The Resource The straight state : sexuality and citizenship in twentieth-century America, Margot Canaday, (electronic book)
The straight state : sexuality and citizenship in twentieth-century America, Margot Canaday, (electronic book)
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The item The straight state : sexuality and citizenship in twentieth-century America, Margot Canaday, (electronic book) represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Liverpool.This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
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The item The straight state : sexuality and citizenship in twentieth-century America, Margot Canaday, (electronic book) represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Liverpool.
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- Summary
- The Straight State is the most expansive study of the federal regulation of homosexuality yet written. Unearthing startling new evidence from the National Archives, Margot Canaday shows how the state systematically came to penalize homosexuality, giving rise to a regime of second-class citizenship that sexual minorities still live under today. Canaday looks at three key arenas of government control--immigration, the military, and welfare--and demonstrates how federal enforcement of sexual norms emerged with the rise of the modern bureaucratic state. She begins at the turn of the twentieth cent
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xiv, 277 p.
- Contents
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- Immigration. "A new species of undesirable immigrant" : perverse aliens and the limits of the law, 1900-1924
- Military. "We are merely concerned with the fact of sodomy" : managing sexual stigma in the World War I-era military, 1917-1933
- Welfare. "Most fags are floaters" : the problem of "unattached persons" during the early New Deal, 1933-1935
- Welfare. "With the ugly word written across it" : homo-hetero binarism, federal welfare policy, and the 1944 GI Bill
- Military. "Finding a home in the Army" : women's integration, homosexual tendencies, and the Cold War military, 1947-1959
- Immigration. "Who is a homosexual?" : the consolidation of sexual identities in mid-twentieth-century immigration law, 1952-1983
- Label
- The straight state : sexuality and citizenship in twentieth-century America
- Title
- The straight state
- Title remainder
- sexuality and citizenship in twentieth-century America
- Statement of responsibility
- Margot Canaday
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- The Straight State is the most expansive study of the federal regulation of homosexuality yet written. Unearthing startling new evidence from the National Archives, Margot Canaday shows how the state systematically came to penalize homosexuality, giving rise to a regime of second-class citizenship that sexual minorities still live under today. Canaday looks at three key arenas of government control--immigration, the military, and welfare--and demonstrates how federal enforcement of sexual norms emerged with the rise of the modern bureaucratic state. She begins at the turn of the twentieth cent
- Cataloging source
- NyNyACL
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Canaday, Margot
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
-
- theses
- bibliography
- Series statement
- Politics and society in twentieth-century America
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Homosexuality
- Homosexuality
- Political rights
- United States
- Label
- The straight state : sexuality and citizenship in twentieth-century America, Margot Canaday, (electronic book)
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- mixed
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Immigration. "A new species of undesirable immigrant" : perverse aliens and the limits of the law, 1900-1924 -- Military. "We are merely concerned with the fact of sodomy" : managing sexual stigma in the World War I-era military, 1917-1933 -- Welfare. "Most fags are floaters" : the problem of "unattached persons" during the early New Deal, 1933-1935 -- Welfare. "With the ugly word written across it" : homo-hetero binarism, federal welfare policy, and the 1944 GI Bill -- Military. "Finding a home in the Army" : women's integration, homosexual tendencies, and the Cold War military, 1947-1959 -- Immigration. "Who is a homosexual?" : the consolidation of sexual identities in mid-twentieth-century immigration law, 1952-1983
- Control code
- MIU01000000000000011661704
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- xiv, 277 p.
- File format
- multiple file formats
- Form of item
- electronic
- Governing access note
- ACLS e-books permit unlimited multi-user access
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Other physical details
- ill.
- Quality assurance targets
- unknown
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Reproduction note
- Electronic resource.
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- Label
- The straight state : sexuality and citizenship in twentieth-century America, Margot Canaday, (electronic book)
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- mixed
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Immigration. "A new species of undesirable immigrant" : perverse aliens and the limits of the law, 1900-1924 -- Military. "We are merely concerned with the fact of sodomy" : managing sexual stigma in the World War I-era military, 1917-1933 -- Welfare. "Most fags are floaters" : the problem of "unattached persons" during the early New Deal, 1933-1935 -- Welfare. "With the ugly word written across it" : homo-hetero binarism, federal welfare policy, and the 1944 GI Bill -- Military. "Finding a home in the Army" : women's integration, homosexual tendencies, and the Cold War military, 1947-1959 -- Immigration. "Who is a homosexual?" : the consolidation of sexual identities in mid-twentieth-century immigration law, 1952-1983
- Control code
- MIU01000000000000011661704
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- xiv, 277 p.
- File format
- multiple file formats
- Form of item
- electronic
- Governing access note
- ACLS e-books permit unlimited multi-user access
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Other physical details
- ill.
- Quality assurance targets
- unknown
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Reproduction note
- Electronic resource.
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
Subject
- Political rights -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- United States -- Social policy -- 1980-1993
- Homosexuality -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Homosexuality -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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- Online access with JISC subscription agreement: ACLS Humanities E-Books
- Politics and society in twentieth-century America
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