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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> During election years in the United States TV pundits are fond of im voking Tip O’Neill’s maxim “All politics are local.” Which is true enough when the politics don’t happen to be regional national inter- national planetary or (who knows maybe eventually) galactic instead Another cherished commonplace: “In politics three months can be a lifetime.” (So be sure to tune in several times a day!) Such bite-sized units of time and place can certainly make a difference in the politics of sexuality. New laws lawmakers and legal judgments; new scan- dals; new fashions; new visibilities and alliances; new media; even new diseases or treatments can sweep into view so suddenly that it’s hard to believe the depth of their influence on our sexual understandings. And yet the scale of centuries or even millennia can also be needed for grasping these histories. In the latter 1980s when Epistemology of the Closet was written something called “sodomy” was illegal in half the United States and the precise definition of that slippery but highly charged term was a front-page issue in the national debate around gay rights. It wasn’t legally clear from one state to another what sodomy meant in the 1980s: anal sex? oral sex? And either way could a cross- sex couple-even a married couple-commit it? Or did the people have to be of the same sex? (LL)