Closet and the Cul-De-Sac - The Politics of Sexual Privacy in Northern California

Informationen zum Autor Clayton Howard is Associate Professor of History at the Ohio State University. Klappentext The Closet and the Cul-de-Sac chronicles the rise of sexual privacy as a fulcrum of American cultural politics, focusing on the history of gay rights in the San Francisco Bay Area from World War II to the dawn of the culture wars in the 1970s and exploring how government policies shaped the cultural politics of the moderate suburbs. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction. From the Straight State to the Culture Wars PART I. THE FAMILY AND THE STATE Chapter 1. Sex and the Crowded City Chapter 2. Public Policy and the Right to Privacy PART II. THE SUBURBAN METROPOLIS Chapter 3. Building Better Bedrooms Chapter 4. Normative Communities Chapter 5. Policing and Redeveloping the Queer City PART III. THE ERA OF SEXUAL PRIVACY Chapter 6. Gay Privacy Politics Chapter 7. A Moderate Revolution Chapter 8. Gay Rights, the Religious Right, and a Moderate Right to Privacy Epilogue. Seeking the Highest Meaning Notes Index Acknowledgments

Product details

• Authors: Clayton Howard
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2019
• EAN: 9780812251241
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-5124-1
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: Politics and Culture in Modern; Politics and Culture in Modern America; Politics and Culture in Modern
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous