University of Virginia Press, Date: 2006-02-23. Paperback. Used:Good. 2006. University of Virginia Press ISBN 0813925436 9780813925431 [US]

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Univ of Virginia Pr, Date: 2006. Paperback. New. 377 pages. 9.50x6.50x1.00 inches. 2006. Univ of Virginia Pr ISBN 0813925436 9780813925431 [GB]

ISBN10: 0813925436, ISBN13: 9780813925431, [publisher: University Of Virginia Press] Softcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - As recently as the 1970s, gay and lesbian history was a relatively unexplored field for serious scholars. The past quarter century, however, has seen enormous growth in gay and lesbian studies. The literature is now voluminous; it is also widely scattered and not always easily accessible. In Toward Stonewall, Nicholas Edsall provides a much-needed synthesis, drawing upon both scholarly and popular writings to chart the development of homosexual subcultures in the modern era and the uneasy place they have occupied in Western society.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 persecution of 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 sub-cultures in a succession of twentieth-century scenes and events--in pre-Nazi ...
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