Gilded Age Construction of Modern American Homophobia

JAY HATHEWAY is Associate Professor and Chair of the History Department at Edgewood College at Madison, Wisconsin. In addition to having authored Guilty as Charged: the True Story of a Gay Beret (2001), he also testified before the Congressional Subcommittee on Military Forces and Personnel in 1993: 'Gays and Lesbian in the Military'.

• Introduction The Origins of a National Ideology up to the Civil War The Rise of an Urban Middle Class in the Post Civil War Era Nineteenth Century Gay America A Period of Turmoil and Change Nineteenth Century American Medicine The Debate Between Alienism and Neurology The German Discovery of the Homosexual American Physicians Discover the Homosexual The Homosexual and the Physician: the 1890s A Homosexual Identity During the Gilded Age The Limits of Congenital Homosexuality Conclusion