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Toward Stonewall : homosexuality and society in the modern western world / Nicholas C. Edsall.

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Edsall, Nicholas C.
Other title:Homosexuality and society in the modern western world.
Format: eBook
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.
Subculture > Europe, Western > History.
Subculture > United States > History.
Homosexuality.
Marginality, Social.
Subculture.
Western Europe.
United States.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Part 1: Making a subculture: Origins; Patterns of repression; Sodomy and the Enlightenment; Europe divided; Conclusion to Part 1
  • Part 2: 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
  • Part 3: 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.

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