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Author Edsall, Nicholas C

Title Toward Stonewall : homosexuality and society in the modern western world / Nicholas C. Edsall
Published Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, ©2003

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 377 pages)
Contents Part 1: Making a subculture: Origins; Patterns of repression; Sodomy and the Enlightenment; Europe divided; Conclusion to Part 1 -- Part 2: Defining a subculture: Pioneers: The United States -- Pioneers: Germany; Pioneers: England; Wilde; Degeneracy and atavism; Purity and impurity; The cult of youth; Forster and Gide; Conclusion to Part 2 -- Part 3: Organizing a subculture; Between the wars; The making of a lesbian subculture; Homosexuality and psychiatry; False starts and new beginnings; Reaction; Outsiders abroad and at home; From Wolfenden to Stonewall -- Conclusion to Part 3
Summary "Edsall's survey begins three hundred years ago in northwestern Europe, when homosexual subcultures recognizably similar to those of our own era began to emerge, and it follows their surprisingly diverse paths through the Enlightenment to the early nineteenth century. The book then turns to the Victorian era, tracing the development of articulate and self-aware homosexual subcultures. With a greater sense of identity and organization came new forms of resistance: this was the age that saw the persecution of Oscar Wilde, among others, as well as the medical establishment's labeling of homosexuality as a sign of degeneracy." "The book's final section locates the foundations of present-day gay subcultures in a succession of twentieth-century scenes and events - in pre-Nazi Germany, in the lesbian world of interwar Paris, in the law reforms of 1960s England - culminating in the emergence of popular movements in the postwar United States. Rather than examining these groups in isolation, the book considers them in their social contexts and as comparable to other subordinate groups and minority movements. In the process, Toward Stonewall illuminates not only the subcultures that are its primary subject but the larger societies from which they emerged"--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-363) and index
Notes English
Subject Homosexuality -- Europe, Western -- History
Homosexuality -- United States -- History
Marginality, Social -- Europe, Western -- History
Marginality, Social -- United States -- History
Subculture -- Europe, Western -- History
Subculture -- United States -- History
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gay Studies.
HISTORY -- World.
Homosexuality
Marginality, Social
Subculture
Homoseksualiteit.
Sociale aspecten.
Subcultuur.
Western Europe
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2002155966
ISBN 9780813923963
0813923964
0813925436
9780813925431
1283579219
9781283579216
Other Titles Homosexuality and society in the modern western world