Authors: Henry Abelove
ISBN-13: 9780816638260, ISBN-10: 0816638268
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Date Published: September 2003
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Henry Abelove is Willbur Fisk Osborne Professor of English and director of the Center for the Humanities at Wesleyan University. He is author of The Evangelist of Desire: John Wesley and the Methodists (1990) and coeditor (with Michele Aina Barale and David M. Halperin) of The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader (1993).
Maps the intricate relationship between culture, politics, and sexuality over three centuries - now in paperback!
Acknowledgments | ||
Introduction: Deep Gossip | ||
Freud, Male Homosexuality, and the Americans | 1 | |
Some Speculations on the History of Sexual Intercourse during the Long Eighteenth Century in England | 21 | |
From Thoreau to Queer Politics | 29 | |
The Queering of Lesbian/Gay History | 42 | |
American Studies, Queer Studies | 56 | |
New York City Gay Liberation and the Queer Commuters | 70 | |
Notes | 89 | |
Permissions | 103 |