Toward Stonewall: Homosexuality And Society in the Modern Western World - Brossura

Edsall, Nicholas C.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0813925436 ISBN 13: 9780813925431

Casa editrice: Univ of Virginia Pr, 2006

Riassunto

"Edsall's survey begins three hundred years ago in northwestern Europe, when homosexual subcultures recognizably similar to those of our own era began to emerge, and it follows their surprisingly diverse paths through the Enlightenment to the early nineteenth century. The book then turns to the Victorian era, tracing the development of articulate and self-aware homosexual subcultures. With a greater sense of identity and organization came new forms of resistance: this was the age that saw the persecutionof Oscar Wilde, among others, as well as the medical establishment's labeling of homosexuality as a sign of degeneracy." "The book's final section locates the foundations of present-day gay subcultures in a succession of twentieth-century scenes and events - in pre-Nazi Germany, in the lesbian world of interwar Paris, in the law reforms of 1960s England - culminating in the emergence of popular movements in the postwar United States. Rather than examining these groups in isolation, the book considers them in their social contexts and as comparable to other subordinate groups and minority movements. In the process, Toward Stonewall illuminates not only the subcultures that are its primary subject but the larger societies from which they emerged"--Jacket.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Nicholas C. Edsall is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Virginia and the author of Richard Cobden: Independent Radical.

Product Description:

Book by Edsall Nicholas C

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Univ of Virginia Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0813925436
• ISBN 13: 9780813925431
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 377