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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 305
EAN: 9780465026210
ISBN: 0465026214
Label: Basic Books
Manufacturer: Basic Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 496
Publication Date: May 18, 1995
Publisher: Basic Books
Sales Rank: 197434
Studio: Basic Books
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Gay New York brilliantly shatters the myth that before the 1960s gay life existed only in the closet, where gay men were isolated, invisible, and self-hating. Based on years of research and access to a rich trove of diaries, legal records, and other unpublished documents, this book is a fascinating portrait of a gay world that is not supposed to have existed.
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Rating:  - An engaging and informative book
George Chauncey has written an engaging and informative book that provides entry into another American era's conceptualizations of what we today think of as homosexuality.
Gay New York takes great pains to debunk what Chauncey terms "the three myths" of isolation (gay men led solitary lives prior to Stonewall), invisibility (the gay world was difficult for isolated men to find) and internalization (gay men were self-loathing and universally accepted their denigration by the dominant ... Read More
Rating: - History at its Finest
George Chauncey gave himself an incredibly daunting task when he set out to reconstruct the sexual and gender landscape that Gay Male New Yorkers inhabited from the fin de sielce until the beginning of World War II.In order meet this challenge, and make sense of the awe inspiring amount of research he was able to amass, Chauncey finds it necessary to set himself up with a mega question--what did it mean to be a gay man in New York during the period in question?--with a series of much smaller ... Read More
Rating:  - A treasure chest of forgotten lore
This book was preceded in my conciousness by high critical praise and so I approached it with great expectations. And in great part it met these expectations.
More than anything else, this is a work of love, being the excavation of forgotten facts in the history of gay life as it was lived by decades of gay men, experiences now mostly forgotten or scattered in obscure and fading documents. It is an extraordinary work of social archeology, resurrecting a world I never knew exisited. And Chauncey ... Read More
Rating: - Fresh Thinking About Gay History
Chauncey's book offers serious and original thinking about queer history and about general urban history as well.Freed from the myths that have persisted about the place of homosexuals in U.S. society, the author paints a new portrait of what transpired just before the turn of the last century and into the early decades of the 20th century.
The most important idea he explains is that the concepts of "homosexuality" and "heterosexuality" as we understand them today didn't exist one hundred years ... Read More
Rating: - A new era in queer theory.
Great book that has ushered in queer theory. Great for gay history people and NYC history people. Great evidence. Great everything.
Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940 |
