冷戦と同性愛者差別 The Lavender Scare : The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government (Emersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith)

Johnson, David K.

University of Chicago Press（2006/05発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 312 p.／サイズ 18 halftones
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780226401904
• DDC分類 352.6086640973

基本説明

New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2003. The frightening, untold story of how, during the Cold War, homosexuals were considered as dangerous a threat to national security as Communists.

Full Description

In Cold War America, Senator Joseph McCarthy enjoyed tremendous support in the fight against what he called atheistic communism. But that support stemmed less from his wild charges about communists than his more substantiated charges that "sex perverts" had infiltrated government agencies. Although now remembered as an attack on suspected disloyalty, McCarthyism introduced "moral values" into the American political arsenal. Warning of a spreading homosexual menace, McCarthy and his Republican allies learned how to win votes. Winner of three book awards, "The Lavender Scare" masterfully traces the origins of contemporary sexual politics to Cold War hysteria over national security. Drawing on newly declassified documents and interviews with former government officials, historian David Johnson chronicles how the myth that homosexuals threatened national security determined government policy for decades, ruined thousands of lives, and pushed many to suicide. As Johnson shows, this myth not only outlived McCarthy but, by the 1960s, helped launch a new civil rights struggle.