Long before Stonewall [[electronic resource] ] : histories of same-sex sexuality in early America / / edited by Thomas A. Foster ; with an afterword by John D'Emilio

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910452114103321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : New York University Press, c2007
• ISBN: 0-8147-2867-7; 0-8147-2814-6; 1-4356-0729-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (416 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): FosterThomas A
• Disciplina: 306.76/6097309033
• Soggetti: Homosexuality - United States - History - 18th century; Gays - United States - History - 18th century; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction : long before Stonewall / Thomas A. Foster -- Warfare, homosexuality, and gender status among American Indian men in the southwest / Ramón A. Gutierrez -- Weibe-Town and the Delawares-as-women : gender crossing and same-sex relations in eighteenth-century northeastern Indian culture / Gunlög Fur -- "Abominable sin" in colonial New Mexico : Spanish and Pueblo perceptions of same-sex sexuality / Tracy Brown -- "The cry of Sodom" : discourse, intercourse, and desire in colonial New England / Richard Godbeer -- Border crossings : the queer erotics of Quakerism in seventeenth-century New England / Anne G. Myles -- Hermaphrodites and "same-sex" sex in early America / Elizabeth Reis -- Mapping an Atlantic sexual culture : homoeroticism in eighteenth-century Philadelphia / Clare A. Lyons -- An excerpt from Surpassing the love of men / Lillian Faderman -- Leander, Lorenzo, and Castalio : an early American romance / Caleb Crain -- The Swan of Litchfield : Sarah Pierce and the lesbian landscape poem / Lisa L. Moore -- Sexual desire, crime, and punishment in the early republic / Mark E. Kann -- The black body erotic and the republican body politic, 1790-1820 / John Saillant -- What's sex got to ; do with it? marriage versus circulation in The Pennsylvania Magazine, 1775-1776 / Laura Mandell -- In a French position : radical pornography and homoerotic society in Charles Brockden Brown's Ormond or the secret witness / Stephen Shapiro -- Afterword / John D'Emilio.