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Gay New York: gender, urban culture, and the makings of the gay male world, 1890-1940

George Chauncey c1994 © Hachette Book Group
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  • 9780465026210 (paper)
  • 9780465026333 (hardcover)
  • 9780786723355 (ebook)
Subject
  • LGBT/Queer Studies
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  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments (page ix)
  • Introduction (page 1)
  • PART I MALE (HOMO)SEXUAL PRACTICES AND IDENTITIES IN THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY
    • Chapter 1 The Bowery as Haven and Spectacle (page 33)
    • Chapter 2 The Fairy as an Intermediate Sex (page 47)
    • Chapter 3 Trade, Wolves, and the Boundaries of Normal Manhood (page 65)
    • Chapter 4 The Forging of Queer Identities and the Emergence of Heterosexuality in Middle‒Class Culture (page 99)
  • PART II THE MAKING OF THE GAY MALE WORLD
    • Chapter 5 Urban Culture and the Policing of the "City of Bachelors" (page 131)
    • Chapter 6 Lots of Friends at the YMCA: Rooming Houses, Cafeterias, and Other Gay Social Centers (page 151)
    • Chapter 7 "Privacy Could Only Be Had in Public": Forging a Gay World in the Streets (page 179)
    • Chapter 8 The Social World of the Baths (page 207)
    • Chapter 9 Building Gay Neighborhood Enclaves: The Village and Harlem (page 227)
  • PART III THE POLITICS OF GAY CULTURE
    • Chapter 10 The Double Life, Camp Culture, and the Making of a Collective Identity (page 271)
    • Chapter 11 "Pansies on Parade": Prohibition and the Spectacle of the Pansy (page 301)
    • Chapter 12 The Exclusion of Homosexuality from the Public Sphere in the 1930s (page 331)
  • Epilogue: The Strange Career of the Closet (page 355)
  • Note on Sources (page 365)
  • Notes (page 373)
  • Index (page 459)
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Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
JAH 84.2 (1997): 685-687 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0021-8723%28199709%2984%3A2%3C685%3AGNYGUC%3E2.0.CO%3B2-8
RAH 24.2 (1996): 304-309
AHR 100.5 (1995): 1706-1707 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-8762%28199512%29100%3A5%3C1706%3AGNYGUC%3E2.0.CO%3B2-C
AJS 100.6 (1995): 1636-1637 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-9602%28199505%29100%3A6%3C1636%3AGNYGUC%3E2.0.CO%3B2-9
CS 24.3 (1995): 355-356 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0094-3061%28199505%2924%3A3%3C355%3AGNYGUC%3E2.0.CO%3B2-E
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