HIDDEN FROM HISTORY: RECLAIMING THE GAY AND LESBIAN PAST
edited by Martin Bauml Duberman, Martha Vicinus, and George Chauncey, Jr.
Condition: Good. Pictorial softcover with light rubbing and edgewear; spine square, binding firm; mild toning.
About the Book
This landmark anthology gathers leading historians and theorists to reconstruct the hidden narratives of gay and lesbian experience across centuries and cultures. Covering a wide historical range from Imperial China to Renaissance Italy, from Victorian England to Harlem the essays explore how sexuality has been defined, suppressed, celebrated, and transformed through changing social structures and cultural meanings.
Contributors examine topics such as friendship and intimacy before the modern concept of homosexuality, the social worlds of male pr*stitutes and cross-dressers, the emergence of lesbian identity, and the shifting moral and legal attitudes toward same-sex love. Together, these studies recover a vast and complex past long obscured by silence or distortion, illuminating both continuity and rupture in the history of sexuality.
About the Editors
Martin Bauml Duberman is a historian and playwright known for his pioneering scholarship on social justice and LGBTQ history.
Martha Vicinus is a scholar of gender, literature, and Victorian studies.
George Chauncey, Jr. is a historian best known for Gay New York, a foundational study of urban gay life before World War II.
