Same-Sex Affairs : Constructing and Controlling Homosexuality in the Pacific Northwest /
At the turn of the twentieth century, two distinct, yet at times overlapping, male same-sex sexual subcultures had emerged in the Pacific Northwest: one among the men and boys who toiled in the region's logging, fishing, mining, farming, and railroad-building industries; the other among the you...
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2003.
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Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Résumé: | At the turn of the twentieth century, two distinct, yet at times overlapping, male same-sex sexual subcultures had emerged in the Pacific Northwest: one among the men and boys who toiled in the region's logging, fishing, mining, farming, and railroad-building industries; the other among the young urban white-collar workers of the emerging corporate order. Boag draws on police logs, court records, and newspaper accounts to create a vivid picture of the lives of these men and youths--their sexual practices, cultural networks, cross-class relations, variations in rural and urban experiences, and ethnic and racial influences. |
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Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (335 pages): illustrations |
ISBN: | 9780520930698 |