A01=Charles Upchurch
age of reform
Author_Charles Upchurch
british police
british society
Category=JBSF2
changing perceptions
discussion books
early 19th century
early victorian period
economic changes
england
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family changes
great britain
historical account
history buffs
history of sexuality
homosexuality
law changes
literary
national media
nonfiction
oscar wilde
perceptions of sex
political changes
queer theory
same sex attraction
same sex desire
sex between men
social perspective
western sexuality
Product details
- ISBN 9780520258532
- Weight: 544g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 22 Apr 2009
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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This book examines changing perceptions of sex between men in early Victorian Britain, a significant yet surprisingly little explored period in the history of Western sexuality. Looking at the dramatic transformations of the era - changes in the family and in the law, the emergence of the world's first police force, the growth of a national media, and more - Charles Upchurch asks how perceptions of same-sex desire changed between men, in families, and in the larger society. To illuminate these questions, he mines a rich trove of previously unexamined sources, including hundreds of articles pertaining to sex between men that appeared in mainstream newspapers. The first book to relate this topic to broader economic, social, and political changes in the early nineteenth century, "Before Wilde" sheds new light on the central question of how and when sex acts became identities.
Charles Upchurch is Associate Professor of History at Florida State University.
