The straight state : sexuality and citizenship in twentieth-century America / Margot Canaday.
Canaday, Margot.
2009
HQ75.16.U6 C36 2009 (Mapit)
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Title
The straight state : sexuality and citizenship in twentieth-century America / Margot Canaday.
Author
Canaday, Margot.
ISBN
9780691135984 (alk. paper)
0691135983 (alk. paper)
Publication Details
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2009.
Language
English
Description
xiv, 277 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Call Number
HQ75.16.U6 C36 2009
Dewey Decimal Classification
323.3/2640973
Summary
"The Straight State is the most expansive study of the federal regulation of homosexuality yet written. Unearthing new evidence from the National Archives, Margot Canaday shows how the state systematically came to penalize homosexuality, giving rise to a regime of second-class citizenship that sexual minorities still live under today. Canaday looks at three key arenas of government control - immigration, the military, and welfare - and demonstrates how federal enforcement of sexual norms emerged with the rise of the modern bureaucratic state."--BOOK JACKET.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Series
Politics and society in twentieth-century America.
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Welfare. "Most fags are floaters" : the problem of "unattached persons" during the early New Deal, 1933-1935
Welfare. "With the ugly word written across it" : homo-hetero binarism, federal welfare policy, and the 1944 GI Bill
Military. "Finding a home in the Army" : women's integration, homosexual tendencies, and the Cold War military, 1947-1959
Immigration. "Who is a homosexual?" : the consolidation of sexual identities in mid-twentieth-century immigration law, 1952-1983.

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