A Queer History of the United States: Revised and Expanded (Revisioning History)

Name: A Queer History of the United States: Revised and Expanded (Revisioning History)
Brand: Beacon Press
SKU: 9780807023488
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Biographical Note:
Michael Bronski is professor of practice in media and activism in the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Program at Harvard University. He has written extensively on LGBT issues for decades, in both mainstream and queer publications, and is the author of several other books and editor of several anthologies.

Table of Contents:
Author's Note

Introduction: Some Thoughts on Queerness and History

ONE
The Persecuting Society

TWO
Sexually Ambiguous Revolutions

THREE
Imagining a Queer America

FOUR
A Democracy of Death and Art

FIVE
A Dangerous Purity

SIX
Life On the Stage/Life In the City

SEVEN
Production and Marketing of Gender

EIGHT
Sex In the Trenches

NINE
Visible Communities/Invisible Lives

TEN
Revolt/Backlash/Resistance

ELEVEN
A Short Meditation On History: An Interlude

TWELVE
New Worlds/Old Problems/Brave Solutions

AN EPILOGUE
Resistance/Power/Rights

Acknowledgments
Notes
Credit
Index

Review Quotes:
"A savvy political, legal, literary (and even fashion) history, Bronski's narrative is as intellectually rigorous as it is entertaining."
-- Publishers Weekly, Starred Review

"Bronski demonstrates with wit, insight, and impeccable scholarship that queer lives are, and always have been, woven into the very fabric of this country. Readable, radical, and smart--a must-read."
--Alison Bechdel, author of Fun Home

"Always insightful, and provocative."
--John D'Emilio, author of Lost Prophet

"In the age of Twitter and reductive history, we need a complex, fully realized, radical reassessment of history--and A Queer History of the United States is exactly that."
--Dorothy Allison, author of Bastard Out of Carolina

"This book is a revelation. . . . Bronski has a Zinn-like grasp of the ties that bind us all together and how to illuminate them on the page."
--Jewelle Gomez, activist and author of The Gilda Stories

"Elegant, insightfully selective, and unremittingly intelligent."
--Samuel R. Delany, author of Times Square Red, Times Square Blue

Publisher Marketing:
A revised and expanded edition of the first book to cover the entirety of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender history, from pre-1492 to the present

In this new edition of A Queer History of the United States, Michael Bronski's classic book now covers 500 years, bringing queer history into the 21st century and further illuminates how profoundly the LGBTQ+ life and people have shaped America.

Drawing upon primary documents, literature, and popular culture, Bronski weaves a comprehensive tapestry of LGBTQ+ history, providing startling examples of unknown or ignored aspects of our collective past.

From the ineffectiveness of sodomy laws in the colonies, to how rock music and youth culture unintentionally engendered the devastating backlash against gay rights in the late 1970s; from individuals such as Robert Treat Paine and Ezekiel Dodge, Harvard classmates in 1774 who formed a deep, loving relationship and wrote passionate love letters to one another to Lucy Hicks Andersen, a married African American socialite and celebrity chef in Oxnard, California, whose story appeared in Time magazine in 1945 after her transgender identity became known, Bronski covers an eclectic breadth of facts and stories.

This revised edition includes details on the evolution of the transgender liberation movement, the upsurge of vibrant queer movements of color, the groundbreaking emergence of new sexual and gender identities, and concludes by analyzing the current conservative backlash against LGBTQ rights, racial and social justice policies, and the drive to eradicate historical diversity.

Not simply about "gay history" it is about all American history, Bronski's dynamic and revealing narrative radically reframes how we understand our past and, more important, our present.