The straight state :
Canaday, Margot.
The straight state : sexuality and citizenship in twentieth-century America / Margot Canaday. - Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2009. - xiv, 277 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Politics and society in twentieth-century America . - Politics and society in twentieth-century America. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Immigration. "A new species of undesirable immigrant" : perverse aliens and the limits of the law, 1900-1924 -- Military. "We are merely concerned with the fact of ... sodomy" : managing sexual stigma in the World War I-era military, 1917-1933 -- Welfare. "Most fags are floaters" : the problem of "unattached persons" during the early New Deal, 1933-1935 -- Welfare. "With the ugly word written across it" : homo-hetero binarism, federal welfare policy, and the 1944 GI Bill -- Military. "Finding a home in the Army" : women's integration, homosexual tendencies, and the Cold War military, 1947-1959 -- Immigration. "Who is a homosexual?" : the consolidation of sexual identities in mid-twentieth-century immigration law, 1952-1983.
9780691135984 (alk. paper) 0691135983 (alk. paper)
2008041020
GBA939217 bnb
015116721 Uk
Homosexuality--History--United States--20th century.
Homosexuality--Political aspects--History--United States--20th century.
Political rights--History--United States--20th century.
United States--Social policy--1980-1993.
HQ75.16.U6 / C36 2009
323.3/2640973
The straight state : sexuality and citizenship in twentieth-century America / Margot Canaday. - Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2009. - xiv, 277 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Politics and society in twentieth-century America . - Politics and society in twentieth-century America. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Immigration. "A new species of undesirable immigrant" : perverse aliens and the limits of the law, 1900-1924 -- Military. "We are merely concerned with the fact of ... sodomy" : managing sexual stigma in the World War I-era military, 1917-1933 -- Welfare. "Most fags are floaters" : the problem of "unattached persons" during the early New Deal, 1933-1935 -- Welfare. "With the ugly word written across it" : homo-hetero binarism, federal welfare policy, and the 1944 GI Bill -- Military. "Finding a home in the Army" : women's integration, homosexual tendencies, and the Cold War military, 1947-1959 -- Immigration. "Who is a homosexual?" : the consolidation of sexual identities in mid-twentieth-century immigration law, 1952-1983.
9780691135984 (alk. paper) 0691135983 (alk. paper)
2008041020
GBA939217 bnb
015116721 Uk
Homosexuality--History--United States--20th century.
Homosexuality--Political aspects--History--United States--20th century.
Political rights--History--United States--20th century.
United States--Social policy--1980-1993.
HQ75.16.U6 / C36 2009
323.3/2640973