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Book SynopsisThis 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.
Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: Modernity and the Vexing Presence of Homosexuals Chapter 2: Medicalizing Homosexuality Chapter 3: The United States of Perversion Chapter 4: Progressive Science in Search of Sexual Normality Chapter 5: Fluid Sexes Chapter 6: The Committee for the Study of Sex Variants Chapter 7: Sex Variant Subjects Chapter 8: Policing Homosexuality Chapter 9: Disease or Way of Life? Chapter 10: Parents, Strangers, and Other Dangers Chapter 11: Fear of a World Conspiracy Chapter 12: Discerning Allies and Enemies Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index ??
