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Online-Ressource (363 p)
ISBN:
9780226530444
Content:
The struggle to remove the stigma of sickness surrounding same-sex love has a long history. In 1973, the American Psychiatric Association removed homosexuality from its diagnostic classification of mental illness, but the groundwork for this pivotal decision was laid decades earlier. In this new study, Henry L. Minton looks back at the struggle of the American gay and lesbian activists who chose scientific research as a path for advancing homosexual rights. He traces the history of gay and lesbian emancipatory research from its early beginnings in the late nineteenth century to its role i
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Contents; Preface; 1. Introduction: Emancipatory Science and Homosexual Rights; 2. The Relationship between Homosexuals and Sex Researchers, 1870-1940; 3. Jan Gay and the Sex Variants Committee, 1935-41; 4. Homosexual Life Stories, 1935-41; 5. Henry and Gross and the Study of Sex Offenders, 1937-72; 6. Thomas Painter and the Study of Male Prostitution, 1935-43; Photographs; 7. Toward Participatory Research on Homosexuality: Painter, Kinsey, and the Kinsey Institute, 1943-73; 8. Evelyn Hooker, Frank Kameny, and Depathologizing Homosexuality, 1957-73; Epilogue: Beyond 1973; Notes; Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780226304458
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780226530437
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Departing from Deviance : A History of Homosexual Rights and Emancipatory Science in America
Language:
English
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