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Cherry Grove, Fire Island (eBook, PDF)

Sixty Years in America's First Gay and Lesbian Town

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Produktbeschreibung

First published in 1993, the award-winning Cherry Grove, Fire Island tells the story of the extraordinary gay and lesbian resort community near New York City. This new paperback edition includes a new preface by the author.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 424
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Februar 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822377214
• Artikelnr.: 54793391

Autorenporträt

Esther Newton is currently Term Professor of Women's Studies at the University of Michigan, and Professor Emerita of Anthropology and Kempner Distinguished Professor at Purchase College, SUNY. She is the author of Margaret Mead Made Me Gay: Personal Essays, Public Ideas, published by Duke University Press, Mother Camp: Female Impersonators in America, coauthor of Womenfriends: A Soap Opera, and coeditor of Amazon Expedition: A Lesbian Feminist Anthology.  

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments xi
Preface to the 2014 Edition xv
Prologue 1
Part I. How the Grove Became Gay: 1936-1945 13
1. "Built upon the Sand" 15
Part II. The Gay Country Club: 1946–1959 37
2. The Battle for the Beach 43
3. Conviviality and Camp 68
4. Trouble in Paradise 94
Part III. The Nation Takes Shape: 1960-1969 109
5. The Rise of Gay Commercialism 113
6. The Geometry of Gay Prejudice 142
7. Plays, Parties, and Sex 170
Part IV. The "Lithuanians" and the "Doughnut Rack": The Lesbian Minority,
1936–1980 203
8. The "Fun Gay Ladies" 207
9. "Just One of the 'Boys'" 221
Part VI. The Grove after Stonewall: 1970-1980 235
10. The Ad Hoc Committee to Save Cherry Grove 243
11. Bored on the Fourth of July 266
Epilogue 285
Appendix on Methods 301
Notes 305
Narrators 349
References Cited 353
Index 369