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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Minton, Henry L.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2002.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: emancipatory science and homosexual rights
  • The relationship between homosexuals and sex researchers, 1870-1940
  • Jan Gay and the Sex Variants Committee, 1935-41
  • Homosexual life stories, 1935-41
  • Henry and Gross and the study of sex offenders, 1937-72
  • Thomas Painter and the study of male prostitution, 1935-43
  • Toward participatory research on homosexuality: Painter, Kinsey, and the Kinsey Institute, 1943-73
  • Evelyn Hooker, Frank Kameny, and depathologizing homosexuality, 1957-73
  • Epilogue: beyond 1973.