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Summary:

"Stephen Vider considers how the meanings of domesticity shifted for gay men and lesbians from the late 1960s to early 1980s, from a site of supposed isolation or deviance, to a source of identity, community, and pleasure. His manuscript reveals the multiple uses, appeals, and limits of domesticity for LGBTQ people in the post-World War II period, in their efforts to make social and sexual connections, and to appeal for expanded rights and freedoms. For example, the 1970s witnessed an efflorescence of gay communal households that proved to be seedbeds for alternative modes of domesticity, using the privacy of domestic space to achieve broader social and political changes. Vider brings a novel perspective to gay identity and culture, examining domesticity as a meeting point between practices and discourse, the local and national, the private and the public"-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• Introduction : The Politics and Performance of Home
• Part One. Integrations. 1. "Something of a merit badge" : lesbian and gay marriage and romantic adjustment
• 2. "Oh hell, May, why don't you people have a cookbook?" : camp humor and gay domesticity
• Part Two. Revolutions. 3. "The ultimate extension of gay community" : communal living, gay liberation, and the reinvention of the household
• 4. "Fantasy is the beginning of creation" : imagining lesbian feminist architecture
• Part Three. Reforms. 5. "Some hearts go hungering" : homelessness and the first wave of LGBT shelter activism
• 6. "Picture a coalition" : community caregiving and the politics of HIV/AIDS at home
• Epilogue : The Futures of the Queer Home.

Author/Creator:

Vider, Stephen , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

The queerness of home: gender, sexuality, and the politics of domesticity after World War II [by Vider, S.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Queerness of home [by Vider, S.] (Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2021 — ISBN 9780226808192; LCCN 2021007617; OCLC Number 1238128157)

Subjects:

Sexual minorities — Social conditions

Domestic relations

Sexual minorities — Legal status, laws, etc.

Sexual minorities' families

Sexual minorities

Social conditions

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index
Stephen Vider is assistant professor of history and director of the Public History Initiative at Cornell University.
Description based on: Print version record.

Creator Demographics:

Americans

Physical Description:

1 online resource (300 pages) : illustrations

Call Numbers:

HQ73 .V53 2021eb

ISBNs:

9780226808222 (electronic book)
022680822X (electronic book)
9780226808192 (hardcover) [Invalid]
022680819X (hardcover) [Invalid]
9780226808369 (paperback) [Invalid]
022680836X (paperback) [Invalid]

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2021007617

OCLC Numbers:

1281970353