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- catalog abstract ""Drawing on original research from medical texts, psychiatric case histories, pioneering statistical surveys, first-person accounts, legal cases, sensationalist journalism, and legislative debates, Jennifer Terry has written a history of how the century-old obsession with homosexuality is deeply tied to changing American anxieties about social and sexual order in the modern age." "Terry's overarching argument is the homosexuality served as a maker of the "abnormal" against which malleable, tenuous, and often contradictory concepts of the "normal" were defined. One of the few histories to take into consideration homosexuality in both women and men, Terry's work also stands out in its refusal to erase the agency of people classified as abnormal. She documents the myriad ways that gays, lesbians, and other sexual minorities have coauthored, resisted, and transformed the most powerful and authoritative modern truths about sex."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11390482.
- catalog created "1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1999.".
- catalog description ""Drawing on original research from medical texts, psychiatric case histories, pioneering statistical surveys, first-person accounts, legal cases, sensationalist journalism, and legislative debates, Jennifer Terry has written a history of how the century-old obsession with homosexuality is deeply tied to changing American anxieties about social and sexual order in the modern age." "Terry's overarching argument is the homosexuality served as a maker of the "abnormal" against which malleable, tenuous, and often contradictory concepts of the "normal" were defined. One of the few histories to take into consideration homosexuality in both women and men, Terry's work also stands out in its refusal to erase the agency of people classified as abnormal. She documents the myriad ways that gays, lesbians, and other sexual minorities have coauthored, resisted, and transformed the most powerful and authoritative modern truths about sex."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p.481-521) and index.".
- catalog description "Modernity and the vexing presence of homosexuals -- Medicalizing homosexuality -- United States of perversion -- Progressive science in search of sexual normality -- Fluid sexes -- Committee for the study of sex variants -- Sex variant subjects -- Policing homosexuality -- Disease or way of life? -- Parents, strangers, and other dangers -- Fear of a world conspiracy -- Discerning allies and enemies.".
- catalog extent "xiv, 537 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0226793664 (cl. : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0226793672 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Chicago : University of Chicago Press,".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "2000 E-836".
- catalog subject "307.76/6/0973 21".
- catalog subject "HQ 76.3.U5 T329a 1999".
- catalog subject "HQ76.3.U5 T45 1999".
- catalog subject "Homosexuality History.".
- catalog subject "Homosexuality United States History.".
- catalog subject "Sexology United States History.".
- catalog subject "Sexual Behavior.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Modernity and the vexing presence of homosexuals -- Medicalizing homosexuality -- United States of perversion -- Progressive science in search of sexual normality -- Fluid sexes -- Committee for the study of sex variants -- Sex variant subjects -- Policing homosexuality -- Disease or way of life? -- Parents, strangers, and other dangers -- Fear of a world conspiracy -- Discerning allies and enemies.".
- catalog title "An American obsession : science, medicine, and homosexuality in modern society / Jennifer Terry.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".