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Gay life and culture : a world history / edited by Robert Aldrich.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Universe, 2006Description: 384 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 27 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0789315114
  • 9780789315113
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.76609 22
LOC classification:
  • HQ76 .G329 2006
Online resources:
Contents:
1. Gay and lesbian history / Robert Aldrich -- 2. Homosexuality in Greece and Rome / Charles Hupperts -- 3. The Middle Ages / Bernd-Ulrich Hergemöller -- 4. Early modern Europe, 1400-1700 / Helmut Puff -- 5. Male homosexuality in the age of enlightenment and revolution, 1680-1850 / Michael Sibalis -- 6. Lesbians and their like in early modern Europe, 1500-1800 / Laura Gowing -- 7. The Americas : from colonial times to the 20th century / Brett Genny Beemyn -- 8. The homosexual age, 1870-1940 / Florence Tamagne -- 9. Public spheres and gay politics since the second World War / Domenico Rizzo -- 10. Loving women in the modern world / Leila J. Rupp -- 11. Discovering homosexuality : cross-cultural comparison and the history of sexuality / Lee Wallace -- 12. Homosexuality in the Middle East and North Africa / Vincenzo Patanè -- 13. Desire and same-sex intimacies in Asia / Adrian Carton -- 14. The gay world : 1980 to the present / Gert Hekma -- Notes and bibliographies -- Acknowledgments for illustrations -- Index.
Summary: "In the years since Stonewall, the world has witnessed an outpouring of research, critical inquiry, and re-interpretation of gay life and culture. This book draws on groundbreaking new material to present a comprehensive survey of all things gay, stretching back to ancient Sumeria and ranging to the present day. Critically acclaimed historian Robert Aldrich and ten leading scholars juxtapose thought-provoking essays with an extensive selection of images, many never before seen. This masterful combination reveals the story behind gay culture from the industrialized world to the remotest corners of tribal New Guinea. Among the contributors are noted names in GLBT studies such as Brett Beemyn (author of Bisexuality in the Lives of Men), Charles Hupperts (expert on classical antiquity at the University of Amsterdam), Helmut Puff (University of Michigan expert on the medieval world), and Florence Temagne (author of A History of Homosexuality in Europe). The book covers such topics as the Old Testament relationship between Jonathan and David, the Age of Confucius, Native American berdaches, Polynesian mahus, Berlin in the '20s, Stonewall and the disco-flavored hedonism that followed, and the advent of AIDS, Act Up, and Angels in America. This book is an important contribution to understanding what makes gay life and culture universal throughout human culture and across time."--Publisher description.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 364-377) and index.

1. Gay and lesbian history / Robert Aldrich -- 2. Homosexuality in Greece and Rome / Charles Hupperts -- 3. The Middle Ages / Bernd-Ulrich Hergemöller -- 4. Early modern Europe, 1400-1700 / Helmut Puff -- 5. Male homosexuality in the age of enlightenment and revolution, 1680-1850 / Michael Sibalis -- 6. Lesbians and their like in early modern Europe, 1500-1800 / Laura Gowing -- 7. The Americas : from colonial times to the 20th century / Brett Genny Beemyn -- 8. The homosexual age, 1870-1940 / Florence Tamagne -- 9. Public spheres and gay politics since the second World War / Domenico Rizzo -- 10. Loving women in the modern world / Leila J. Rupp -- 11. Discovering homosexuality : cross-cultural comparison and the history of sexuality / Lee Wallace -- 12. Homosexuality in the Middle East and North Africa / Vincenzo Patanè -- 13. Desire and same-sex intimacies in Asia / Adrian Carton -- 14. The gay world : 1980 to the present / Gert Hekma -- Notes and bibliographies -- Acknowledgments for illustrations -- Index.

"In the years since Stonewall, the world has witnessed an outpouring of research, critical inquiry, and re-interpretation of gay life and culture. This book draws on groundbreaking new material to present a comprehensive survey of all things gay, stretching back to ancient Sumeria and ranging to the present day. Critically acclaimed historian Robert Aldrich and ten leading scholars juxtapose thought-provoking essays with an extensive selection of images, many never before seen. This masterful combination reveals the story behind gay culture from the industrialized world to the remotest corners of tribal New Guinea. Among the contributors are noted names in GLBT studies such as Brett Beemyn (author of Bisexuality in the Lives of Men), Charles Hupperts (expert on classical antiquity at the University of Amsterdam), Helmut Puff (University of Michigan expert on the medieval world), and Florence Temagne (author of A History of Homosexuality in Europe). The book covers such topics as the Old Testament relationship between Jonathan and David, the Age of Confucius, Native American berdaches, Polynesian mahus, Berlin in the '20s, Stonewall and the disco-flavored hedonism that followed, and the advent of AIDS, Act Up, and Angels in America. This book is an important contribution to understanding what makes gay life and culture universal throughout human culture and across time."--Publisher description.

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