( 6 reviews )
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( 0 of 2 found this review helpful ) Posted: Feb 27 2009
Katz, Jonathan Ned/ "Love Stories: Sex Between Men and Homosexuality", University of Chicago Press, 2003. A New History Amos Lassen Jonathan Ned Katz's "Love Stories" is a new way of looking at men in the 19th and early 20th centuries. This time we look at them from the gay and romantic point of view. Katz gives us stories on men and their intimacies with other men and the way these men looked to find a name for what they felt for each other. This was long before the terms of "gay" and straight" entered our vocabularies in the way they are used today. Looking at diaries and letters as well as newspaper and poems, we get a clear picture of how men acted in male/male situations.
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( 1 of 1 found this review helpful ) Posted: Sep 6 2007
I must applaud this author for producing a fine book which takes the pain to explain people and their actions in the light of their times; before we invented the label 'gay'. A lot of reserach went into this work, and it shows. Facts are shown which have nowadays been glossed over by urban myths and have become distorted. I found the book fascinating and full of aspects that highlighted historical backgrounds. Recommended for all who wish to study the facts.
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( 2 of 3 found this review helpful ) Posted: Nov 15 2005
