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Departing from deviance : a history of homosexual rights and emancipatory science in America /
The struggle to remove the stigma of sickness surrounding same-sex love has a long history. In 1973, the American Psychiatric Association removed homosexuality from its diagnostic classification of mental illness, but the groundwork for this pivotal decision was laid decades earlier. In this new stu...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2002.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The struggle to remove the stigma of sickness surrounding same-sex love has a long history. In 1973, the American Psychiatric Association removed homosexuality from its diagnostic classification of mental illness, but the groundwork for this pivotal decision was laid decades earlier. In this new study, Henry L. Minton looks back at the struggle of the American gay and lesbian activists who chose scientific research as a path for advancing homosexual rights. He traces the history of gay and lesbian emancipatory research from its early beginnings in the late nineteenth century to its role in cha. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xi, 344 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-335) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780226304458 0226304450 0226530442 9780226530444 0226530434 9780226530437 1282901907 9781282901902 9786612901904 661290190X |