Long Before Stonewall : Histories of Same-Sex Sexuality in Early America / ed. by Thomas A. Foster.
Brown, Tracy, contributor.; Crain, Caleb, contributor.; D'Emilio, John, contributor.; Faderman, Lillian, contributor.; Foster, Thomas A., contributor.; Foster, Thomas A., editor.; Fur, Gunlög, contributor.; Godbeer, Richard, contributor.; Gutiérrez, Ramón A., contributor.; Kann, Mark E., contributor.; Lyons, Clare A., contributor.; Mandell, Laura, contributor.; Moore, Lisa L., contributor.; Myles, Anne G., contributor.; Reis, Elizabeth, contributor.; Saillant, John, contributor.; Shapiro, Stephen, contributor.
2007
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Long Before Stonewall : Histories of Same-Sex Sexuality in Early America / ed. by Thomas A. Foster.
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9780814728147
DOI
https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814728147.001.0001
Published
New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2007]
Copyright
©2007
Language
English
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In English.
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1 online resource
Item Number
10.18574/nyu/9780814728147.001.0001 doi
Dewey Decimal Classification
306.76/6097309033
Summary
2007 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleAlthough the 1969 Stonewall riots in New York City symbolically mark the start of the gay rights movement, individuals came together long before the modern era to express their same-sex romantic and sexual attraction toward one another, and in a myriad of ways. Some reflected on their desires in quiet solitude, while others endured verbal, physical, and legal harassment for publicly expressing homosexual interest through words or actions.Long Before Stonewall seeks to uncover the many iterations of same-sex desire in colonial America and the early Republic, as well as to expand the scope of how we define and recognize homosocial behavior. Thomas A. Foster has assembled a pathbreaking, interdisciplinary collection of original and classic essays that explore topics ranging from homoerotic imagery of black men to prison reform to the development of sexual orientations. This collection spans a regional and temporal breadth that stretches from the colonial Southwest to Quaker communities in New England. It also includes a challenge to commonly accepted understandings of the Native American berdache. Throughout, connections of race, class, status, and gender are emphasized, exposing the deep foundations on which modern sexual political movements and identities are built.
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Brown, Tracy, contributor.
Crain, Caleb, contributor.
D'Emilio, John, contributor.
Faderman, Lillian, contributor.
Foster, Thomas A., contributor.
Foster, Thomas A., editor.
Fur, Gunlög, contributor.
Godbeer, Richard, contributor.
Gutiérrez, Ramón A., contributor.
Kann, Mark E., contributor.
Lyons, Clare A., contributor.
Mandell, Laura, contributor.
Moore, Lisa L., contributor.
Myles, Anne G., contributor.
Reis, Elizabeth, contributor.
Saillant, John, contributor.
Shapiro, Stephen, contributor.
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Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction Long Before Stonewall
Part I Colonial Native Americas
Chapter 1 Warfare, Homosexuality, and Gender Status Among American Indian Men in the Southwest
Chapter 2 Weibe-Town and the Delawares-as-Women: Gender-Crossing and Same-Sex Relations in Eighteenth-Century Northeastern Indian Culture
Chapter 3 "Abominable Sin" in Colonial New Mexico: Spanish and Pueblo Perceptions of Same-Sex Sexuality
Part II Colonial British America
Chapter 4 "The Cry of Sodom" Discourse, Intercourse, and Desire in Colonial New England
Chapter 5 Border Crossings The Queer Erotics of Quakerism in Seventeenth-Century New England
Chapter 6 Hermaphrodites and "Same-Sex" Sex in Early America
Chapter 7 Mapping an Atlantic Sexual Culture: Homoeroticism in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia
Part III Romantic Bonds in the Early Republic
Chapter 8 An Excerpt from Surpassing the Love of Men
Chapter 9 Leander, Lorenzo, and Castalio: An Early American Romance
Chapter 10 The Swan of Litchfield: Sarah Pierce and the Lesbian Landscape Poem
Part IV Reformers in the New Nation
Chapter 11 Sexual Desire, Crime, and Punishment in the Early Republic
Chapter 12 The Black Body Erotic and the Republican Body Politic, 1790-1820
Chapter 13 What's Sex Got to Do with It? Marriage versus Circulation in The Pennsylvania Magazine, 1775-1776
Chapter 14 In a French Position Radical Pornography and Homoerotic Society in Charles Brockden Brown's Ormond or the Secret Witness
Afterword
Contributors
Index
About the Editor

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