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Subject(s)

• Homosexuality—United States—History—20th century [Browse]
• Homosexuality—Political aspects—United States—History—20th century [Browse]
• United States—Social policy—1980-1993 [Browse]
• Political rights—United States—History—20th century [Browse]

Series

Politics and society in twentieth-century America [More in this series]

Bibliographic references

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.

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ISBN

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

LCCN

2008041020

OCLC

259715956

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