| Description |
224 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plate : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Journal of homosexuality ; v. 6, no. 1-2 |
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Research on homosexuality ; v. 2 |
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Journal of homosexuality ; v. 6, no. 1-2
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Research on homosexuality ; v. 2
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| Contents |
"Stigmata of degeneration" : prisoner markings in Nazi concentration camps / Erwin H. Haeberle -- The pink triangle : the persecution of homosexual males in concentration camps in Nazi Germany / Rüdiger Lautmann -- The homosexual rights movement in the United States : a traditionally overlooked area of American history / Salvatore J. Licata -- Homosexuality in history : an annotated bibliography / William Parker |
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The myth of lesbian impunity : capital laws from 1270 to 1791 / Louis Crompton -- A lesbian execution in Germany, 1721 : the trial records / translated by Brigitte Eriksson -- Sodomy and heresy in early modern Switzerland / E. William Monter -- Conceptions of homosexuality and sodomy in Western history / Arthur N. Gilbert -- Ho hum, another work of the devil : buggery and sodomy in early Stuart England / B.R. Burg -- Defining sodomy in seventeenth-century Massachusetts / Robert F. Oaks -- "Writhing bedfellows" : 1826 : two young men from antebellum South Carolina's ruling elite share "extravagant delight" / Martin Bauml Duberman -- The "third sex" theory of Karl Heinrich Ulrichs / Hubert C. Kennedy -- Inverts, perverts, and Mary-Annes : male prostitution and the regulation of homosexuality in England in the early twentieth centuries / Jeffrey Weeks |
| Summary |
Fascinating reading on the plight of gay men and women through the ages. The contributors to this compassionate book document how society has made life difficult and even dangerous for homosexual people. Through narrative history as well as biography, these essays trace the legal, social, and physical consequences of this oppression |
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Historical Perspectives on Homosexuality was written by a distinguished group of scholars under the editorial auspices of the Journal of Homosexuality and the Center for Homosexual Education, Evaluation and Research at San Francisco State University. It is the second volume of the monograph series Research on Homosexuality |
| Notes |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Male homosexuality -- History.
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Homosexuality -- history.
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| Author |
Licata, Salvatore J.
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Petersen, Robert P.
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| LC no. |
80006262 |
| ISBN |
0812828100 (Stein and Day) |
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0866564365 (paperback) |
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0917724275 |
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