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Gay New York: gender, urban culture, and the makings of the gay male world, 1890-1940
George Chauncey
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Frontmatter
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Acknowledgments (page ix)
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Introduction (page 1)
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PART I MALE (HOMO)SEXUAL PRACTICES AND IDENTITIES IN THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY
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Chapter 1 The Bowery as Haven and Spectacle (page 33)
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Chapter 2 The Fairy as an Intermediate Sex (page 47)
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Chapter 3 Trade, Wolves, and the Boundaries of Normal Manhood (page 65)
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Chapter 4 The Forging of Queer Identities and the Emergence of Heterosexuality in Middle‒Class Culture (page 99)
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PART II THE MAKING OF THE GAY MALE WORLD
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Chapter 5 Urban Culture and the Policing of the "City of Bachelors" (page 131)
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Chapter 6 Lots of Friends at the YMCA: Rooming Houses, Cafeterias, and Other Gay Social Centers (page 151)
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Chapter 7 "Privacy Could Only Be Had in Public": Forging a Gay World in the Streets (page 179)
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Chapter 8 The Social World of the Baths (page 207)
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Chapter 9 Building Gay Neighborhood Enclaves: The Village and Harlem (page 227)
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PART III THE POLITICS OF GAY CULTURE
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Chapter 10 The Double Life, Camp Culture, and the Making of a Collective Identity (page 271)
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Chapter 11 "Pansies on Parade": Prohibition and the Spectacle of the Pansy (page 301)
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Chapter 12 The Exclusion of Homosexuality from the Public Sphere in the 1930s (page 331)
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Epilogue: The Strange Career of the Closet (page 355)
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Note on Sources (page 365)
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Notes (page 373)
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Index (page 459)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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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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Published: c1994
Publisher: Basic Books
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