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Genre/Form: | History |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
John D'Emilio |
ISBN: | 0226142671 9780226142678 |
OCLC Number: | 39069536 |
Description: | xvi, 269 pages ; 23 cm |
Contents: | Pt. 1. Identity, Community, and Oppression: A Sexual Minority in the Making. 1. Homosexuality and American Society: An Overview. 2. Forging a Group Identity: World War II and the Emergence of an Urban Gay Subculture. 3. The Bonds of Oppression: Gay Life in the 1950s -- Pt. 2. The 1950s: Radical Visions and Conformist Pressures. 4. Radical Beginnings of the Mattachine Society. 5. Retreat to Respectability. 6. Dual Identity and Lesbian Autonomy: The Beginnings of Separate Organizing Among Women. 7. The Quest for Legitimacy -- Pt. 3. The 1960s: Civil Rights and the Pursuit of Equality. 8. Gay Life in the Public Eye. 9. Civil Rights and Direct Action: The New East Coast Militancy, 1961-1965. 10. The Movement and the Subculture Converge: San Francisco During the Early 1960s. 11. High Hopes and Modest Gains -- Pt. 4. The Liberation Impulse. 12. A New Beginning: The Birth of Gay Liberation. 13. Conclusion. |
Responsibility: | John D'Emilio. |
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Abstract:
Including documentation of the oppression of homosexuals and biographical sketches of the lesbian and gay heroes who helped the late-20th-century gay culture to emerge, this text aims to provide a definitive analysis of the homophile movement in the USA from 1940 to 1970.
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