| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.3

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Book Review

The Gilded Age Construction of Modern American Homophobia. By Jay Hatheway. (New York: Palgrave, 2003. x, 232 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-312-23492-9.)

The book is a contribution to the history of American sexuality, while proving a broader basis for understanding American ideology and society before and after the Gilded Age. First, it is refreshing to see homophobia problematized in the same way homosexuality was for so long; whether coming from cure-oriented medical professionals or sympathetic historians, this field has often turned on such questions as What causes homosexuality? or What are the origins of the identity? Jay Hatheway asks instead how and when "modern American homophobia was born" (p. 2), and the result is an impressive and convincing intellectual history of homophobia as the product of specific cultural developments of a particular time rather than some kind of "natural" human reaction to an "unnatural" sexuality.

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