John D'Emilio (Author of Intimate Matters)

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John D'Emilio

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in New York City, The United States

September 21, 1948

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John D'Emilio is a professor emeritus of history and of women's and gender studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He taught at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He earned his B.A. from Columbia College and Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1982, where his advisor was William E. Leuchtenburg. He was a Guggenheim fellow in 1998 and National Endowment for the Humanities fellow in 1997 and also served as Director of the Policy Institute at the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force from 1995 to 1997. ...more

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	Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America by John D'Emilio, Estelle B. Freedman 4.06 avg rating — 1,021 ratings — published 1988 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin 4.24 avg rating — 783 ratings — published 2003 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities: The Making of a Homosexual Minority in the United States, 1940-1970 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 264 ratings — published 1983 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Queer Legacies: Stories from Chicago鈥檚 LGBTQ Archives 3.70 avg rating — 56 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Making Trouble 4.04 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 1992 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Memories of a Gay Catholic Boyhood: Coming of Age in the Sixties 4.30 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 2022 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The World Turned: Essays on Gay History, Politics, and Culture 3.85 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 2002 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Creating Change: Sexuality, Public Policy, and Civil Rights by John D'Emilio (Editor), William B. Turner (欧宝娱乐 Author) (Editor), Urvashi Vaid (Editor) 3.59 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2000 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In a New Century: Essays on Queer History, Politics, and Community Life 3.58 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Civil Rights Struggle: Leaders in Profile liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1979	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“By the twentieth century, when the individual had replaced the family as the primary economic unit, the tie between sexuality and reproduction weakened further. Influenced by psychology as well as by the growing power of the media, both men and women began to adopt personal happiness as a primary goal of sexual relations. Various”
― John D'Emilio, Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America

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“Abundant research on the history of sexuality in early America has shown remarkable variation. Europeans, Africans, and Native Americans developed unique sexual cultures in the broad context of colonialism and they also created new practices and identities through cross-cultural interactions.”
― John D'Emilio, Documenting Intimate Matters: Primary Sources for a History of Sexuality in America

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“In Connecticut, for example, a man confessed to having had sexual relations with a variety of animals since the age of ten; Massachusetts executed several teenage boys for buggery. Sexual relations with animals required harsh punishment, for colonists believed that these unions could have reproductive consequences. The mating of humans and animals, they feared, would produce monstrous offspring. For this reason, colonists insisted on punishing not only the man but also the beast, who might bear such monsters.”
― John D'Emilio, Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America

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