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Sexual Politics and Gendered Poetics during the Cold War

What unites these two very different books, beyond their shared publisher, is their common interest in the politics of identity during the cold war. Both writers are concerned with the ways in which the domestic containment of the political "other" also authorized containment of the sexual "other" during the 1950s. But both writers also describe the subversion of such containment. For David Johnson, this subversion happens gradually through individual resistance and the formation of activist groups like the Mattachine Society. For Michael Davidson, the subversion is much more a matter of immediate textual rupture. David Johnson gives us a very detailed and particular perspective on cold war sexual politics through his account of the many gay men and women who lost their jobs with the federal government because they were perceived as "security risks." His highly readable and meticulously researched account of the antigay purges provides a useful corrective to the common view of 1950s political extremism as dominated by (and limited to) a single aberrant demagogue, Joseph McCarthy. Instead, Johnson shows that homophobia at times eclipsed anticommunism as a national paranoia and pervaded all branches of federal government. In the process Johnson locates the beginnings of the gay rights movement in the 1950s rather than the late 1960s. Davidson's focus is much broader; although concentrating on the 1950s, he extends his purview beyond this decade into the late 1980s and as far back as the nineteenth century. Davidson's work shows the rich possibilities arising