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Language
  
English

ISBN
  
978-080704439-1

Author
  
Michael Bronski

OCLC
  
662402765

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Media type
  
Print

Originally published
  
2011

Country
  
United States of America

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Subject
  
LGBT history in the United States

Similar
  
Michael Bronski books, Homosexuality books

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A Queer History of the United States is a concise history of LGBT people in US society. It describes ways in which queer people have influenced the evolution of the United States, and how the culture of the United States has affected them.

Contents

A Queer History of the United States was published by Beacon Press in 2011. It was recognized with a Stonewall Book Award in 2012. The author, Michael Bronski, is a professor of Women's & Gender Studies at Dartmouth College, and professor of Practice in Media and Activism in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard University.

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Chapters

  1. The Persecuting Society
  2. Sexually Ambiguous Revolutions
  3. Imagining a Queer America
  4. A Democracy of Death and Art
  5. A Dangerous Purity
  6. Life on the Stage, Life in the City
  7. Production and Marketing of Gender
  8. Sex in the Trenches
  9. Visible Communities, Invisible Lives
  10. Revolt, Backlash, Resistance

References

A Queer History of the United States Wikipedia