The queerness of home : gender, sexuality, and the politics of domesticity after World War II /

The queerness of home : gender, sexuality, and the politics of domesticity after World War II /

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Author / Creator:	Vider, Stephen, author.
Imprint:	Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2021. ©2021
Description:	1 online resource (307 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Subject:	Sexual minorities -- Social conditions. Domestic relations. Sexual minorities -- Legal status, laws, etc. Sexual minorities' families. Domestic relations. Sexual minorities' families. Sexual minorities -- Legal status, laws, etc.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12665905

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ISBN:	022680822X 9780226808222
Notes:	Description based upon print version of record. Includes bibliographical references and index
Summary:	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.
Other form:	Print version: Vider, Stephen The Queerness of Home Chicago : University of Chicago Press,c2021 9780226808192

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Item Description:	Description based upon print version of record.
Physical Description:	1 online resource (307 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:	022680822X 9780226808222