Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities
Subtitle: The Making of a Homosexual Minority in the United States, 1940-1970
By: John D'Emilio.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1983
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 257
Subjects: Gay liberation movement -- United States -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Columbia University, 1981.
Table of contents: label: Part I
title: Identity, Community, and Oppression: A Sexual Minority in the Making; label: 1
title: Homosexuality and American society: An overview
pagenum: 9; label: 2
title: Forging a group identity: World War II and the emergence of an urban gay subculture
pagenum: 23; label: 3
title: The bonds of oppression: Gay life in the 1950s
pagenum: 40; label: Part II
title: The 1950s: Radical Visions and Conformist Pressures; label: 4
title: Radical beginnings of the Mattachine society
pagenum: 57; label: 5
title: Retreat to respectability
pagenum: 75; label: 6
title: Dual identity and lesbian autonomy: The beginnings of separate organizing among women
pagenum: 92; label: 7
title: The quest for legitimacy
pagenum: 108; label: Part III
title: The 1960s: Civil Rights and the Pursuit of Equality; label: 8
title: Gay life in the public eye
pagenum: 129; label: 9
title: Civil rights and direct action: The new east coast militancy, 1961-1965
pagenum: 149; label: 10
title: The movement and the subculture converge: San Francisco during the early 1960s
pagenum: 176; label: 11
title: High hopes and modest gains
pagenum: 196; label: Part IV
title: The Liberation Impulse; label: 12
title: A new beginning: The birth of gay liberation
pagenum: 223; label: 13
title: Conclusion
pagenum: 240