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Celibacies : American modernism and sexual life /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kahan, Benjamin (Author)
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2013.
Subjects:
Sexual abstinence > Political aspects > United States.
Celibacy > Political aspects > United States.
Arts > Political aspects > United States > History > 20th century.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • The long durĂ©e of celibacy : Boston marriage, female friendship, and the invention of homosexuality
  • Celibate time
  • The other Harlem Renaissance : father Divine, celibate economics, and the making of Black sexuality
  • The celibate American : closetedness, emigration, and queer citizenship before Stonewall
  • Philosophical bachelorhood, philosophical spinsterhood, and celibate modernity.