Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940
Autor George Chaunceyen Limba Engleză Paperback – 8 apr 2019
Gay
New
Yorkbrilliantly
shatters
the
myth
that
before
the
1960s
gay
life
existed
only
in
the
closet,
where
gay
men
were
isolated,
invisible,
and
self-hating.
Drawing
on
a
rich
trove
of
diaries,
legal
records,
and
other
unpublished
documents,
George
Chauncey
constructs
a
fascinating
portrait
of
a
vibrant,
cohesive
gay
world
that
is
not
supposed
to
have
existed.
Called
"monumental"
(Washington
Post),
"unassailable"
(Boston
Globe),
"brilliant"
(Nation),
and
"a
first-rate
book
of
history"
(New
York
Times),Gay
New
Yorkforever
changed
how
we
think
about
the
history
of
gay
life
in
New
York
City,
and
beyond.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781541699212
ISBN-10: 1541699211
Pagini: 512
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 40 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Editura: BASIC BOOKS
Colecția Basic Books
ISBN-10: 1541699211
Pagini: 512
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 40 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Editura: BASIC BOOKS
Colecția Basic Books
Notă biografică
George
Chaunceyis
a
professor
of
history
at
Columbia
University
and
the
Director
of
the
Columbia
Research
Initiative
on
the
Global
History
of
Sexualities.Gay
New
York,
his
first
book,
won
the
distinguished
Turner
and
Curti
Awards
from
the
Organization
of
American
Historians,
theLos
Angeles
TimesBook
Prize,
and
the
Lambda
Literary
Award.
He
is
also
the
author
ofWhy
Marriage?Chauncey
lives
in
New
York
City.
Recenzii
"Monumental...a
vital
achievement
in
redefining
and
reassessing
gay
history."—Washington
Post
"One of the most fascinating works of American social history I've ever read."—Frank Rich, New York Times
"A first-rate book of history...about all urban life, telling us as much about the heterosexual world as about the homosexual one."—New York Times
"A stunning contribution not only to gay history, but to the study of urban life, class, gender--and heterosexuality."—Kirkus
"Gay New York isn't just the definitive history of gays in New York from 1890 through 1940; it's also a wonderful account of the metropolitan character of modern gayness itself."—L.A. Times
"A brilliantly researched gift of history...unassailable."—Boston Globe
"A brilliant ethnographic analysis."—The Nation
"The impact made by this richly textured study is powerful."—Publisher's Weekly
"It's the fun, more than anything--the pleasure, the parties, the high jinks, the sex, and, yes, the love that gay men bear one another--that shines through so brightly...[a book of] erudition, discernment, sympathy, and wit."—New York Observer
"Chauncey's genius is the way he combines real lives and theory...a sharp and readable analysis of the way boundaries between 'normal' and 'abnormal' men bent and blurred in the early parts of the century."—Out
"Even if you are not a devotee of theory or history, you will want to read Gay New York for its profusion of anecdotal detail--its coordinates of a Gay Atlantis, a buried city of Everard Baths, Harlem drag balls, and Vaseline alley. Chauncey has found evidence of a gay world whose complexity and cohesion no previous historian dared to imagine."—Wayne Koestenbaum, Los Angeles Times
"One of the most fascinating works of American social history I've ever read."—Frank Rich, New York Times
"A first-rate book of history...about all urban life, telling us as much about the heterosexual world as about the homosexual one."—New York Times
"A stunning contribution not only to gay history, but to the study of urban life, class, gender--and heterosexuality."—Kirkus
"Gay New York isn't just the definitive history of gays in New York from 1890 through 1940; it's also a wonderful account of the metropolitan character of modern gayness itself."—L.A. Times
"A brilliantly researched gift of history...unassailable."—Boston Globe
"A brilliant ethnographic analysis."—The Nation
"The impact made by this richly textured study is powerful."—Publisher's Weekly
"It's the fun, more than anything--the pleasure, the parties, the high jinks, the sex, and, yes, the love that gay men bear one another--that shines through so brightly...[a book of] erudition, discernment, sympathy, and wit."—New York Observer
"Chauncey's genius is the way he combines real lives and theory...a sharp and readable analysis of the way boundaries between 'normal' and 'abnormal' men bent and blurred in the early parts of the century."—Out
"Even if you are not a devotee of theory or history, you will want to read Gay New York for its profusion of anecdotal detail--its coordinates of a Gay Atlantis, a buried city of Everard Baths, Harlem drag balls, and Vaseline alley. Chauncey has found evidence of a gay world whose complexity and cohesion no previous historian dared to imagine."—Wayne Koestenbaum, Los Angeles Times