Title The straight state : sexuality and citizenship in twentieth-century America / Margot Canaday

Published Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2009]

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 277 pages) : illustrations Series Politics and society in twentieth-century America Politics and society in twentieth-century America. Contents Immigration. "A new species of undesirable immigrant" : perverse aliens and the limits of the law, 1900-1924 -- Military. "We are merely concerned with the fact of sodomy" : managing sexual stigma in the World War I-era military, 1917-1933 -- Welfare. "Most fags are floaters" : the problem of "unattached persons" during the early New Deal, 1933-1935 -- Welfare. "With the ugly word written across it" : homo-hetero binarism, federal welfare policy, and the 1944 GI Bill -- Military. "Finding a home in the Army" : women's integration, homosexual tendencies, and the Cold War military, 1947-1959 -- Immigration. "Who is a homosexual?" : the consolidation of sexual identities in mid-twentieth-century immigration law, 1952-1983 Summary This book is an expansive study of the federal regulation of homosexuality. Unearthing startling evidence from the National Archives, the author shows how the state systematically came to penalize homosexuality, giving rise to a regime of second-class citizenship that sexual minorities still live under in the early twenty-first century. The author looks at three key arenas of government control - immigration, the military, and welfare - and demonstrates how federal enforcement of sexual norms emerged with the rise of the modern bureaucratic state Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record Subject Homosexuality -- United States -- History -- 20th century Homosexuality -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century Political rights -- United States -- History -- 20th century SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gay Studies. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights. Homosexuality Homosexuality -- Political aspects Political rights Social policy SUBJECT United States -- Social policy -- 1980-1993. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh92006373 Subject United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781400830428 1400830427 1282935631 9781282935631 9786612935633 6612935634

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