Laud Humphreys 
Tearoom Trade [PDF ebook] 
Impersonal sex in public places

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From the time of its first publication, Tearoom Trade engendered controversy. It was also accorded an unusual amount of praise for a first book on a marginal, intentionally self-effacing population by a previously unknown sociologist. The book was quickly recognized as an important, imaginative, and useful contribution to our understanding of ‘deviant’ sexual activity. Describing impersonal, anonymous sexual encounters in public restrooms—’tearooms’ in the argot—the book explored the behavior of men whose closet homosexuality was kept from their families and neighbors.
By posing as an initiate, the author was able to engage in systematic observation of homosexual acts in public settings, and later to develop a more complete picture of those involved by interviewing them in their homes, again without revealing their unwitting participation in his study.
This enlarged edition of Tearoom Trade includes the original text, together with a retrospect, written by Nicholas von Hoffman, Irving Louis Horowitz, Lee Rainwater, Donald P. Warwick, and Myron Glazer. The material added includes a perspective on the social scientist at work and the ethical problems to which that work may give rise, along with debate by the book’s initial critics and proponents. Humphreys added a postscript and his views on the opinion expressed in the retrospect.

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Lee Rainwater is professor emeritus of sociology at Harvard University and research director emeritus of the Luxembourg Income Study. He was an editor at Transaction, the associate editor of the Journal of Marriage and the Family, and a member of the review board of Sociological Quarterly. He has written various books and many professional journal articles, including Poor Kids in a Rich Country: America’s Children In Comparative Perspective; Income Packaging in the Welfare State: A Comparative Study of Family Income; and Social Policy and Public Policy: Inequality and Justice.

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语言 英语 ● 格式 PDF ● 网页 256 ● ISBN 9780202369426 ● 文件大小 32.2 MB ● 出版者 Aldine Transaction ● 发布时间 2011 ● 版 2 ● 下载 24 个月 ● 货币 EUR ● ID 2846638 ● 复制保护 Adobe DRM
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