{"product_id":"an-american-obsession-9780226793665","title":"An American Obsession","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface 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 ??","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51036588638551,"sku":"9780226793665","price":112.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780226793665.jpg?v=1750932448","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/an-american-obsession-9780226793665","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}