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 : The University of Chicago Press, 2021. ©2021
Description:	300 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12707061

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ISBN:	9780226808192 022680819X 9780226808369 022680836X 9780226808222
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"Stephen Vider considers how the meanings of domesticity shifted for gay men and lesbians from the late 1960s to early 1980s, from a site of supposed isolation or deviance, to a source of identity, community, and pleasure. His manuscript reveals the multiple uses, appeals, and limits of domesticity for LGBTQ people in the post-World War II period, in their efforts to make social and sexual connections, and to appeal for expanded rights and freedoms. For example, the 1970s witnessed an efflorescence of gay communal households that proved to be seedbeds for alternative modes of domesticity, using the privacy of domestic space to achieve broader social and political changes. Vider brings a novel perspective to gay identity and culture, examining domesticity as a meeting point between practices and discourse, the local and national, the private and the public"--

Table of Contents:

Introduction: The Politics and Performance of Home
Part I. Integrations
Chapter 1. "Something of a merit badge": Lesbian and Gay Marriage and Romantic Adjustment
Chapter 2. "Oh hell, May, why don't you people have a cookbook?": Camp Humor and Gay Domesticity
Part II. Revolutions
Chapter 3. "The ultimate extension of gay community": Communal Living, Gay Liberation, and the Reinvention of the Household
Chapter 4. "Fantasy is the beginning of creation": Imagining Lesbian Feminist Architecture
Part III. Reforms
Chapter 5. "Some hearts go hungering": Homelessness and the First Wave of LGBT Shelter Activism
Chapter 6. "Picture a coalition": Community Caregiving and the Politics of HIV/AIDS at Home
Epilogue: The Futures of the Queer Home.

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