A look at American attitudes toward homosexuality from colonial days to the present

Gay/Lesbian Almanac: A New Documentary, in Which Is Contained, in Chronological Order, Evidence of the True and Fantastical History of Those Persons

Katz, Jonathan Ned

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Harper&Row

A look at American attitudes toward homosexuality from colonial days to the present

Gay/Lesbian Almanac: A New Documentary; In Which Is Contained, in Chronological Order, Evidence of the True and Fantastical History of Those Persons Now Called Lesbians and Gay Men

Self-Help

“Heterosexuality,” assumed to denote a universal sexual and cultural norm, has been largely exempt from critical scrutiny. In this boldly original work, Jonathan Ned Katz challenges the common notion that the distinction between heterosexuality and homosexuality has been a timeless one. Building on the history of medical terminology, he reveals that as late as 1923, the term “heterosexuality” referred to a "morbid sexual passion," and that its current usage emerged to legitimate men and women having sex for pleasure. Drawing on the works of Sigmund Freud, James Baldwin, Betty Friedan, and Michel Foucault, The Invention of Heterosexuality considers the effects of heterosexuality’s recently forged primacy on both scientific literature and popular culture. “Lively and provocative.”—Carol Tavris, New York Times Book Review “A valuable primer . . . misses no significant twists in sexual politics.”—Gary Indiana, Village Voice Literary Supplement “One of the most important—if not outright subversive—works to emerge from gay and lesbian studies in years.”—Mark Thompson, The Advocate

The Invention of Heterosexuality

History

Americas

University of Chicago Press

In Love Stories, Jonathan Ned Katz presents stories of men's intimacies with men during the nineteenth century—including those of Abraham Lincoln—drawing flesh-and-blood portraits of intimate friendships and the ways in which men struggled to name, define, and defend their sexual feelings for one another. In a world before "gay" and "straight" referred to sexuality, men like Walt Whitman and John Addington Symonds created new ways to name and conceive of their erotic relationships with other men. Katz, diving into history through diaries, letters, newspapers, and poems, offers us a clearer picture than ever before of how men navigated the uncharted territory of male-male desire.

Love Stories: Sex between Men before Homosexuality

"...a fascinating, beguiling book, unending both in its list of outrage and in its surprises." - Chicago Tribune Book World

Gay American History

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Avon/Books

A collection of documents provides a continuous chronicle of homosexuality in America, from colonial times to the present, and of the persecution of gay males and lesbians throughout American history

Gay American History: Lesbians and Gay Men in the U.S.A.

Literature & Fiction

Plume

Exploring the history of heterosexual and homosexual concepts, a study examines the works of such professionals as Freud and the influence of the church while challenging current opinions about sexual identity. 15,000 first printing. $10,000 ad/promo. Tour.

The Invention of Heterosexuality: 8

Dutton Adult

A chronology of two sexual worlds--early Colonial America and early modern United States--combines a wide variety of information, including personal testimony, news reports, medical records, songs, cartoons, and more, to portray the history of gays in America. Original.

Gay/Lesbian Almanac: A New Documentary

Carroll & Graf Pub.

<div> "On these pages, Eve Adams rises up, loves, rebels--her times, eerily resembling our own." --Joan Nestle, cofounder of the Lesbian Herstory Archives and author of A Restricted Country Historian Jonathan Ned Katz uncovers the forgotten story of radical lesbian Eve Adams and her long-lost book&nbsp;Lesbian Love&nbsp; Born Chawa Zloczewer into a Jewish family in Poland, Eve Adams emigrated to the United States in 1912,took a new name, befriended anarchists, sold radical publications, and ran lesbian-and-gay-friendly speakeasies in Chicago and New York. Then, in 1925, Adams risked all to write and publish a book titled&nbsp;Lesbian Love. Adams's bold activism caught the attention of the young J. Edgar Hoover and the US Bureau of Investigation, leading to her surveillance and arrest. Adams was convicted of publishing an obscene book and of attempted sex with a policewoman sent to entrap her. Adams was jailed and then deported back to Europe, and ultimately murdered by Nazis in Auschwitz. In The Daring Life and Dangerous Times of Eve Adams, acclaimed historian Jonathan Ned Katz has recovered the extraordinary story of an early, daring activist. Carefully distinguishing fact from fiction, Katz presents the first biography of Adams, and the publisher reprints the long-lost text of Adams's rare, unique book Lesbian Love </div>

The Daring Life and Dangerous Times of Eve Adams

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Chicago Review Press

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Gay/Lesbian Almanac: A New Documentary, in Which Is Contained, in Chronological Order, Evidence of the True and Fantastical History of Those Persons

Gay/Lesbian Almanac: A New Documentary; In Which Is Contained, in Chronological Order, Evidence of the True and Fantastical History of Those Persons Now Called Lesbians and Gay Men

The Invention of Heterosexuality

Love Stories: Sex between Men before Homosexuality

Love Stories: Sex between Men before Homosexuality

Gay American History

Gay American History: Lesbians and Gay Men in the U.S.A.

The Invention of Heterosexuality: 8

Gay/Lesbian Almanac: A New Documentary

The Daring Life and Dangerous Times of Eve Adams