书籍介绍
这本书最锋利之处，在于它大胆推翻了一个我们习以为常的假设：同性恋身份的成形，是自由逐渐胜利的历史。作者却指出，二战前的纽约对同性恋反而相对宽容——而战后那种激烈排斥，反而让我们误以为过去同样狭隘。书中那个引发讨论最多的概念是'仙子'（fairy）：一种以阴柔气质、被动性角色标识自身的男性，其身份与阶级（多为工人）和性别表达死死绑定。这一群体后来为何消失、被'同性恋'这一新标签取代，背后是权力如何重新定义'男人'与'失败'。它不是一部颂歌，而是一次冷峻的文化考古：欲望、气质、阶级与语言如何交织，共同塑造了一个群体的边界。
作者简介
George Chauncey (* 1953) is a professor of history at Yale University. He is best known as the author of Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940 (1994)
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核心看点
- 重构1890至1940年纽约男同性恋社群的繁荣历史
- 揭示城市空间与同性恋身份形成的相互促进关系
- 挑战战后异性恋二元论，展现前现代性文化的多样性
读者共识
- 公认了解LGBT史、美国史及城市史的经典重要著作
- 史料丰富详实，让历史自我发声，读来有身临其境感
- 虽部分章节平淡，但文化史重构与策略分析极具启发性
精彩摘录
- "If a man risked forfeiting his masculine status by being sexually passive, he could also establish it by playing the dominant role in an encounter with another man. So long as they planed the 'man' s role, they remained ‘man’."
- "In a culture in which men regarded themselves as highly lustful creatures whose health would be impaired if their explosive sexual needs did not find release(or, as they usuallly termed it, "relief" or "satisfaction"), a phallocentric（男性为重心的） economy of sexual pleasure governed relations with such w"
- "This book argues instead that gay life in New York was less tolerated, less visible to outsiders, and more rigidly segregated in the second third of the century than the first, and that the very severity of the postwar reaction has tended to blind us to the relative tolerance of the prewar years."
用户评论
理解欧美20世纪早期城市男性同性性行为性文化的经典之一，另一经典是讲述大西洋对岸的《Queer London》
一部城市空间和同性恋之间，相互促进，相互发展，相互制约的著作。
这书太经典了！！为啥没人翻译！！！
数据什么的是有点枯燥，但真的是了解gay history一本不可多得的好书了
UCSD SOC119 - Sexuality and Sexual Identities reading material
1994
Prototypical gay culture.
引论极佳 中间篇章有些平淡
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