Men without Maps: Some Gay Males of the Generation before Stonewall - Couverture souple

Ibson, John

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 022665611X ISBN 13 : 9780226656113

Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 2019

Synopsis

In Men without Maps, John Ibson uncovers the experiences of men after World War II who had same-sex desires but few affirmative models of how to build identities and relationships. Though heterosexual men had plenty of cultural maps—provided by nearly every engine of social and popular culture—gay men mostly lacked such guides in the years before parades, organizations, and publications for queer persons. Surveying the years from shortly before the war up to the gay rights movement of the late 1960s and early ’70s, Ibson considers male couples, who balanced domestic contentment with exterior repression, as well as single men, whose solitary lives illuminate unexplored aspects of the queer experience. Men without Maps shows how, in spite of the obstacles they faced, midcentury gay men found ways to assemble their lives and senses of self at a time of limited acceptance.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

John Ibson is emeritus professor of American studies at California State University, Fullerton, and author of The Mourning After and Picturing Men, both published by the University of Chicago Press.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Chicago Press
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 022665611X
• ISBN 13: 9780226656113
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 163
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• Personne responsable: non disponible