Verlag:
Cornell University Press Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: 85N599K
EAN: 9781501786457
Auf Lager:
3
Zustellung: Di, 17.11.2026
Versand: Kostenlos
CHF 37.–
Beschreibung
Belfastmen. reconstructs the everyday experiences of queer men in a region infamous for its recent history of intolerance, violence, and religious homophobia to show how queer lives before the gay rights movement were not only possible but also rich, exciting, and fulfilling. Irish churches and governmental authorities found the topic of sex between men unmentionable and imagined such vice as a problem only found in decadent and degenerate societies abroad. Belfastmen. shows how this tacit ignorance and public silence paradoxically enabled male queerness to flourish with only rare exposure, condemnation, or regulation. Tom Hulme traces the intimate lives of men across time, space, and self-understanding: their meeting places, their sexual and romantic relationships, the scientific and social models of desire they used to define themselves, and the responses to them from families, neighborhoods, and the law. From Belfast's industrial boom in the late nineteenth century to the social transformations accompanying WWII, Belfastmen. reveals how homosexuality finally emerged as a recognized social problem in the 1950s. Only then did Northern Ireland start to transform into the expressively homophobic society of the more recent past.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- Tom Hulme
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2026
Format
- Buch (Softcover)
Anzahl Seiten
- 306