. 10. Parents, Strangers, and Other Dangers -- Ch. 11. Fear of a World Conspiracy -- Ch. 12. Discerning Allies and Enemies |
| Summary |
"Drawing on original research from medical texts, psychiatric case histories, pioneering statistical surveys, first-person accounts, legal cases, sensationalist journalism, and legislative debates, Jennifer Terry has written a history of how the century-old obsession with homosexuality is deeply tied to changing American anxieties about social and sexual order in the modern age." "Terry's overarching argument is the homosexuality served as a maker of the "abnormal" against which malleable, tenuous, and often contradictory concepts of the "normal" were defined. One of the few histories to take into consideration homosexuality in both women and men, Terry's work also stands out in its refusal to erase the agency of people classified as abnormal. She documents the myriad ways that gays, lesbians, and other sexual minorities have coauthored, resisted, and transformed the most powerful and authoritative modern truths about sex."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 481-521) and index |
| Subject |
Homosexuality -- United States -- History.
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Homosexuality -- History.
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Sexology -- United States -- History.
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| LC no. |
99020809 |
| ISBN |
0226793664 cloth alkaline paper |
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0226793672 paperback alkaline paper |
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