| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.5

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Jay Hatheway. The Gilded Age Construction of Modern American Homophobia. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2004. Pp. 232. $45.00.

Historians of sexuality have paid close attention to the scientific "discovery" in the late nineteenth century of homosexuality as a new paradigm for understanding same-sex attraction. Scholars of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries have meanwhile uncovered a gradual shift during the early modern period toward the assumption that sexual acts expressed a persistent and specific sexual character, presaging that later paradigmatic revolution. A growing number of historians are also exploring the ways in which negative responses to same-sex attraction during both periods reflected the dominant values and fears of the societies in which they appeared. Jay Hatheway's study of the broad cultural context that shaped the American medical community's reactions during the Gilded Age to new scientific theories about homosexuality is a helpful contribution to an emerging history of homophobia.

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