Free Comrades
Subtitle: Anarchism and Homosexuality in the United States, 1895–1917
By: Terence Kissack
Publisher: AK Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Oakland, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9781904859116
Copyright date: 2008
Subjects: Anarchism; Gay & Lesbian studies; Social Science; Sociology; Gay Studies; Political Ideologies - Anarchism; United States - 19th Century/Turn of the Century; Social Science / Gay Studies; General; Multicultural Education
Description: By investigating public records, journals, and books published between 1895 and 1917, Terence Kissack expands the scope of the history of LGBT politics in the United States. The anarchists Kissack examines—such as Emma Goldman, Benjamin Tucker, and Alexander Berkman—defended the right of individuals to pursue same-sex relations, often challenging the conservative beliefs of their fellow anarchists as well as those outside the movement—police, clergy, and medical authorities—who condemned LGBT people.

In his book, Kissack examines the trial and imprisonment of Oscar Wilde, the life and work of Walt Whitman, periodicals including Tucker’s *Liberty* and Leonard Abbott’s *The Free Comrade*, and the frank treatment of homosexual relations in Berkman’s *Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist*. By defending the right to enter into same-sex partnerships free from social and governmental restraints, the anarchists posed a challenge to society still not met today.

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Table of contents: title: Acknowledgments; title: Introduction: Anarchism and the Politics of Homosexuality
pagenum: 1; label: 1
title: "The Right to Complete Liberty of Action": Anarchism, Sexuality, and American Culture
pagenum: 13; label: 2
title: The Wilde Ones: Oscar Wilde and Anarchist Sexual Politics
pagenum: 43; label: 3
title: Free Comrades: Whitman and the Shifting Grounds of the Politics of Homosexuality
pagenum: 69; label: 4
title: "Love's Dungeon Flower": Prison and the Politics of Homosexuality
pagenum: 97; label: 5
title: "'Urnings,' 'Lesbians,' and other strange topics": Sexology and the Politics of Homosexuality
pagenum: 127; label: 6
title: Anarchist Sexual Politics in the Post-World War I Period
pagenum: 153; title: Conclusion: Anarchism, Stonewall, and the Transformation of the Politics of Homosexuality
pagenum: 181; title: Notes
pagenum: 189; title: Bibliography
pagenum: 214; title: Index
pagenum: 230