Straight State Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America

Name: Straight State Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America
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ISBN: 9780691149936

ISBN-10: 0691149933

ISBN-13: 9780691149936

Edition: 2009

Authors: Margot Canaday

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The Straight Stateis the most expansive study of the federal regulation of homosexuality yet written. Unearthing startling new evidence from the National Archives, Margot Canaday shows how the state systematically came to penalize homosexuality, giving rise to a regime of second-class citizenship that sexual minorities still live under today.Canaday looks at three key arenas of government control--immigration, the military, and welfare--and demonstrates how federal enforcement of sexual norms emerged with the rise of the modern bureaucratic state. She begins at the turn of the twentieth century when the state first stumbled upon evidence of sex and gender nonconformity, revealing how…

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List price: $20.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 7/5/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 296
Size: 6.26" wide x 9.17" long x 0.76" tall
Weight: 1.122
Language: English

Margot Canaday is assistant professor of history at Princeton University.



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Introduction



Nascent Policing



Immigration: "A New Species of Undesirable Immigrant": Perverse Aliens and the Limits of the Law, 1900-1924



Military: "We Are Merely Concerned with the Fact of Sodomy": Managing Sexual Stigma in the World War I-Era Military, 1917-1933



Welfare: "Most Fags Are Floaters": The Problem of "Unattached Persons" during the Early New Deal, 1933-1935



Explicit Regulation



Welfare: "With the Ugly Word Written across It": Homo-Hetero Binarism, Federal Welfare Policy, and the 1944 GI Bill



Military: "Finding a Home in the Army": Women's Integration, Homosexual Tendencies, and the Cold War Military, 1947-1959



Immigration: "Who Is a Homosexual?": The Consolidation of Sexual Identities in Mid-twentieth-century Immigration Law, 1952-1983


Conclusion


Index