Take the Young Stranger by the Hand Same-Sex Relations and the YMCA

Name: Take the Young Stranger by the Hand Same-Sex Relations and the YMCA
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ISBN: 9780226907840

ISBN-10: 0226907848

ISBN-13: 9780226907840

Edition: 1998

Authors: John Donald Gustav-Wrathall

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Now associated with family health clubs, the YMCA's bland image is the result of relentless outreach and the studied avoidance of controversy. But, as John Gustav-Wrathall shows in his revealing social history of the organization, the life of the YMCA has been filled with strife, tragedy, and irony, a life that itself reflects the struggle over the shifting societal mores regarding masculine friendship and intimacy. Take the Young Stranger by the Hand presents the YMCA as an institution of profound contradictions, reflective of society's views of same-sex love and sexuality. "Gustav-Wrathall's book offers an in-depth history of the origins and purposes of the Young Men's Christian…

Book details

List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 10/1/1998
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.254
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction



From Urban Pietism to Sex Education



Intense Friendship



Singleness and the Consecrated Secretary



Marriage and the Sacrificial "Y Wife"



Women and the Young Men's Christian Association



Getting Physical



Cruising Epilogue


App. 1: Analysis of Quantitative Sources on YMCA Secretarial Marital Status


App. 2: Methodological Problems: Silences, the Spirit/Body Split, and the Denial of Cruising


Notes


Bibliography


Index