The straight state : sexuality and citizenship in twentieth-century America

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Label

The straight state : sexuality and citizenship in twentieth-century America

Title remainder

sexuality and citizenship in twentieth-century America

Statement of responsibility

Margot Canaday

Creator

• Canaday, Margot
• Canaday, Margot

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

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

Member of

• Online access with JISC subscription agreement: ACLS Humanities E-Books
• Politics and society in twentieth-century America

Cataloging source

NyNyACL

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• theses
• bibliography

Series statement

Politics and society in twentieth-century America