By J. Hatheway
The Gilded Age development of yankee Homophobia is an research of the detrimental reaction to the invention of the gay in past due 19th century the United States. during this interval of social misery, many americans got here to doubt the underlying assumptions of nationwide growth. If the us have been to stay precise to its promise of earthly perfection, then the forces of social disharmony needed to be conquer. Homosexuality, besides the fact that, challenged the very notions of order and development. This e-book investigates the responses of the emergent clinical group to this challenge, and concludes with a dialogue of the way the destructive reception of the gay impacted the long run social perception of homosexual women and men.
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Has no character, . . he is steeped in libertinism, in infidelity, in every kind of profligacy which tends to harden the heart and to deaden the feelings of humility—no less than to stifle the sentiments of true honor;”36 “The Mongolians . . differ from our own race by as strongly marked characteristics as do the Negroes . . their moral standard is as low as their standard of comfort . . [and] they practice all the unnamable the rise of an urban middle-class / 41 vices of the East and are as cruel as they are cowardly;”37 “The Indian and Spaniard were alike in natural indolence, love of luxury, fondness for amusement, and hatred of menial occupations .
The struggles over emancipation and women’s liberation magnified these points and their successes actually helped to undermine the viability of essentialism itself, although that was ultimately reserved for the homosexual of the late twentieth century. origins of a national ideology up to the civil war / 29 To be sure, when popular essentialism is mixed with belief in a hierarchy of status, race, sex, and gender, a highly stratified, conservative society results in which everyone had his or her place, and to be out of place was anathema.