Men without Maps : Some Gay Males of the Generation before Stonewall / John Ibson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ibson, John, Author.

Series:

Chicago scholarship online.

Chicago scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gay men--United States--History--20th century.

Gay men.

Gay couples--United States--History--20th century.

Gay couples.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (164 pages)

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

In Men without Maps, John Ibson uncovers the experiences of men after World War II who had same-sex desires but few affirmative models of how to build identities and relationships. Though heterosexual men had plenty of cultural maps-provided by nearly every engine of social and popular culture-gay men mostly lacked such guides in the years before parades, organizations, and publications for queer persons. Surveying the years from shortly before the war up to the gay rights movement of the late 1960s and early '70s, Ibson considers male couples, who balanced domestic contentment with exterior repression, as well as single men, whose solitary lives illuminate unexplored aspects of the queer experience. Men without Maps shows how, in spite of the obstacles they faced, midcentury gay men found ways to assemble their lives and senses of self at a time of limited acceptance.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction: Together and Alone-Self- Definition without Many Models

Part 1. The Real Outlaws: The Male Couple before Gay Liberation

Part 2. Solitary Men: Loneliness and Masculinity

Afterword: Darkness before Dawn-Being a Gay Male in Midcentury America

Acknowledgments

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2019.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780226656250

022665625X

OCLC:

1120698185