Love Stories: Sex between Men before Homosexuality
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0226426157
ISBN 13
9780226426150
Category
History
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Publication Year
2001
Publisher
Pages
426
Description
In Love Stories, Jonathan Ned Katz presents stories of men's intimacies with men during the nineteenth century—including those of Abraham Lincoln—drawing flesh-and-blood portraits of intimate friendships and the ways in which men struggled to name, define, and defend their sexual feelings for one another. In a world before "gay" and "straight" referred to sexuality, men like Walt Whitman and John Addington Symonds created new ways to name and conceive of their erotic relationships with other men. Katz, diving into history through diaries, letters, newspapers, and poems, offers us a clearer picture than ever before of how men navigated the uncharted territory of male-male desire. - from Amzon
Number of Copies
1
