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Table of Contents ACKNOWLEDGMENTS INTRODUCTION PART ONE SEXUAL REVOLUTION 1 Sexual Revolution And The Politics Of Gay Identity 2 The Political Economy Of The Closet Toward an Economic History of Gay and Lesbian Life before Stonewall 3 Homosexuality And The Sociological Imagination Hegemonic Discourses, the Circulation of Ideas, and the Process of Reading in the 1950s and 1960s PART TWO INTELLECTUALS AND CULTURAL POLICIES 4 Inside The Ivory Closet The Challenge Facing Lesbian and Gay Studies 5 From Community To University Generations, Paradigms, and Vernacular Knowledge in Lesbian and Gay Studies* 6 Intellectuals, Identity Politics, And The Contest For Cultural Authority 7 Pessimism Of The Mind Universities and the Decline of Public Discourse 8 Under The Sign Of The Queer Cultural Studies and Social Theory PART THREE FROM IDENTITY POLITICS TO RADICAL DEMOCRACY 9 The Limits Of Multiculturalism Identity Politics and the Transformation of the Public Sphere 10 Reflections On Queer Nation with Allan Brub 11 Culture Wars And Identity Politics The Religious Right and the Cultural Politics of Homosexuality Conclusion Meditations in an Emergency Notes INDEX ACKNOWLEDGMENTS It is daunting but nonetheless pleasurable to acknowledge those who, for more than a decade, have helped me think more creatively and write more clearly about the historical and social conditions of gay and lesbian life

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This period involved marked reactionary tendencies toward gender roles (the attempt to keep women in the home) and extreme pronatalism (the baby boom)

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