Hidden from History Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past

by Duberman, Martin Bauml; Vicinus, Martha; Chauncey, George

• ISBN13: 9780452010673
• ISBN10: 0452010675
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1990-11-01
• Publisher: Plume

Summary

Without peer, Hidden from History gathers together the works of the most exciting scholars in the dynamic field of homosexual studies, making this a ground-breaking and provocative work that reveals the history of gays and lesbians in different cultures and eras. Photos.

Table of Contents

Introduction
George Chauncey, Jr.
Martin Duberman
Martha Vicinus
The Ancient World
Revolutions, Universals, and Sexual Categories	17	(20)
John Boswell
Sex Before Sexuality: Pederasty, Politics, and Power in Classical Athens	37	(17)
David M. Halperin
Sexual Matters: Rethinking Sexuality in History	54	(13)
Robert Padgug
Preindustrial Societies
Lesbian Sexuality in Medieval and Early Modern Europe	67	(9)
Judith C. Brown
Homosexuality and the State in Late Imperial China	76	(14)
Vivien W. Ng
Homosexuality in the Renaissance: Behavior, Identity, and Artistic Expression	90	(16)
James M. Saslow
Lesbians in American Indian Cultures	106	(12)
Paula Gunn Allen
Male Love in Early Modern Japan: A Literary Depiction of the ``Youth''	118	(11)
Paul Gordon Schalow
The Birth of the Queen: Sodomy and the Emergence of Gender Equality in Modern Culture, 1660-1750	129	(12)
Randolph Trumbach
Sodomy in the Dutch Republic During the Eighteenth Century	141	(12)
Arend H. Huussen, Jr.
The Nineteenth Century
``Writhing Bedfellows'' in Antebellum South Carolina: Historical Interpretation and the Politics of Evidence	153	(16)
Martin Duberman
Knights-Errant and Gothic Seducers: The Representation of Male Friendship in Mid-Nineteenth-Century America	169	(14)
Robert K. Martin
``She Even Chewed Tobacco'': A Pictorial Narrative of Passing Women in America San Francisco Lesbian and Gay History Project	183	(12)
Inverts, Perverts, and Mary-Annes: Male Prostitution and the Regulation of Homosexuality in England in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries	195	(17)
Jeffrey Weeks
Distance and Desire: English Boarding School Friendships, 1870-1920	212	(21)
Martha Vicinus
Early Twentiety Century
Iconography of a Scandal: Political Cartoons and the Eulenburg Affair in Wilhelmin Germany	233	(31)
James D. Steakley
Discourses of Sexuality and Subjectivity: The New Woman, 1870-1936	264	(17)
Carroll Smith-Rosenberg
The Mythic Mannish Lesbian: Radclyffe Hall and the New Woman	281	(13)
Esther Newton
Christian Brotherhood or Sexual Perversion? Homosexual Identities and the Construction of Sexual Boundaries in the World War I Era	294	(24)
George Chauncey, Jr.
A Spectacle in Color: The Lesbian and Gay Subculture of Jazz Age Harlem	318	(14)
Eric Garber
Paris Lesbianism and the Politics of Reaction, 1900-1940	332	(15)
Shari Benstock
Russia's Gay Literature and Culture: The Impact of the October Revolution	347	(18)
Simon Karlinsky
Swastika, Pink Triangle, and Yellow Star: The Destruction of Sexology and the Persecution of Homosexuals in Nazi Germany	365	(18)
Erwin J. Haeberle
World War II and the Postwar Era
Marching to a Different Drummer: Lesbian and Gay GIs in World War II	383	(12)
Allan Berube
``Imagine My Surprise'': Women's Relationships in Mid-Twentieth Century America	395	(16)
Leila J. Rupp
Migrancy and Male Sexuality on the South African Gold Mines	411	(15)
T. Dunbar Moodie
Vivienne Ndatshe
British Sibuyi
Oral History and the Study of Sexuality in the Lesbian Community: Buffalo, New York, 1940-1960	426	(15)
Madeline Davis
Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy
Homosexuality, Homophobia, and Revolution: Notes Toward an Understanding of the Cuban Lesbian and Gay Male Experience	441	(15)
Lourdes Arguelles
B. Ruby Rich
Gay Politics and Community in San Francisco Since World War II	456	(21)
John D'Emilio
Notes	477	(99)
Notes on Contributors	576