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Male-Male Intimacy in Early America - Beyond Romantic Friendships (Hardcover)
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Male-Male Intimacy in Early America - Beyond Romantic Friendships (Hardcover)
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Previously hard-to-find information on homosexuality in early
Americanow in a convenient single volume! Few of us are familiar
with the gay men on General Washington's staff or among the leaders
of the new republic. Now, in the same way that Alex Haley's Roots
provided a generation of African Americans with an appreciation of
their history, Male-Male Intimacy in Early America: Beyond Romantic
Friendships will give many gay readers their first glimpse of
homosexuality as a theme in early American history. Honored as a
2007 Stonewall Book Award nonfiction selection, Male-Male Intimacy
in Early America is the first book to provide a comprehensive
overview of the role of homosexual activity among American men in
the early years of American history. This single source brings
together information that has until now been widely scattered in
journals and distant archives. The book draws on personal letters,
diaries, court records, and contemporary publications to examine
the role of homosexual activity in the lives of American men in the
Colonial period and in the early years of the new republic. The
author scoured research that was published in contemporary journals
and also conducted his own research in over a dozen US archives,
ranging from the Library of Congress to the Huntington Library,
from the United Military Academy Archives to the Missouri
Historical Society. Male-Male Intimacy in Early America explores:
the role of the open frontier and the unregulated seas as places of
refuge for men who would not enter into heterosexual relationships
the sexual lives of American Indiansparticularly the berdache
traditionand how the stereotypes associated with American Indian
sexuality molded white America's attitudes toward homosexuality
homosexuality in slave narrativesand the homosexual subtexts of
racist minstrel show lyrics the formation of European gay
communities during American colonial times, with an emphasis on
Berlin, Paris, and Londonwith English translations of material
previously available only in German or French! homosexuality as
presented in eighteenth-century novels popular with American
readers, plus information on homosexuality that was published in
medical treatises of the period United States Army and Navy
courts-martial that focused on sodomy the sublimation of
homosexuality by religious revival movements of the early
nineteenth century, particularly among Quakers, Mormons, and Oneida
Perfectionists social groups as a perceived cover for homosexual
activity, with an emphasis on the Masonic Order non-procreative
sexuality as a theme and as a threat during the American revolution
the West in American literary traditionand the role of popular
writers such as James Fenimore Cooper and Davy Crockett in creating
the myth of individual sexual freedom on the margins of American
society Author William Benemann rejects Foucault's contention that
homosexuality is an artificial construct created by medico-legal
authorities in the latter half of the nineteenth century. He
recognizes that men have been sexually attracted to other men
throughout American history, and in this book, examines their
historical options for expressing that attraction. He also
addresses related issues surrounding race and gender expectations,
population and migration patterns, vocational choice, and
information exchange. Written in a straightforward style that can
easily be understood by lay readers, Male-Male Intimacy in Early
America is an ideal choice for educators, students, and individuals
interested in this unexplored area of American history and
sexuality studies.
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