A Queer History of the United States

A Queer History of the United States
Author Michael Bronski
Country United States
Language English
Subject LGBT history in the United States
Published May 10, 2011 (Beacon Press)
Media type Print
Pages 287
Awards Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award[1]
ISBN 978-0-8070-4439-1
OCLC 662402765
306.76/60973
LC Class HQ76.3.U5 B696 2011

A Queer History of the United States is a concise history of LGBT people in US society.[2] It describes ways in which queer people have influenced the evolution of the United States, and how the culture of the United States has affected them.[3][4]

A Queer History of the United States was published by Beacon Press in 2011. It was recognized with a Stonewall Book Award in 2012.[1][4] The author, Michael Bronski, is a professor of Women's & Gender Studies at Dartmouth College, and professor of Practice in Media and Activism in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard University.[5]

Chapters

  1. The Persecuting Society
  2. Sexually Ambiguous Revolutions
  3. Imagining a Queer America
  4. A Democracy of Death and Art
  5. A Dangerous Purity
  6. Life on the Stage, Life in the City
  7. Production and Marketing of Gender
  8. Sex in the Trenches
  9. Visible Communities, Invisible Lives
  10. Revolt, Backlash, Resistance

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Stonewall Book Awards List § 2012". ALA.org. American Library Association. Retrieved 2017-03-22.
  2. ↑ Hari, Johann (May 23, 2011). "How Gays Helped Make and Remake America". Slate. Retrieved 2016-06-22.
  3. ↑ Liebetrau, Eric (May 17, 2011). "Reassessing 500 years of American history: A scholarly look at the LGBT experience". Boston.com. Retrieved 2016-06-22.
  4. 1 2 Barber, Bonnie (February 23, 2012). "Professor Michael Bronski Wins Prestigious Stonewall Book Award". Dartmouth Now. Dartmouth College. Retrieved 2016-06-22.
  5. ↑ "Michael Bronski". Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality. Harvard University. Retrieved 2016-06-22.

Further reading

  • Wexelbaum, Rachel (June 20, 2011). "'A Queer History of the United States' by Michael Bronski and 'Queer America: A People's LGBT History of the United States' by Vicki L. Eaklor". Lambda Literary. Lambda Literary Foundation. Retrieved 2016-06-22.
  • Ireland, Doug (October 13, 2011). "Michael Bronski's A Queer History of the United States — review". Direland. Doug Ireland. Retrieved 2016-06-22.
  • Reed, Jennifer (February 2012). "A Queer History of the United States, by Michael Bronski" (PDF). The History Teacher. The Society for History Education. 45 (2): 297–98. ISSN 0018-2745. Retrieved 2016-06-22.
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