| Growing Up Before Stonewall: Life Stories Of Some Gay Men Contributor(s): Nardi, Peter (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415101522 ISBN-13: 9780415101523 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $75.95 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 1994 Annotation: Eleven American gay men, from a wide variety of regions and social classes in the 1920s through the 1960s, give their accounts of trying to make sense of their identities in the years before the gay liberation movement--a time when society was far less tolerant of homosexuality than it is today. Illustrations. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Men's Studies - Social Science | Sociology - General |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 93020939 |
| Physical Information: 0.67" H x 5.44" W x 8.49" (0.54 lbs) 192 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Gay |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book tells the stories of 11 American gay men who tried to make sense of their identities in the years before the modern gay movement began. In their own words, these men recollect fascinating accounts of what it was like negotiate their desires within a social and psychological context in which homosexuality was marginalized. The editors carefully situate the lifestories in US culture before Stonewall and skillfully raises the issues and problems in presenting such stories. |