Toward Stonewall: Homosexuality and Society in the Modern Western World - Hardcover

Nicholas C. Edsall

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0813922119 ISBN 13: 9780813922119

Publisher: University of Virginia Press, 2003

Synopsis

As recently as the 1970s, gay and lesbian history was a relatively unexplored field for serious scholars. Since then however, there has been an enormous growth in gay and lesbian studies. This book provides a synthesis of this literature, drawing upon popular and scholarly writings.

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Review:

More than thirty years after Stonewall, we have unmanageable numbers of articles and books on different countries and periods, so we are ready for, and indeed have a genuine need for, a synthetic narrative and analysis. No one else has undertaken such a project in a scholarly spirit. Toward Stonewall makes an original and substantial contribution to the field of gay and lesbian studies.

--Jeffrey Merrick, Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, and coeditor of Homosexuality in French History and Culture

About the Author:

Nicholas C. Edsall is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Virginia and the author of Richard Cobden: Independent Radical.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0813922119
• ISBN 13: 9780813922119
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 384