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The Gilded Age Construction of Modern American Homophobia

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  1. Jay Hatheway
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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

    • Jay Hatheway
    Pages 1-10

  3. The Origins of a National Ideology up to the Civil War

    • Jay Hatheway
    Pages 11-32

  4. The Rise of an Urban Middle-Class in the Post–Civil War Era

    • Jay Hatheway
    Pages 33-48

  5. Nineteenth-Century Gay America

    • Jay Hatheway
    Pages 49-60

  6. A Period of Turmoil and Change

    • Jay Hatheway
    Pages 61-69

  7. Nineteenth-Century American Medicine

    • Jay Hatheway
    Pages 71-81

  8. The Debate Between Alienism and Neurology

    • Jay Hatheway
    Pages 83-100

  9. The German Discovery of the Homosexual

    • Jay Hatheway
    Pages 101-110

  10. American Physicians Discover the Homosexual

    • Jay Hatheway
    Pages 111-129

  11. The Homosexual and the Physician in the 1890s

    • Jay Hatheway
    Pages 131-155

  12. An Emerging Homosexual Identity During the Gilded Age

    • Jay Hatheway
    Pages 157-177

  13. The Limits of Congenital Homosexuality

    • Jay Hatheway
    Pages 179-191

  14. Conclusion

    • Jay Hatheway
    Pages 193-200

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 201-232
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The Gilded Age Construction of American Homophobia is an analysis of the negative response to the discovery of the homosexual in late Nineteenth century America. In this period of social distress, many Americans came to doubt the underlying assumptions of national progress. If the United States were to remain true to its promise of earthly perfection, then the forces of social disharmony had to be overcome. Homosexuality, however, challenged the very notions of order and progress. This book investigates the responses of the emergent medical community to this problem, and concludes with a discussion of how the negative reception of the homosexual impacted the future social conception of gay men and women.

About the author

JAY HATHEWAY is Associate Professor and Chair of the History Department at Edgewood College at Madison, Wisconsin. In addition to having authored Guilty as Charged: the True Story of a Gay Beret (2001), he also testified before the Congressional Subcommittee on Military Forces and Personnel in 1993: 'Gays and Lesbian in the Military'.

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