Hidden from History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past (Meridian S)
Hidden from History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past is a landmark anthology edited by Martin B. Duberman, Martha Vicinus, and George Chauncey that brought together, for the first time, vital new scholarly work lifting the veil from the gay and lesbian past. Spanning thirty essays by leading researchers including John Boswell, Jeffrey Weeks, and John D'Emilio, the collection illuminates same-sex life across an extraordinary range of cultures and eras—from Plato's Athens and Renaissance Italy to Jazz Age Harlem, Revolutionary Russia, Nazi Germany, and post-World War II San Francisco—and across peoples as diverse as South African black miners, American Indians, Chinese courtiers, Japanese samurai, English schoolchildren, and urban working women. By demonstrating that definitions of 'normal' sexuality have varied widely across time and place, the anthology established the scholarly legitimacy of gay and lesbian history and set the agenda for decades of subsequent research.
Work Information
Thirty groundbreaking essays reveal how profoundly the meaning of sexuality has differed across cultures and centuries—restoring the hidden history of gay and lesbian lives.
Edited by Martin B. Duberman, Martha Vicinus, and George Chauncey, this anthology was the first work to bring together the emerging scholarship on gay and lesbian history in a single systematic collection. The thirty essays span from ancient Greece to the late twentieth century, illuminating same-sex lives across radically different cultures and societies. Contributors including John Boswell, Shari Benstock, Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, Jeffrey Weeks, and John D'Emilio show how sexual identity has taken vastly different forms depending on time and place. A winner of the Lambda Literary Award, the book was called 'a rich offering—solid and intriguing' by the Washington Post Book World, strongly recommended for history collections by Library Journal, and hailed as 'a landmark of a book and a landmark of ideas that will shatter ignorance and delusion' by Catharine Stimpson of New York University. It remains a foundational text in gay and lesbian studies.
Review Summaries
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Praised as a ground-breaking anthology that convincingly demonstrates how definitions of 'normal' sexuality differ widely from one culture to the next.
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The juxtaposition of diverse perspectives and research crossing boundaries of race, gender, culture, and time was praised for encouraging lively scholarly dialogue. Specialists acclaimed the work for convincingly demonstrating the legitimacy of gay and lesbian history and setting the agenda for future research.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Published
- 1990-11-01
- Pages
- 592 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 15.24 x 3.76 x 22.86 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780452010673
- ISBN-10
- 0452010675
- Price
- 7528 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Politics & Social Sciences/Social Sciences/Specific Demographics/Gay & Lesbian
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 Russia, Nazi Germany, Castro’s Cuba, post-World War II San Francisco—and peoples as varied as South African black miners, American Indians, Chinese courtiers, Japanese samurai, English schoolboys and girls, and urban working women. Gender and sexuality, repression and resistance, deviance and acceptance, identity and community—all are given a context in this fascinating work. "A landmark of a book and a landmark of ideas that will shatter ignorance and delusion."— Catharine Stimpson, University Professor and Dean Emerita of the Graduate School of Arts and Science at New York University “Ground-breaking.”— Publishers Weekly “The juxtaposition of diverse perspectives and research crossing boundaries of race, gender, culture, and time encourages a lively dialogue. Highly recommended for history collections, and especially gay studies.”— Library Journal
Martin Bauml Duberman is a historian, biographer, playwright, and gay rights activist. He has written more than 25 books, plays, and anthologies, including Hold Tight Gently: Michael Callen, Essex Hemphill, and the Battlefield of AIDS , Hidden from History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past, and Jews Queers Germans . He is Professor of History Emeritus at Herbert Lehman College. Martha Vicinus is an LGBT scholar, anti-war activist, and professor of English literature and Women's Studies. Her books include Lesbian Subjects: A Feminist Studies Reader , Hidden From History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past , and Suffer and Be Still: Women in the Victorian Age . She serves as the Eliza M. Mosher Distinguished University Professor of English, Women's Studies, and History at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. George Chauncey is a scholar of twentieth-century U.S. history and lesbian and gay history. He is co-director of the Yale Research Initiative on the History of Sexualities and has served as the chair of the History Department, chair of LGBT Studies, and Director of Graduate Studies and Undergraduate Studies for American Studies. He is author of Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940 and Why Marriage? The History Shaping Today’s Debate Over Gay Equality .
Reviews
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Perfect!
The book is in amazing condition! It’s been wonderfully taken care of, it made my day when I saw it!
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Excellent!
Excellent!
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Great book
Hidden from History offers part of the amazingly rich history of the TBLGQ community all over the world. It's an extraordinarily informative book that I read for a class, and I loved it.
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Very informative
Excellent book very informative and interesting read. Highly recommend
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A Good Read
Interesting mostly accurate, but you do need to use your own judgement.