Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 277 pages) : illustrations |
Series |
Politics and society in twentieth-century America |
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Politics and society in twentieth-century America.
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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 |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Homosexuality -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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Homosexuality -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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Political rights -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gay Studies.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights.
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Homosexuality
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Homosexuality -- Political aspects
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Political rights
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Social policy
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SUBJECT |
United States -- Social policy -- 1980-1993.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh92006373
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Subject |
United States
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9781400830428 |
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1400830427 |
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1282935631 |
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9781282935631 |
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9786612935633 |
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6612935634 |
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