Unruly Desires: American Sailors and Homosexualities in the Age of Sail by William Benemann

Unruly Desires: American Sailors and Homosexualities in the Age of Sail

William Benemann

328 pages first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction history lgbtqia+ emotional slow-paced
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In its voracious hunger to fill its decks and spars with the bodies of strong young sailors, nineteenth century maritime culture welcomed eccentrics, criminals, freaks and misfits. Sailors were to a large extent outcasts from society, but they wer...

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