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The straight state: sexuality and citizenship in twentieth-century America

Margot Canaday
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  • Contents

  • Reviews

  • Frontmatter
  • List of Illustrations (page ix)
  • Acknowledgments (page xi)
  • Introduction (page 1)
  • PART I: Nascent Policing
    • 1. IMMIGRATION "A New Species of Undesirable Immigrant": Perverse Aliens and the Limits of the Law, 1900-1924 (page 19)
    • 2. MILITARY "We Are Merely Concerned with the Fact of Sodomy": Managing Sexual Stigma in the World War I-Era Military, 1917-1933 (page 55)
    • 3. WELFARE "Most Fags Are Floaters": The Problem of "Unattached Persons" during the Early New Deal, 1933-1935 (page 91)
  • PART II: Explicit Regulation
    • 4. WELFARE "With the Ugly Word Written across It": Homo-Hetero Binarism, Federal Welfare Policy, and the 1944 GI Bill (page 137)
    • 5. MILITARY "Finding a Home in the Army": Women's Integration, Homosexual Tendencies, and the Cold War Military, 1947-1959 (page 174)
    • 6. IMMIGRATION "Who Is a Homosexual": The Consolidation of Sexual Identities in Mid-twentieth-century Immigration Law, 1952-1983 (page 214)
  • Conclusion (page 255)
  • Index (page 265)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
FF 23.2 (Summer 2011): 209-215 http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/feminist_formations/v023/23.2.cantrell.html
JSocH 44.4 (Summer 2011): 1237-1239 http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_social_history/v044/44.4.white.html
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Published: c2009
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780691149936 (paper)
  • 9780691135984 (hardcover)
  • 9781400830428 (ebook)
Subject
  • LGBT/Queer Studies
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