An American Obsession – Science, Medicine, and Homosexuality in Modern Society - Jennifer Terry

An American Obsession – Science, Medicine, and Homosexuality in Modern Society

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Buch | Softcover
552 Seiten
1999
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-79367-2 (ISBN)
37,40 inkl. MwSt
This text is a history of how the obsession with homosexuality is deeply tied to changing American anxieties about social and sexual order in the modern age. It argues that homosexuality served as a marker of the "abnormal" against which contradictory concepts of the "normal" were defined.
Drawing on research from medical texts, psychiatric case histories, pioneering statistical surveys, first-person accounts, legal cases, sensationalist journalism and legislative debates, this text is a history of how the century-old obsession with homosexuality is deeply tied to changing American anxieties about social and sexual order in the modern age. The overarching argument is that homosexuality served as a marker of the "abnormal" against which malleable, tenuous and often contradictory concepts of the "normal" were defined. The book takes into consideration homosexuality in both women and men and refuses to erase the agency of people classified as abnormal. It documents the ways that gays, lesbians and other sexual minorities have co-authored, resisted and transformed the most powerful and authoritative modern truths about sex.
Erscheint lt. Verlag 15.12.1999
Sprache englisch
Maße 151 x 227 mm
Gewicht 810 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Kulturgeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Sozialgeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Gender Studies
ISBN-10 0-226-79367-2 / 0226793672
ISBN-13 978-0-226-79367-2 / 9780226793672
Zustand Neuware
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