John D'Emilio  (1948 - )

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Intimate Matters : A History of Sexuality in America by John D'Emilio, Estelle B. Freedman, B. Estelle Freedman (Contributor)

The first full length study of the history of sexuality in America, Intimate Matters offers trenchant insights into the sexual behavior of Americans, from colonial times to today. D'Emilio and Freedman give us a deeper understanding of how sexuality has dramatically influenced politics and culture throughout our history.

"Fascinating. . . . [D'Emilio and Freedman] marshall their material to chart a gradual but decisive shift in the way Americans have understood sex and its meaning in their lives." --Barbara Ehrenreich, New York Times Book Review

"[With] comprehensiveness and care . . . D'Emilio and Freedman have surveyed the sexual patters for an entire nation across four centuries." --Martin Bauml Duberman, Nation

"Intimate Matters is comprehensive, meticulous and intelligent." --Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World

"This book is remarkable. . . . [Intimate Matters] is bound to become the definitive survey of American sexual history for years to come." --Roy Porter, Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences

Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities - The Making of a Homosexual Minority in the United States, 1940-1970  by John D'Emilio

With thorough documentation of the oppression of homosexuals and biographical sketches of the lesbian and gay heroes who helped the contemporary gay culture to emerge, Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities supplies the definitive analysis of the homophile movement in the U.S. from 1940 to 1970. John D'Emilio's new preface and afterword examine the conditions that shaped the book and the growth of gay and lesbian historical literature.

"How many students of American political culture know that during the McCarthy era more people lost their jobs for being alleged homosexuals than for being Communists? . . . These facts are part of the heretofore obscure history of homosexuality in America--a history that John D'Emilio thoroughly documents in this important book."--George DeStefano, Nation

"John D'Emilio provides homosexual political struggles with something that every movement requires--a sympathetic history rendered in a dispassionate voice."--New York Times Book Review

"A milestone in the history of the American gay movement."--Rudy Kikel, Boston Globe

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John D'Emilo Curriculum Vitae 

John is Professor of History and Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. 

"Creating Change for Changing Times"

by John D'Emilio, Director of the Policy Institute, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force

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NGLTF has changed, too, over the years. Some changes have come with planning and forethought; some have been thrust upon us by events. At times we have led the way and pioneered new directions. At other times, we have struggled to adapt to new circumstances...

Where Have All the Homophobes Gone?: State Politics in the Gingrich Era

by John D'Emilio 

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The Republican Party's Contract with America--and its younger sibling, the Contract with the American Family--have dominated political reporting for most of the year. Because both have chosen to sidestep head-on discussion of homosexuality, gay issues have slipped from the national media's radar screen. For many gay men, lesbians and bisexuals this must come as a welcome relief, a moment of respite in a hard political season. Who, after all, could enjoy being the target of the kind of rhetoric generated in the last few years--at the Republican convention in Houston, in the Senate hearings on the military's exclusion policies, or in the fight over the NEA?

 The lull, however, is more apparent than real. Congress is not the only body that legislates. In the fifty states, there was no Contract with America to discipline local right-wing political leaders, but in many of them there is an infrastructure of gay organizations eager to move forward their quest for respect and equality. The result is that state capitals rather than Congress have become the battleground upon which the issue of equal rights for gays is being fought...

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