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An American Obsession - Science, Medicine, and Homosexuality in Modern Society (Paperback, 2nd Ed.)
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An American Obsession - Science, Medicine, and Homosexuality in Modern Society (Paperback, 2nd Ed.)
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Drawing on original research from medical texts, psychiatric case
histories, pioneering statistical surveys, first-person accounts,
legal cases, sensationalist journalism, and legislative debates,
Jennifer Terry has written a nuanced and textured history of how
the century-old obsession with homosexuality is deeply tied to
changing American anxieties about social and sexual order in the
modern age.
Terry's overarching argument is compelling: that homosexuality
served as a marker of the "abnormal" against which malleable,
tenuous, and often contradictory concepts of the "normal" were
defined. One of the few histories to take into consideration
homosexuality in both women and men, Terry's work also stands out
in its refusal to erase the agency of people classified as
abnormal. She documents the myriad ways that gays, lesbians, and
other sexual minorities have coauthored, resisted, and transformed
the most powerful and authoritative modern truths about sex.
Proposing this history as a "useable past," "An American Obsession"
is an indispensable contribution to the study of American cultural
history.
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