03780nam 2200721 a 450 991097371170332120240513170304.09786613058621978128305862912830586269780226793689022679368010.7208/9780226793689(CKB)2670000000067644(EBL)648154(OCoLC)701704594(SSID)ssj0000466900(PQKBManifestationID)11337321(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000466900(PQKBWorkID)10484745(PQKB)11301330(MiAaPQ)EBC648154(DE-B1597)535851(OCoLC)781311024(DE-B1597)9780226793689(Au-PeEL)EBL648154(CaPaEBR)ebr10438625(CaONFJC)MIL305862(Perlego)1840575(EXLCZ)99267000000006764419990308d1999 uy 0engurnn#---|u||utxtccrAn American obsession science, medicine and homosexuality in modern society /Jennifer Terry1st ed.Chicago University of Chicago Pressc19991 online resource (553 p.)Description based upon print version of record.9780226793672 0226793672 9780226793665 0226793664 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --CONTENTS --PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --INTRODUCTION --1. MODERNITY AND THE VEXING PRESENCE OF HOMOSEXUALS --2. MEDICALIZING HOMOSEXUALITY --3. THE UNITED STATES OF PERVERSION --4. PROGRESSIVE SCIENCE IN SEARCH OF SEXUAL NORMALITY --5. FLUID SEXES --6. THE COMMITTEE FOR THE STUDY OF SEX VARIANTS --7. SEX VARIANT SUBJECTS --8. POLICING HOMOSEXUALITY --9. DISEASE OR WAY OF LIFE? --10. PARENTS STRANGERS, A D OTHER DANGERS --11. FEAR OF A WORLD CONSPIRACY --12. DISCERNING ALLIES AND ENEMIES --EPILOGUE --NOTES --BIBLIOGRAPHY --INDEXDrawing 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.HomosexualityUnited StatesHistoryHomosexualityHistorySexologyUnited StatesHistoryHomosexualityHistory.HomosexualityHistory.SexologyHistory.307.76/6/0973Terry Jennifer1958-1805649MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910973711703321An American obsession4354376UNINA