Departing from deviance
a history of homosexual rights and emancipatory science in America
Minton, Henry L.
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University of Chicago Press
2002
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The struggle to remove the stigma of sickness surrounding same-sex love has a long history. In 1973, the American Psychiatric Association removed homosexuality from its diagnostic classification of mental illness, but the groundwork for this pivotal decision was laid decades earlier. In this new study, Henry L. Minton looks back at the struggle of the American gay and lesbian activists who chose scientific research as a path for advancing homosexual rights. He traces the history of gay and lesbian emancipatory research from its early beginnings in the late nineteenth century to its role in cha.
Introduction: emancipatory science and homosexual rights -- The relationship between homosexuals and sex researchers, 1870-1940 -- Jan Gay and the Sex Variants Committee, 1935-41 -- Homosexual life stories, 1935-41 -- Henry and Gross and the study of sex offenders, 1937-72 -- Thomas Painter and the study of male prostitution, 1935-43 -- Toward participatory research on homosexuality: Painter, Kinsey, and the Kinsey Institute, 1943-73 -- Evelyn Hooker, Frank Kameny, and depathologizing homosexuality, 1957-73 -- Epilogue: beyond 1973.
Henry L. Minton.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-335) and index.
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Homosexuality
Research
United States
Gay liberation movement
United States
Social Science
Homosexualité
Recherche
États-Unis
Mouvement de libération des homosexuels
États-Unis
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Discrimination & Race Relations
Homoseksualiteit
Onderzoek
Emancipatie
Homobeweging
Homosexualität
Forschung
USA
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Departing from deviance
Minton, Henry L.
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2002
(DLC) 2001027802
(OCoLC)46918076
9780226304458 (electronic bk.)
0226304450 (electronic bk.)
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