An American Obsession: Science, Medicine, and Homosexuality in Modern Society

by Jennifer Terry

Book Overview

Drawing on original research from medical texts, psychiatric case histories, pioneering statistical surveys, first-person accounts, legal cases, sensationalist journalism, and legislative debates, Jennifer Terry has written a nuanced and textured history of how the century-old obsession with homosexuality is deeply tied to changing American anxieties about social and sexual order in the modern age.

Terry's overarching argument is compelling:...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226793672
• ISBN13: 9780226793672
• Release Date: December 1999
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 551 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"