LEADER 03780nam 2200721 a 450 001 9910973711703321 005 20240513170304.0 010 $a9786613058621 010 $a9781283058629 010 $a1283058626 010 $a9780226793689 010 $a0226793680 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226793689 035 $a(CKB)2670000000067644 035 $a(EBL)648154 035 $a(OCoLC)701704594 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000466900 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11337321 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000466900 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10484745 035 $a(PQKB)11301330 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC648154 035 $a(DE-B1597)535851 035 $a(OCoLC)781311024 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226793689 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL648154 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10438625 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL305862 035 $a(Perlego)1840575 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000067644 100 $a19990308d1999 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 13$aAn American obsession $escience, medicine and homosexuality in modern society /$fJennifer Terry 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aChicago $cUniversity of Chicago Press$dc1999 215 $a1 online resource (553 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a9780226793672 311 0 $a0226793672 311 0 $a9780226793665 311 0 $a0226793664 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tCONTENTS --$tPREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --$tINTRODUCTION --$t1. MODERNITY AND THE VEXING PRESENCE OF HOMOSEXUALS --$t2. MEDICALIZING HOMOSEXUALITY --$t3. THE UNITED STATES OF PERVERSION --$t4. PROGRESSIVE SCIENCE IN SEARCH OF SEXUAL NORMALITY --$t5. FLUID SEXES --$t6. THE COMMITTEE FOR THE STUDY OF SEX VARIANTS --$t7. SEX VARIANT SUBJECTS --$t8. POLICING HOMOSEXUALITY --$t9. DISEASE OR WAY OF LIFE? --$t10. PARENTS STRANGERS, A D OTHER DANGERS --$t11. FEAR OF A WORLD CONSPIRACY --$t12. DISCERNING ALLIES AND ENEMIES --$tEPILOGUE --$tNOTES --$tBIBLIOGRAPHY --$tINDEX 330 $aDrawing 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. 606 $aHomosexuality$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aHomosexuality$xHistory 606 $aSexology$zUnited States$xHistory 615 0$aHomosexuality$xHistory. 615 0$aHomosexuality$xHistory. 615 0$aSexology$xHistory. 676 $a307.76/6/0973 700 $aTerry$b Jennifer$f1958-$01805649 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910973711703321 996 $aAn American obsession$94354376 997 $aUNINA