Modern American Queer History,9781566398725

Modern American Queer History

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ISBN13: 9781566398725
ISBN10: 156639872X
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2001-08-01
Publisher(s): Temple Univ Pr
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Summary

This collection of essays considers the history as well as the historiography of queer life in America.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction
Where Are We to Begin?
3(10)
John Howard
Part One: Categories of Sexuality
Romantic Friendship
13(11)
Leila J. Rupp
``Someone to Talk Our Language'': Jane Heap, Margaret Anderson, and the Little Review in Chicago
24(12)
Holly A. Baggett
The New Negro Renaissance, A Bisexual Renaissance: The Lives and Works of Angelina Weld Grimke and Richard Bruce Nugent
36(15)
Brett Beemyn
Part Two: Evidence, Narrative, and Biography
``The Burning of Letters Continues'': Elusive Identities and the Historical Construction of Sexuality
51(18)
Estelle B. Freedman
Paula Snelling: A Significant Other
69(10)
Margaret Rose Gladney
Homeophobia and the Trajectory of Postwar American Radicalism: The Career of Bayard Rustin
79(24)
John D' Emilio
Part Three: Science, Fictions
Perverting the Diagnosis: The Lesbian and the Scientific Basis of Stigma
103(14)
Allida M. Black
``A Thought a Mother Can Hardly Face'': Sissy Boys, Parents, and Professionals in Mid-Twentieth-Century America
117(14)
Julia Grant
Something They Did in the Dark: Lesbian and Gay Novels in the United States, 1948--1973
131(24)
Chris Freeman
Part Four: Community, Institutions
Rizzo's Raiders, Beaten Beats, and Coffeehouse Culture in 1950s Philadelphia
155(26)
Marc Stein
Black Feminist Organizations and the Emergence of Interstitial Politics
181(17)
Kimberly Springer
Protest and Protestantism: Early Lesbian and Gay Institution Building in Mississippi
198(29)
John Howard
Part Five: Public Debates and Public Policy
Health Care, the AIDS Crisis, and the Politics of Community: The North Carolina Lesbian and Gay Health Project, 1982--1996
227(26)
Ian K. Lekus
The Immigrant Infection: Images of Race, Nation, and Contagion in the Public Debates on AIDS and Immigration
253(18)
Jennifer Brier
The Myth of Lesbin (In) Visibility: World War II and the Current ``Gays in the Military'' Debate
271(14)
Leisa D. Meyer
Conclusion
Where Are We Now, Where Are We Going, and Who Gets to Say?
285(15)
Vicki L. Eaklor
About the Contributors 300

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