An American obsession : science, medicine, and homosexuality in modern society / Jennifer Terry.
An American obsession : science, medicine, and homosexuality in modern society / Jennifer Terry.
An American obsession : science, medicine, and homosexuality in modern society / Jennifer Terry.
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Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c1999.
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N307.7660973/1
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English
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xiv, 537 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Ch. 1. Modernity and the Vexing Presence of Homosexuals -- Ch. 2. Medicalizing Homosexuality -- Ch. 3. The United States of Perversion -- Ch. 4. Progressive Science in Search of Sexual Normality -- Ch. 5. Fluid Sexes -- Ch. 6. The Committee for the Study of Sex Variants -- Ch. 7. Sex Variant Subject...
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Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c1999.
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Illinois
Date Published
c1999.
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"Drawing on original research from medical texts, psychiatric case histories, pioneering statistical surveys, first-person accounts, legal cases, sensationalist journalism, and legislative debates, Jennifer Terry has written a history of how the century-old obsession with homosexuality is deeply tied to changing American anxieties about social and...
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An American obsession : science, medicine, and homosexuality in modern society / Jennifer Terry.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 481-521) and index.
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c1999.
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N307.7660973/1
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74VvWR6eX3p3
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0226793672 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780226793665 (cl. : alk. paper)
0226793664 (cl. : alk. paper)
9780226793672 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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307.7660973
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991011938879702626
