Titre : | Coming Out : Homosexual Politics in Britain, from the Nineteenth Century to the Present | Type de document : | texte imprimé | Auteurs et autres personnes : | Jeffrey Weeks (1945-), Auteur | Edition : | 1979 | Editeur : | Londres [Royaume-Uni] : Quartet Books | Année : | 1977 | Importance : | 278 pages | ISBN/ISSN/EAN : | 978-0-7043-3175-4 | Langues : | Anglais (eng) | Catégories : | Sciences humaines:Sociologie, anthropologie
| Résumé : | Over the past twenty years, homosexuality (both male and female) has gradually become an acceptable subject for discussion and general reactions to it have changed a great deal, not only in Britain but throughout Western Europe and North America. But, even so, very little is known about the emergence of a homosexual identity and the activities of homosexuals in countering hostility.
Coming Out, making extensive use of new material, records the growth of homosexual law reform from the development of harsh legal and social oppression in the late nineteenth century to the tremendous impact of the gay liberation movement in the 1970s, placing the changing historical responses of and towards homosexuals in a broad social context. The result is a book which not only documents fully for the first time the work of the homosexual reformers, but also succeeds in illuminating wider attitudes towards sexuality in general. |
Coming Out : Homosexual Politics in Britain, from the Nineteenth Century to the Present [texte imprimé] / Jeffrey Weeks (1945-), Auteur . - 1979 . - Londres (Royaume-Uni) : Quartet Books, 1977 . - 278 pages. ISBN : 978-0-7043-3175-4 Langues : Anglais ( eng) Catégories : | Sciences humaines:Sociologie, anthropologie
| Résumé : | Over the past twenty years, homosexuality (both male and female) has gradually become an acceptable subject for discussion and general reactions to it have changed a great deal, not only in Britain but throughout Western Europe and North America. But, even so, very little is known about the emergence of a homosexual identity and the activities of homosexuals in countering hostility.
Coming Out, making extensive use of new material, records the growth of homosexual law reform from the development of harsh legal and social oppression in the late nineteenth century to the tremendous impact of the gay liberation movement in the 1970s, placing the changing historical responses of and towards homosexuals in a broad social context. The result is a book which not only documents fully for the first time the work of the homosexual reformers, but also succeeds in illuminating wider attitudes towards sexuality in general. |
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