Same-sex dynamics among nineteenth-century Americans : a Mormon example / D. Michael Quinn.

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [1996], ©1996.

x, 477 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Copy 1 Supplier/Donor: Cambridge Medical Books

Cross-cultural perspective on same-sex dynamics -- The homosocial -- The homopastoral and homotactile -- The homoemotional and homoromantic -- The homomarital, gender-roles, and cross-dressing -- Same-sex couples, homoenvironmental subcultures, and the census -- The earliest community study of lesbians and gay males in America : Salt Lake City -- The coming-out of three prominent Mormons in 1919 -- Homoeroticism and sex crimes in early Mormonism and pioneer Utah -- Utah's judicial and medical responses : the Wilde case to 1918 -- From relative tolerance to homophobia in twentieth-century Mormonism.

Includes bibliographic references and index