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The queerness of home : gender, sexuality, and the politics of domesticity after World War II / Stephen Vider.
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vider, Stephen, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sexual minorities--Social conditions.
- Sexual minorities.
- Domestic relations.
- Sexual minorities--Legal status, laws, etc.
- Sexual minorities' families.
- Social conditions.
- LGBTQ+ families.
- LGBTQ+ people.
- Physical Description:
- 300 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- "Stephen Vider considers how the meanings of domesticity shifted for gay men and lesbians from the late 1960s to early 1980s, from a site of supposed isolation or deviance, to a source of identity, community, and pleasure. His manuscript reveals the multiple uses, appeals, and limits of domesticity for LGBTQ people in the post-World War II period, in their efforts to make social and sexual connections, and to appeal for expanded rights and freedoms. For example, the 1970s witnessed an efflorescence of gay communal households that proved to be seedbeds for alternative modes of domesticity, using the privacy of domestic space to achieve broader social and political changes. Vider brings a novel perspective to gay identity and culture, examining domesticity as a meeting point between practices and discourse, the local and national, the private and the public"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: pt. ONE INTEGRATIONS
- ch. One "Something of a Merit Badge": Lesbian and Gay Marriage and Romantic Adjustment
- ch. Two "Oh Hell, May Why Don't You People Have a Cookbook?": Camp Humor and Gay Domesticity
- pt. TWO REVOLUTIONS
- ch. Three "The Ultimate Extension of Gay Community": Communal Living, Gay Liberation, and the Reinvention of the Household
- ch. Four "Fantasy Is the Beginning of Creation": Imagining Lesbian Feminist Architecture
- pt. THREE REFORMS
- ch. Five "Some Hearts Go Hungering": Homelessness and the First Wave of LGBTQ Shelter Activism
- ch. Six "Picture a Coalition": Community Caregiving and the Politics of HIV/AIDS at Home.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780226808192
- 022680819X
- 9780226808369
- 022680836X
- OCLC:
- 1238128157
- Publisher Number:
- 99989770399
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