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My desire for history : essays in gay, community, and labor history / by Allan Bérubé ; edited with an introduction by John D'Emilio and Estelle B. Freedman.

Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Bérubé, Allan.
Contributor:
D'Emilio, John.
Freedman, Estelle B., 1947-
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Gay men--United States--History.
Gay men.
Lesbians--United States--History.
Lesbians.
Homosexuality--United States--History.
Homosexuality.
LGBTQ+ history.
Bérubé, Allan.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (343 pages) : illustrations
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
Chapel Hill [N.C.] : University of North Carolina Press, c2011.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
This anthology pays tribute to Allan Berube (1946-2007), a self-taught historian and MacArthur Fellow who was a pioneer in the study of lesbian and gay history in the United States. D'Emilio and Freedman have selected sixteen of his most important essays which provide a retrospective on Berube's life and work while documenting the emergence of a grassroots lesbian and gay community history movement in the 1970s and 1980s.
Contents:
pt. 1. A community historian : exploring queer San Francisco
pt. 2. A national historian : reexamining World War II
pt. 3. A working-class intellectual : personal reflections on identitites
pt. 4. A labor historian : queering work and class.
Notes:
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
979-88-908857-5-3
979-88-9313-441-4
1-4696-0311-X
0-8078-7798-0
OCLC:
729252033

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