Toward Stonewall: Homosexuality and Society in the Modern Western World,Used

Toward Stonewall: Homosexuality and Society in the Modern Western World,Used

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As recently as the 1970s, gay and lesbian history was a relatively unexplored field for serious scholars. The past quarter century, however, has seen enormous growth in gay and lesbian studies. The literature is now voluminous; it is also widely scattered and not always easily accessible. In Toward Stonewall, Nicholas Edsall provides a muchneeded synthesis, drawing upon both scholarly and popular writings to chart the development of homosexual subcultures in the modern era and the uneasy place they have occupied in Western society.Edsalls survey begins three hundred years ago in northwestern Europe, when homosexual subcultures recognizably similar to those of our own era began to emerge, and it follows their surprisingly diverse paths through the Enlightenment to the early nineteenth century. The book then turns to the Victorian era, tracing the development of articulate and selfaware homosexual subcultures. With a greater sense of identity and organization came new forms of resistance: this was the age that saw the persecution of Oscar Wilde, among others, as well as the medical establishments labeling of homosexuality as a sign of degeneracy.The books final section locates the foundations of presentday gay subcultures in a succession of twentiethcentury scenes and eventsin preNazi Germany, in the lesbian world of interwar Paris, in the law reforms of 1960s Englandculminating in the emergence of popular movements in the postwar United States.Rather than examining these groups in isolation, the book considers them in their social contexts and as comparable to other subordinate groups and minority movements. In the process, Toward Stonewall illuminates not only the subcultures that are its primary subject but the larger societies from which they emerged.

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