Canaday, Margot.

The straight state sexuality and citiz enship in twentieth-century America / [electronic resource] : Margot Canaday. - Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2009. - xiv, 277 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Politics and society in twentieth-century America . - Politics and society in twentieth-century America. ACLS Humanities E-Book. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Immigration. "A new species of undesirable immigrant" : perverse ali ens and the limits of the law, 1900-1924 -- Military. "We are merely co ncerned with the fact of sodomy" : managing sexual stigma in the World War I-era military, 1917-1933 -- Welfare. "Most fags are floaters" : th e problem of "unattached persons" during the early New Deal, 1933-1935 -- Welfare. "With the ugly word written across it" : homo-hetero binari sm, federal welfare policy, and the 1944 GI Bill -- Military. "Finding a home in the Army" : women's integration, homosexual tendencies, and t he Cold War military, 1947-1959 -- Immigration. "Who is a homosexual?" : the consolidation of sexual identities in mid-twentieth-century immig ration law, 1952-1983.


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Homosexuality-- History-- United States-- 20th century.
Homosexuality-- Political aspects-- History-- United States-- 20 th century.
Political rights-- History-- United States-- 20th century.


United States-- Social policy-- 1980-1993.