Rethinking the Gay and Lesbian Movement

Name: Rethinking the Gay and Lesbian Movement
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ISBN: 9780415874106

ISBN-10: 0415874106

ISBN-13: 9780415874106

Edition: 2012

Authors: Marc Stein

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Rethinking the Gay and Lesbian Movementprovides a new narrative history of the gay and lesbian movement, drawing on primary research in the field as well as the research and writing of the best scholars in the field who have offered new perspectives on the history of the movement.Marc Stein begins with the background of the gay and lesbian movement in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and goes on to contextualize and narrate half a century worth of key legal and political developments. The author defines key terms and explains the focus on "gay and lesbian" history, which are conceptualized as a field of knowledge that intersects with "trans," "queer," and "intersex"…

Book details

List price: $39.99
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Publication date: 6/15/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Earl J. Hess is Stewart W. McClelland Chair in history at Lincoln Memorial University and has written many books on Civil War history, includingIn the Trenches at Petersburg: Field Fortifications and Confederate Defeat.Marc Stein is associate professor of history, women's studies, and sexuality studies at York University in Toronto. He is author ofCity of Sisterly and Brotherly Loves: Lesbian and Gay Philadelphiaand editor-in-chief of the award-winningEncyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History in America.



Editor's Series Introduction


Acknowledgments


Abbreviations


Introduction



Before the Movement, 1500-1940



Homophile Activism, 1940-69



Gay Liberation, Lesbian Feminism, and Gay and Lesbian Liberalism, 1969-73



Gay and Lesbian Activism in the Era of Conservative Backlash 1973-81



Gay and Lesbian Activism in the Age of AIDS, 1981-90



LGBT and Queer Activism Beyond 1990


Notes


Suggestions for Further Reading


Index