书籍介绍
Through the diaries of gay men and other primary materials, the author demonstrates that gay society thrived in the open in pre-World War II New York long before the current prominence of homosexuality. National ad/promo.
AI导读
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
适合谁读
- 对LGBTQ+历史、性别研究及社会学感兴趣的读者
- 关注美国城市史、文化史及社会变迁的研究者
- 希望深入了解早期同性恋亚文化与身份建构的群体
读前提醒
- 基于大量日记等一手史料，部分数据章节可能略显枯燥
- 建议结合福柯等理论背景阅读，以理解身份的历史断裂
- 关注作者如何平衡理论运用与历史叙事，避免理论主宰
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
本导读基于书籍简介、目录、原文摘录、短评和书评生成，不等同于全文精读。
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."
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)
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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