The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America

by Margot Canaday

Book Overview

How the government enforced sex and gender conformity and relegated gays to second-class citizenship

The Straight State is the most expansive study of the federal regulation of homosexuality yet written. Unearthing startling new evidence from the National Archives, Margot Canaday shows how the state systematically came to penalize homosexuality, giving rise to a regime of second-class citizenship that sexual minorities still...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691149933
• ISBN13: 9780691149936
• Release Date: July 2011
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"