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Condition: Good Book edges slightly worn, corners beginning to curl and short ink inscription on pre-title page, but spine unbroken and apparently unread. Content: "Over the past twenty years, homosexuality (both male and female) has gradually become an acceptable subject for discussion and general reactions to it have changed a great deal, not only in Britain but throughout Western Europe and North America. But, even so, very little is known about the emergence of a homosexual identity and the activities of homosexuals in countering hostility. "Coming Out, making extensive use of new material, records the growth of homosexual law reform from the development of harsh legal and social oppression in the late nineteenth century to the tremendous impact of the gay liberation movement in the 1970s, placing the changing historical responses of and towards homosexuals in a broad social context. The result is a book which not only documents fully for the first time the work of the homosexual reformers, but also succeeds in illuminating wider attitudes towards sexuality in general." (from the cover) Background / Biography: "Jeffrey Weeks was born in 1945 in Rhondda, Wales, and educated in local schools and at University College, London. From 1970 to 1977 he was on the research staff of the London School of Economics. He is the co-author (with Sheila Rowbotham) of Socialism and the New Life (1977). He is currently writing a book about changing attitudes towards sexuality over the last hundred years." (from the pre-title page) Reviews: Clicking on advertiser links on this site may allow these companies to gather and use information about your visit to this and other websites to provide you with advertisements about goods and services presumed to be of interest to you. |
Quote from this book "Law does not create public opinion but it does shape and reinforce it. For close on a hundred years the male homosexual consciousness in Britain has been dominated by the legal situation. Between 1885 and 1967 all male homosexual acts, whether committed in public or private, were illegal. A series of dramatic court cases, countless minor convictions, the ever-present threat of blackmail and public disgrace, underlined the formal legal position and helped to perpetuate an oppressively hostile public opinion." opening sentences Secondhand booksellers |
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