Queerness of Home - Gender, Sexuality, and the Politics of Domesticity After World War II

"Stephen Vider considers how the meanings of domesticity shifted for gay men and lesbians from the late 1960s to early 1980s, from a site of supposed isolation or deviance, to a source of identity, community, and pleasure. His manuscript reveals the multiple uses, appeals, and limits of domesticity for LGBTQ people in the post-World War II period, in their efforts to make social and sexual connections, and to appeal for expanded rights and freedoms. For example, the 1970s witnessed an efflorescence of gay communal households that proved to be seedbeds for alternative modes of domesticity, using the privacy of domestic space to achieve broader social and political changes. Vider brings a novel perspective to gay identity and culture, examining domesticity as a meeting point between practices and discourse, the local and national, the private and the public"--

About the author

Stephen Vider is assistant professor of history and director of the Public History Initiative at Cornell University.

Product details

• Authors: Stephen Vider
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.01.2022
• EAN: 9780226808369
• ISBN: 978-0-226-80836-9
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; USA, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Marriage & Family, 20th Century, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, Of specific Gay & Lesbian interest, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Sociology: family & relationships, Family & relationships, Social issues & processes, United States of America, USA, Gay & Lesbian studies, History of the Americas, Relationships and families: advice and issues, Sex and sexuality, social aspects, Sociology: family and relationships, Relating to LGBTQ+ people, SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / General, Sexual Behaviour, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / LGBTQ+, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Sexuality, SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / Transgender Studies, HISTORY / LGBTQ+, LGBTQ+ Studies / topics, Gender studies: transgender & intersex