num_pages: 592
description: This richly revealing anthology brings together for the first time the vital new scholarly studies now lifting the veil from the gay and lesbian past. Such notable researchers as John Boswell, Shari Benstock, Jeffrey Weeks and John D'Emilio illuminate gay and lesbian life as it evolved in places as diverse as the Athens of Plato, Renaissance Italy, Victorian London, Jazz Age Harlem, Revolutionary Russia, Nazi Germany, Casto's Cuba - and peoples as varied as South African black miners, American Indians, Chinese courtiers, Japanese samurai, English schoolboys and girls, and urban working women. Gender and sexuality, repression and resistance, deviance and acceptance, identity and community - all are given a context in this fascinating work.
language: English
title: Hidden from History
titlecomplete: Hidden from History
genres: Gay, History, Sexuality, Historical, Lesbian, Academic, Queer, Nonfiction, Feminism, LGBT
ratings_count: 479
awards: awardedAt: 631180800000
name: Stonewall Book Award
category: Non-Fiction, awardedAt: 599644800000
name: Lambda Literary Award
category: Gay Anthology & Lesbian Anthology
publisher: Penguin Books Ltd