The Queerness of Home

Gender, Sexuality, and the Politics of Domesticity after World War II

Stephen Vider (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

304 Seiten

2022
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-80836-9 (ISBN)

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Vider uncovers how LGBTQ people reshaped domestic life in the postwar United States.

From the Stonewall riots to the protests of ACT UP, histories of queer and trans politics have almost exclusively centered on public activism. In The Queerness of Home, Stephen Vider turns the focus inward, showing that the intimacy of domestic space has been equally crucial to the history of postwar LGBTQ life.

Beginning in the 1940s, LGBTQ activists looked increasingly to the home as a site of connection, care, and cultural inclusion. They struggled against the conventions of marriage, challenged the gendered codes of everyday labor, reimagined domestic architecture, and contested the racial and class boundaries of kinship and belonging. Retelling LGBTQ history from the inside out, Vider reveals the surprising ways that the home became, and remains, a charged space in battles for social and economic justice, making it clear that LGBTQ people not only realized new forms of community and culture for themselves—they remade the possibilities of home life for everyone.

Stephen Vider is assistant professor of history and director of the Public History Initiative at Cornell University.

Introduction: The Politics and Performance of Home

Part One. Integrations
Chapter One. “Something of a Merit Badge”: Lesbian and Gay Marriage and Romantic Adjustment
Chapter Two. “Oh Hell, May, Why Don’t You People Have a Cookbook?”: Camp Humor and Gay Domesticity

Part Two. Revolutions
Chapter Three. “The Ultimate Extension of Gay Community”: Communal Living, Gay Liberation, and the Reinvention of the Household
Chapter Four. “Fantasy Is the Beginning of Creation”: Imagining Lesbian Feminist Architecture

Part Three. Reforms
Chapter Five. “Some Hearts Go Hungering”: Homelessness and the First Wave of LGBTQ Shelter Activism
Chapter Six. “Picture a Coalition”: Community Caregiving and the Politics of HIV/AIDS at Home
Epilogue: The Futures of the Queer Home
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	23.11.2021
Zusatzinfo	57 halftones
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	399 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	0-226-80836-X / 022680836X
ISBN-13	978-0-226-80836-9 / 9780226808369
Zustand	Neuware