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An American Obsession : Science, Medicine, and Homosexuality in Modern Society.
Drawing on original research from medical texts, psychiatric case histories, pioneering statistical surveys, first-person accounts, legal cases, sensationalist journalism, and legislative debates, Jennifer Terry has written a nuanced and textured history of how the century-old obsession with homosex...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
1999.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Drawing on original research from medical texts, psychiatric case histories, pioneering statistical surveys, first-person accounts, legal cases, sensationalist journalism, and legislative debates, Jennifer Terry has written a nuanced and textured 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. Terry's overarching argument is compelling: that homosexuality served as a marker of the "abnormal" against which malleable, tenuous, and often contradictory concepts of the "normal & q. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (553 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780226793689 0226793680 1283058626 9781283058629 9786613058621 6613058629 |