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- Publication Date
- 2006-05-15
- Pages
- 312
- ISBN
- 0226401901
- Book Title
- Lavender Scare : the Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government
- Item Length
- 8.9 in
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Publication Year
- 2006
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Perfect
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 0.7 in
- Genre
- History, Social Science, Political Science
- Topic
- Public Affairs & Administration, Lgbt Studies / General, Lgbt Studies / Gay Studies, United States / General
- Item Width
- 7 in
- Item Weight
- 16.2 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 312 Pages
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In Cold War America, Senator Joseph McCarthy enjoyed tremendous support in the fight against what he called atheistic communism. But that support stemmed less from his wild charges about communists than his more substantiated charges that "sex perverts" had infiltrated government agencies. Although now remembered as an attack on suspected disloyalty, McCarthyism introduced "moral values" into the American political arsenal. Warning of a spreading homosexual menace, McCarthy and his Republican allies learned how to win votes. Winner of three book awards, "The Lavender Scare" masterfully" "traces the origins of contemporary sexual politics to Cold War hysteria over national security. Drawing on newly declassified documents and interviews with former government officials, historian David Johnson chronicles how the myth that homosexuals threatened national security determined government policy for decades, ruined thousands of lives, and pushed many to suicide. As Johnson shows, this myth not only outlived McCarthy but, by the 1960s, helped launch a new civil rights struggle. "Fresh scholarship" --"New York Times "
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Publisher
University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10
0226401901
ISBN-13
9780226401904
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50216640
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Book Title
Lavender Scare : the Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government
Format
Perfect
Language
English
Topic
Public Affairs & Administration, Lgbt Studies / General, Lgbt Studies / Gay Studies, United States / General
Publication Year
2006
Type
Textbook
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
History, Social Science, Political Science
Number of Pages
312 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.9 in
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Width
7 in
Item Weight
16.2 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Jk723.H6j64 2006
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A gripping study of sanctioned homophobia in the McCarthy era and a celebration of the stubborn fight by a pre-Stonewall few that ultimately won rights for many, and of a cultural and sexual underground that survived even at the height of an unrelenting homophobia spanning the presidencies of Truman through Nixon., What does it say about the historical profession that it has taken nearly 30 more years to tell this story? Fortunately, David K. Johnson has done so with intelligence, sensitivity, and grace. We are all in his debt., The hoary rhetoric about the supposedly treasonous/treacherous nature of homosexuality that the historian David K. Johnson documents in his fine new book can initially strike a reader as amusing. The homophobic fulmination of varoius McCarthy-era senators and representatives he quotes are fatuous, if not ludicrous. But as The Lavender Scare goes on to reveal, the jaw-dropping extent of the federal government's persecution of its gay and lesbian employees in the '50s and '60s turns amusement into rage., David Johnson's engrossing study of the persecution of gays and lesbians during the Cold War, complete with a comprehensive picture of the gay culture that flourished in Washington, is an important addition to a subject all too often ignored., Johnson's dazzling social and political history puts the Cold War persecution of gays and lesbians center stage to highlight how the social and cultural anxieties around gender and sexuality dovetailed with the nation's state-building project in the post-World War II era., Fifty years ago, gays 'confronted a degree of policing and harassment that is almost unimaginable to us today' and which now is almost entirely forgotten. David K. Johnson's The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government is a heart-wrenching reminder that homosexuals faced brutal employment discrimination and endless police hostility., By demonstrating the extent to which gay history is part of mainstream history, [Johnson] continues the important academic endeavor of bringing the margins to the center., The Lavender Scare, a phrase invented David K. Johnson, alludes to the systematic persecution of homosexuals (both men and women) in Washington, DC, that began in the early years of the Cold War and lasted until, roughly, the early 1970s. It was the Siamese twin of the notorious Red Scare, which had a similar lifespan and started for similar reasons. Given the degree of injustice and the scale of the suffering caused by the Lavender Scare, it seems astonishing that no one before Johnson has thought to write its history, whereas there is a small library of books dealing with the anti-Communist crusade. . . . Time has thus created an opportunity and Dr. Johnson has seized it. His book is detailed, accurate, and fair-minded. . . . It deserves to stand on the shelf next to The Great Fear by David Caute, and should be studied by everyone who is interested in the McCarthy era and its implications., The Lavender Scare provides a superb overview of this period in American history. . . . It's a must-read for gay and lesbian federal employees, and would serve as an excellent text for college or graduate-level courses in history, sociology, political science, or gay studies., The Lavender Scare is a very readable and valuable work that clarifies the relationship between the Cold War and national security interests, and those victimized by the need to preserve said security. . . . This work will take its place beside those of George Chauncey and Allen Berube, and every serious student of 20th century American history should own it., Johnson's work assures that we shall never again be able to think about the anticommunist crusade without acknowledging its fierce counterpart that affected the lives of so many people., Dr. Johnson has provided today's generation with disturbing details of the maltreatment that U.S. security agents visited upon thousnads of loyal American citizens, people who endured vile campaigns against their well-being, conducted by their own government. The Lavender Scare has great current significance as a work of history because it exposes the anti-gay fear-mongering that Republicans initiated during the Cold War Era....a stellar work, one of the most important published gay histories there is., A valuable contribution to our understanding of the Cold War and those who became victims of the national security state. It highlights well, and in a very readable form, the origins and continuity of the gay rights movement which are located in the fight against the federal government's anti-gay policies., Keenly observed and elegantly written, with a sense of mystery and suspense indicative of the era, Johnson's book will reorient scholarship on the Cold War as it models a more complex method for integrating queer community history with economic and political history.
Table of Content
Acknowledgments Introduction: "Panic on the Potomac" 1. Peurifoy's Revelation: The Politics of the Purges 2. "This Used to Be a Very Gay City:" Lafayette Park and the Sex Crime Panic 3. "Cookie Pushers in Striped Pants:" The Lavender Lads in the State Department 4. "Fairies and Fair Dealers:" The Immoral Bureaucracy 5. The Hoey Investigation: Searching for a Homosexual Spy 6. "Let's Clean House:" The Eisenhower Security Program 7. Interrogations and Disappearances: Gay and Lesbian Subculture in 1950s Washington 8. "Homosexual Citizens:" The Mattachine Society of Washington Epilogue Notes Oral History Interviews Index
Copyright Date
2006
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Decimal
331.13/30973
Dewey Edition
23/Eng/20220810
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