| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.4

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Book Review

Toward Stonewall: Homosexuality and Society in the Modern Western World. By Nicholas C. Edsall. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2003. xiv, 377 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-8139-2211-9.)

After a quarter century of groundbreaking monographs in gay and lesbian history, time is ripe for synthesis. Leila Rupp's A Desired Past (1999) already provides a superb and concise introduction to much recent scholarship on same-sex sexuality in the United States. With increased emphasis on the need to place American history in a global perspective, a similar synthesis with an international scope seems essential. Nicholas C. Edsall promises to fulfill this need by tracing the history of homosexuality over the last three hundred years in North America and Western Europe. Aimed at a general audience, Toward Stonewall offers a useful historical narrative that introduces the reader to many of the key events, personalities, and theoretical debates in gay and lesbian history. But for a work bringing together cutting-edge scholarship on the history of sexual subjectivity, Edsall's work seems oddly old-fashioned.

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