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Same-sex dynamics among nineteenth-century Americans : a Mormon example
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What were same-sex relationships like in America's heartland during the nineteenth century, far from the Bohemian enclaves of New York City and San Francisco? The extraordinary answer - that same-s...
What were same-sex relationships like in America's heartland during the nineteenth century, far from the Bohemian enclaves of New York City and San Francisco? The extraordinary answer - that same-sex intimacy was widely accepted - is found in D. Michael Quinn's Same-Sex Dynamics among Nineteenth-Century Americans, which traces the incidence of and response to same-sex behaviors in the United States to the midtwentieth century. It will be must reading for anyone interested in gay and lesbian issues and the changing concepts of friendship and sexuality. This book will be of special interest to historians, sociologists, anthropologists, religious leaders, psychiatrists, and physicians, as well as to Mormons. A respected scholar of Mormon social history, Quinn demonstrates the extent of early America's acceptance of same-sex intimacy, charting the nation's descent into homophobia by examining Mormonism as a case study of middle America.
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- Creator
- D. Michael Quinn
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- English
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- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [1996]
- ©1996
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- x, 477 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 025202205X, 9780252022050
- OCLC
- ocm32895125
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Cross-cultural perspective on same-sex dynamics -- The homosocial -- The homopastoral and homotactile -- The homoemotional and homoromantic -- The homomarital, gender-roles, and cross-dressing -- Same-sex couples, homoenvironmental subcultures, and the census -- The earliest community study of lesbians and gay males in America : Salt Lake City -- The coming-out of three prominent Mormons in 1919 -- Homoeroticism and sex crimes in early Mormonism and pioneer Utah -- Utah's judicial and medical responses : the Wilde case to 1918 -- From relative tolerance to homophobia in twentieth-century Mormonism
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- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints -- Doctrines -- History -- 19th century.
- Homosexuality -- Religious aspects -- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints -- History of doctrines -- 19th century.
- Latter Day Saints -- Sexual behavior -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
- Latter Day Saint gay people -- United States -- History -- 19th century.