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Author:

Canaday, Margot.

Title:

The straight state : sexuality and citizenship in twentieth-century America / Margot Canaday.

Publisher:

Princeton University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2009

Description:

xiv, 277 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Homosexuality--United States--History--20th century.
Homosexuality--History--United States--History--20th century.
United States--Social policy--1980-1993.
Political rights--United States--History--20th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

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.

Series:

Politics and society in twentieth-century America

ISBN:

0691135983 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780691135984 (hardcover : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)259715956

LCCN:

2008041020

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

N3AX771 -- Drake Law School Library (Des Moines)

UPAX334 -- Upper Iowa University - Henderson-Wilder Library (Fayette)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)