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An American Obsession: Science, Medicine, and Homosexuality in Modern Society Jennifer Terry 1st edition
An American Obsession: Science, Medicine, and Homosexuality in Modern Society
Jennifer Terry
This text is a history of how the obsession with homosexuality is deeply tied to changing American anxieties about social and sexual order in the modern age. It argues that homosexuality served as a marker of the "abnormal" against which contradictory concepts of the "normal" were defined.
551 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | December 15, 1999 |
| ISBN13 | 9780226793665 |
| Publishers | The University of Chicago Press |
| Pages | 551 |
| Dimensions | 150 × 220 × 20 mm · 907 g |
| Language | English |