Customer Review: While E. J. Graff gives a broad social history of marriage, she does not delve deeply enough into the religious history of marriage which leads to errors in her arguments. From her book, one could conclude that the Catholic Church did not consider marriage to be a sacrament until the 13th century.... more info
Customer Review: I read the 1981 edition of the 1980 book. With 448 pages the book appears to be exhaustive. However, subtract the bibliography etc. and the 67 p appendixes of quoted and/or translated historic documents and we are left with 338 pages. These in turn have to get halved, because of the extensive... more info
Customer Review: The Stonewall Riots of June 28-July 3, 1969, following a police raid on an illegal, mafia-owned gay bar in New York's Greenwich Village, mark the decisive turning point in gay American history. The unprecedented uprising has taken on mythic dimension over the succeeding 35 years. Author and... more info
Customer Review: George Chauncey has written an engaging and informative book that provides entry into another American era's conceptualizations of what we today think of as homosexuality. Gay New York takes great pains to debunk what Chauncey terms "the three myths" of isolation (gay men led solitary lives... more info
Customer Review: If you want to understand the state of trauma studies in their relation to the humanities, you absolutely must be familiar with Caruth's work. This book and her collection of edited essays were in large part responsible for the work on trauma within literature, film, and cultural studies since... more info
Customer Review: I read the original hard cover edition of 2003. It has 640 pages, some 100 color pictures and some 450 regular text pages. It covers Greece, Judea, the Roman Empire, Western Europe (mainly Italy, Spain [Christian and Muslim], France, England, the Netherlands and Prussia [historic part of... more info
Customer Review: I am deeply concerned with Joe's convictions because as a Christian therapist, I have met with clients that have been moved away from Joe's interpretive stances and resulting teachings regarding non-heterosexuality. The homosexuality in the Scriptures was sin but I do not believe nor do I support... more info
Customer Review: This has to be the second worst book that I've read in along time. His flings and the details that the writer goes into aren't always that interesting. The writer does name names and some are a shock and make you think. However, saying that the book could of been pared down at least 75 pages by... more info
Customer Review: This is an excellent collection of first-person narratives of gay life in America from 1945 to the present. The people interviewed cover everything from the Mattachine society to PFLAG to the GSA movement. Extremely useful for getting a broad look at the LGBT rights movement in America. I... more info
