Chicago whispers : a history of LGBT Chicago before Stonewall
Record details
- ISBN: 1283657422
- ISBN: 9781283657426
- ISBN: 0299286940
- ISBN: 9780299286941
- ISBN: 0299286932
- ISBN: 9780299286934
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (xviii, 326 pages) : illustrations
remote - Publisher: Madison : The University of Wisconsin Press, ©2012.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-311) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | The explorers -- The Chicago doctors -- Chicago's cesspools of infamy -- Mannish women -- The Little review -- Kings and queens of burlesque -- Towertown -- Henry Gerber and the German sex reformers -- Some in the arts -- The blues and all that jazz -- Powder puffs -- Gay life in the 1930s -- Bronzeville -- World War II and the 1940s -- The Cold War -- Masculinity and the physique culture -- Lesbian pulp paperbacks and literature -- Negro arts and literature -- The night life -- Trouble with the law -- Trans-forming drag -- The sodomy laws -- The gay pioneers -- Mattachine midwest and the struggle toward a greater visibility. |
Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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