Long Before Stonewall
Subtitle: Histories of Same-Sex Sexuality in Early America
By: edited by Thomas A. Foster ; with an afterword by John D'Emilio
Contributors: Foster, Thomas A
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 405
ISBN-13: 9780814727508; 9780814727492
Subjects: Homosexuality -- United States -- History -- 18th century; Gays -- United States -- History -- 18th century
Description: "A major, ground-breaking study of early America. Readers will come away with a fresh sense of the centrality of sexuality to any understanding of the formation of the new Republic."--Martha Vicinus, author of Intimate Friends: Women Who Loved Women, 1778-1928 "This splendid collection, interdisciplinary but deeply historical, illustrates the maturation of lesbian and gay history as it has expanded its chronological and regional scope and its methodological depths." -Estelle B. Freedman, author of Feminism, Sexuality, and Politics Although the 1969 Stonewall riots in New York City symbolically mark the start of the gay rights movement, individuals came together long before the modern era to express their same-sex romantic and sexual attraction toward one another, and in a myriad of ways. Some reflected on their desires in quiet solitude, while others endured verbal, physical, and legal harassment for publicly expressing homosexual interest through words or actions. Long Before Stonewall seeks to uncover the many iterations of same-sex desire in colonial America and the early Republic, as well as to expand the scope of how we define and recognize homosocial behavior. Thomas A. Foster has assembled a path-breaking, interdisciplinary collection of original and classic essays that explore topics ranging from homoerotic imagery of black men to prison reform to the development of sexual orientations. This collection spans a regional and temporal breadth that stretches from the colonial Southwest to Quaker communities in New England. It also includes a challenge to commonly accepted understandings of the Native American berdache. Throughout, connections of race, class, status, and gender are emphasized, exposing the deep foundations on which modern sexual political movements and identities are built.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Introduction : long before Stonewall / Thomas A. Foster
pagenum: 1; label: Part I
title: Colonial Native Americans; label: 1
title: Warfare, homosexuality, and gender status among American Indian men in the southwest / Ramón A. Gutiérrez
pagenum: 19; label: 2
title: Weibe-Town and the Delawares-as-women : gender crossing and same-sex relations in eighteenth-century northeastern Indian culture / Gunlög Fur
pagenum: 32; label: 3
title: "Abominable sin" in colonial New Mexico : Spanish and Pueblo perceptions of same-sex sexuality / Tracy Brown
pagenum: 51; label: Part II
title: Colonial British America; label: 4
title: "The cry of Sodom" : discourse, intercourse, and desire in colonial New England / Richard Godbeer
pagenum: 81; label: 5
title: Border crossings : the queer erotics of Quakerism in seventeenth-century New England / Anne G. Myles
pagenum: 114; label: 6
title: Hermaphrodites and "same-sex" sex in early America / Elizabeth Reis
pagenum: 144; label: 7
title: Mapping an Atlantic sexual culture : homoeroticism in eighteenth-century Philadelphia / Clare A. Lyons
pagenum: 164; label: Part III
title: Romantic Bonds in the Early Republic; label: 8
title: An excerpt from Surpassing the love of men / Lillian Faderman
pagenum: 207; label: 9
title: Leander, Lorenzo, and Castalio : an early American romance / Caleb Crain
pagenum: 217; label: 10
title: The Swan of Litchfield : Sarah Pierce and the lesbian landscape poem / Lisa L. Moore
pagenum: 253; label: Part IV
title: Reformers in the New Nation; label: 11
title: Sexual desire, crime, and punishment in the early republic / Mark E. Kann
pagenum: 279; label: 12
title: The black body erotic and the republican body politic, 1790-1820 / John Saillant
pagenum: 303; label: 13
title: What's sex got to do with it? marriage versus circulation in The Pennsylvania Magazine, 1775-1776 / Laura Mandell
pagenum: 331; label: 14
title: In a French position : radical pornography and homoerotic society in Charles Brockden Brown's Ormond or the secret witness / Stephen Shapiro
pagenum: 357; title: Afterword / John D'Emilio
pagenum: 384