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The Gay Past: A Collection of Historical Essays

Editat de Salvatore J. Licata, Robert P. Petersen
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 1986
Fascinating reading on the plight of gay men and women through the ages. The contributors to this compassionate book document how society has made life difficult and even dangerous for homosexual people. Through narrative history as well as biography, these essays trace the legal, social, and physical consequences of this oppression.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780918393111
ISBN-10: 0918393116
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 152 x 212 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.56 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Cuprins

ContentsForeword
  • Introduction
  • The Myth of Lesbian Impunity: Capital Laws From 1270 to 1791
  • A Lesbian Execution in Germany, 1721: The Trial Records
  • Sodomy and Heresy in Early Modern Switzerland
  • Conceptions of Homosexuality and Sodomy in Western Europe
  • Ho Hum, Another Work of the Devil: Buggery and Sodomy in Early Stuart England
  • Defining Sodomy in Seventeenth-Century Massachusetts
  • “Writhing Bedfellows”: 1826--Two Young Men From Antebellum South Carolina’s Ruling Elite Share “Extravagant Delight”
  • The “Third Sex” Theory of Karl Heinrich Ulrichs
  • Inverts, Perverts, and Mary-Annes: Male Prostitution and the Regulation of Homosexuality in England in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
  • “Stigmata of Degeneration”: Prisoner Markings in Nazi Concentration Camps
  • The Pink Triangle: The Persecution of Homosexual Males in Concentration Camps in Nazi Germany
  • The Homosexual Rights Movement in the United States: A Traditionally Overlooked Area of American History
  • Homosexuality in History: An Annotated Bibliography
  • Index

Descriere

Here is a provocative volume on the homosexual experience through the ages. It serves as a substantial contribution to the growing body of knowledge on the history of homosexuality, including the treatment of homosexuals in Western societies from medieval times to the present. Scholars document the history of homosexuality by exploring how socity has made life difficult and even dangerous for homosexual men and women.