Description: Review[A]n ambitious, well-researched, and important study. Howard weaves together an impressive range of sources that map connections between postwar federal housing policies, debates about urban reform, ordinary suburbanites’ sex lives, and early homophile activism...At a moment when calls for political consensus and moderation are widespread, Howard’s analysis of 'moderation’s small-‘c’ conservative tendencies' and its potential to hamper struggles for social justice is sorely needed. ― History: Review of New Books[A]n original and ambitious study of postwar sexual politics in San Francisco and its suburbs..Bridging diverse subjects is Howard's attention to the question of sexual privacy, or, more specifically, the burgeoning assumption that nonnormative sexual practices and identities could be countenanced if they were relegated to the private sphere. . . . Howard's insights into the politics of sexua…condition info: Pages are unmarked. Has a sturdy binding with some shelf wear.
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EAN: 9780812251241
Book Title: N/A
Number of Pages: 392 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Closet and the Cul-De-Sac : the Politics of Sexual Privacy in Northern California
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Item Height: 1.3 in
Subject: Privacy, Lgbt Studies / General, United States / 20th Century, Sociology / General, Lgbt Studies / Gay Studies
Publication Year: 2019
Item Weight: 27.2 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 9.3 in
Author: Clayton Howard
Subject Area: Law, Social Science, History
Item Width: 7.4 in
Series: Politics and Culture in Modern America Ser.
Format: Hardcover