Take the Young Stranger by the Hand - Same-Sex Relations and the YMCA

List of IllustrationsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction 1: From Urban Pietism to Sex Education 2: Intense Friendship 3: Singleness and the Consecrated Secretary 4: Marriage and the Sacrificial "Y Wife" 5: Women and the Young Men's Christian Association 6: Getting Physical 7: Cruising Epilogue App. 1: Analysis of Quantitative Sources on YMCA Secretarial Marital StatusApp. 2: Methodological Problems: Silences, the Spirit/Body Split, and the Denial of Cruising Notes Bibliography Index

Summary

The history of American gender and sexuality is examined here through a case study of the YMCA, the organization devoted to young men. After 1900 the YMCA seemed to grow hostile towards masculine love, reflecting the struggle and shifting societal mores about masculine friendship and intimacy.

Product details

• Authors: John Donald Gustav-Wrathall
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.06.2000
• EAN: 9780226907857
• ISBN: 978-0-226-90785-7
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 16 mm x 23 mm x 2 mm
• Weight: 454 g
• Series: Chicago Series on Sexuality, History & Society; Chicago Series on Sexuality, H; Chicago Series on Sexuality, History & Society; Chicago Sexuality Hist & Society SHS (CHUP); The Chicago Series on Sexuality, History, and Society
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political system