TY - BOOK ID - 77897423 TI - Before Wilde PY - 2009 SN - 0520943589 9780520943582 9780520258532 0520258533 PB - Berkeley, Calif. London University of California Press DB - UniCat KW - Gay men KW - Men KW - Homosexuality KW - Sex KW - Gender (Sex) KW - Human beings KW - Human sexuality KW - Sex (Gender) KW - Sexual behavior KW - Sexual practices KW - Sexuality KW - Sexology KW - Same-sex attraction KW - Sexual orientation KW - Bisexuality KW - Human males KW - Males KW - Effeminacy KW - Masculinity KW - Gays, Male KW - Homosexuals, Male KW - Male gays KW - Male homosexuals KW - Urnings KW - Gays KW - History. KW - Social conditions. KW - History KW - Great Britain KW - Social conditions KW - Sex - Great Britain - History - 19th century. KW - age of reform. KW - british police. KW - british society. KW - changing perceptions. KW - discussion books. KW - early 19th century. KW - early victorian period. KW - economic changes. KW - england. KW - family changes. KW - great britain. KW - historical account. KW - history buffs. KW - history of sexuality. KW - homosexuality. KW - law changes. KW - literary. KW - national media. KW - nonfiction. KW - oscar wilde. KW - perceptions of sex. KW - political changes. KW - queer theory. KW - same sex attraction. KW - same sex desire. KW - sex between men. KW - social perspective. KW - western sexuality. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77897423 AB - This book examines changing perceptions of sex between men in early Victorian Britain, a significant yet surprisingly little explored period in the history of Western sexuality. Looking at the dramatic transformations of the era-changes in the family and in the law, the emergence of the world's first police force, the growth of a national media, and more-Charles Upchurch asks how perceptions of same-sex desire changed between men, in families, and in the larger society. To illuminate these questions, he mines a rich trove of previously unexamined sources, including hundreds of articles pertaining to sex between men that appeared in mainstream newspapers. The first book to relate this topic to broader economic, social, and political changes in the early nineteenth century, Before Wilde sheds new light on the central question of how and when sex acts became identities. ER -