Masculinity and Male Homosexuality in Britain, 1861-1913 by Brady, S.

Masculinity and Male Homosexuality in Britain, 1861-1913 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781403947130)

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Masculinity and Male Homosexuality in Britain, 1861-1913 by Brady, S.

Masculinity and Male Homosexuality in Britain, 1861-1913

$109.00
Masculinity and Male Homosexuality in Britain, 1861-1913 by Brady, S.

Masculinity and Male Homosexuality in Britain, 1861-1913

$109.00
Format: Hardcover
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This book is part of a new generation of historical research that challenges prevailing arguments for the medical and legal construction of male homosexual identities in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Britain. British society could not tolerate the discussion necessary to form medical or legal concepts of 'the homosexual'. The development of masculinity as a social status is examined, for its influence in shaping societal attitudes towards sex and sexuality between men and fostering resistance to any kind of recognition of these phenomena. Imperatives to bolster masculinity as a social status precluded public recognition of the existence of sex and sexuality between men, even in terms that were hostile and pejorative.

Author: S. Brady
ISBN-10: 1403947139
ISBN-13: 9781403947130
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 08/10/2005
Pages: 265
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.75d

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Choice 06/01/2006 pg. 1906
By S. Brady
By S. Brady
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SEAN BRADY is Lecturer in Modern British History at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. He is convening editor for Palgrave Macmillan's series Genders and Sexualities in History.

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