Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World 1890-1940
10 best books like Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World 1890-1940 (George Chauncey): Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia, Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community, Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue, Coming Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War Two, Manliness and Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and Race in the United States, 1880-1917, The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America, The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government, Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements, Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America, Homeward Bound: American Families In The Cold War Era
Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia
| Author | Kathleen M. Brown |
| ISBN | 0807846236 |
Kathleen Brown examines the origins of racism and slavery in British North America from the perspective of gender. Both a basic social relationship and a model for other social hierarchies, gender helped determine the construction of racial categories and the institution of slavery in Virginia....
| Author | Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy |
| ISBN | 0140235507 |
This ground-breaking book traces the emergence and growth of a lesbian community in Buffalo, New York, from the mid-1930s to the early 1960s. Based on thirteen years of research and drawing upon the oral histories of forty-five women, authors Kennedy and Davis explore butch-femme roles, coming out,...
Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue
| Author | Leslie Feinberg |
| ISBN | 0807079510 |
Those who have heard Leslie Feinberg speak in person know how powerful and inspiring s/he can be. In Trans Liberation, Feinberg has gathered a collection of hir speeches on trans liberation and its essential connection to the liberation of all people. This wonderfully immediate, impassioned, and...
| Author | Allan Bérubé |
| ISBN | 0743210719 |
This was a fascinating, and sometimes heartbreaking and infuriating, look at the GLBT men and women who came out while serving in the armed forces during WWII. It includes information on being gay on the home front as well.
In the 1940's, sodomy was a criminal act in the United States. Although...
| Author | Gail Bederman |
| ISBN | 0226041395 |
When former heavyweight champion Jim Jeffries came out of retirement on the fourth of July, 1910 to fight current black heavywight champion Jack Johnson in Reno, Nevada, he boasted that he was doing it "for the sole purpose of proving that a white man is better than a negro." Jeffries, though, was trounced....
| Author | Margot Canaday |
| ISBN | 0691135983 |
The Straight State is the most expansive study of the federal regulation of homosexuality yet written. Unearthing startling new evidence from the National Archives, Margot Canaday shows how the state systematically came to penalize homosexuality, giving rise to a regime of second-class citizenship...
| Author | David K. Johnson |
| ISBN | 0226401901 |
The McCarthy era is generally considered the worst period of political repression in recent American history. But while the famous question, "Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?" resonated in the halls of Congress, security officials were posing another question at least...
Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements
| Author | Charlene Carruthers |
| ISBN | 0807019410 |
A nationally recognized activist's 21st century guide to liberation through a Black queer feminist lens.
Appearing on The Roots' annual list, in 2017, as one of the most influential young African Americans, Carruthers--at age 32--is among a handful of high profile activists. Her debut...
Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America
| Author | Mae M. Ngai |
| ISBN | 0691124299 |
This book traces the origins of the "illegal alien" in American law and society, explaining why and how illegal migration became the central problem in U.S. immigration policy--a process that profoundly shaped ideas and practices about citizenship, race, and state authority in the twentieth century.
Mae...
Homeward Bound: American Families In The Cold War Era
| Author | Elaine Tyler May |
| ISBN | 0465030556 |
In the 1950s, the term ”containment” referred to the foreign policy-driven containment of Communism and atomic proliferation. Yet in Homeward Bound May demonstrates that there was also a domestic version of containment where the ”sphere of influence” was the home. Within its walls, potentially...
