Hidden from History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past

by JR. GEORGE BAUML DUBERMAN MARTIN & MARTHA VICINUS & CHAUNCEY

Book Overview

Winner of two Lambda Rising Awards This richly revealing anthology brings together for the first time the vital new scholarly studies now lifting the veil from the gay and lesbian past. Such notable researchers as John Boswell, Shari Benstock, Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, Jeffrey Weeks and John D'Emilio illuminate gay and lesbian life as it evolved in places as diverse as the Athens of Plato, Renaissance Italy, Victorian London, jazz Age Harlem, Revolutionary...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0452010675
• ISBN13: 9780452010673
• Release Date: November 1990
• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Length: 592 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.7" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

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This book is chockful of great monographs on gay and lesbian history. After a world-shaking introduction by all three editors, the book offers monographs from many periods in history. And not only is Western history profiled--there is also Asian gay history, and other non-European monographs as well. Everything is scholarly, and well-documented, and some of the information that you read in here is incredibly surprising! I am glad that a book like this finally exists, and, as a historian myself, know from this book that history is changing for the better by including the gay population and other minorities.