The Trials of Madame Restell
- 352 stránok
- 13 hodin čítania
Nicholas L. Syrett Poradie kníh
Nicholas L. Syrett je historik zameraný na americké dejiny 19. a 20. storočia. Jeho práca sa ponára do zložitých tém sexuality, rodu a spoločnosti, odhaľuje skryté príbehy a skúma, ako sa historické inštitúcie a spoločenské normy vyvíjali. Syrettov prístup je založený na dôkladnom výskume a jeho písanie často osvetľuje menej známe aspekty amerického života a histórie.
- 2023
- 2021
An Open Secret
- 218 stránok
- 8 hodin čítania
"An Open Secret traces the history of philanthropist Robert Allerton and his companion, John Wyatt Gregg, whom Allerton formally adopted as his son in 1960, after decades of living together. Yet why did these two men, who appear to be a gay couple from our view today, choose to project a father/son relationship? Syrett argues that in a period of both rising homosexual openness and social disapproval, the men had to find an alternative public logic for their situation. Whether or not Allerton and Gregg had sex with each other, they were undoubtedly a queer union: two high-society men who did not affirm traditional notions of partnership or couplehood"--