An American Obsession
Subtitle: Science, Medicine, and Homosexuality in Modern Society
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press; University of Chicago Press
Published: December 15, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 551
ISBN-13: 9780226793672
Subjects: American history: from c 1900 -; Lesbian Studies; Social history; Social Science; Gender Studies; Sociology; USA; Gay Studies; Sociology - Urban; Social Science / Sociology / Urban; History; Homosexuality; Sexology; United States
First sentence: When they first appeared in the late nineteenth century, scientific writings on homosexuality offered meditations on the complex nature of sexuality in modernity and especially on the myriad social disruptions and cultural transformations with which modernity came to be associated.