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Toward Stonewall : homosexuality and society in the modern Western world /

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Main Author: Edsall, Nicholas C. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, [2003]
Subjects:
Homosexuality > Europe, Western > History.
Homosexuality > United States > History.
Marginality, Social > Europe, Western > History.
Marginality, Social > United States > History.
Gay culture > Europe, Western > History.
Gay culture > United States > History.
United States. > History.
Europe, Western. > History.
Homosexualité > Europe de l'Ouest > Histoire.
Homosexualité > États-Unis > Histoire.
Subculture > Europe de l'Ouest > Histoire.
Subculture > États-Unis > Histoire.
Homosexuality
Marginality, Social
Western Europe
United States
Homosexualität
Homoseksualiteit.
Sociale aspecten.
Subcultuur.
Homosexuality.
Monosexuality.
Sexual orientation.
Subcultures.
History
Table of Contents:
  • Making a subculture. Origins
  • Patterns of repression
  • Sodomy and the Enlightenment
  • Europe divided
  • Conclusion to part 1
  • 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
  • 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.