...This chapter examines the urban adaptations and peculiarities that made communal bathing in St. Petersburg so notably convenient as a context for queer encounters. It discusses how the goalposts in the negotiation over this space shifted in response to government action in the form of the Bathhouse...

... bathhouses as examples of collectives located primarily in this region. For both regions, socialization processes are examined. Dark Region 8 Clandestine CIA links Continuity Irish Republican Army anonymous organization East Side Club Framework for regionalizing organizations caveats Member...

...Shilts steps out as a spokesman against gay bathhouses, admitting he once patronized them himself. ACT-UP members focus their vitriol on Shilts, Shilts turns his criticism on ACT-UP tactics. Although tapped to host a public television special, “Wrestling with AIDS,” Shilts ends a prolific year...

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...This chapter explores the earliest Jewish encounters with the Roman public bathhouses. It reveals that modern scholarship pointedly diverges on early Jewish interactions with the bathhouses. One of these divergences is thus explored: How did Jews engage with the Roman public bath? Obviously, all...

...This chapter refutes the conclusion modern scholarship has arrived at regarding Jewish attitudes toward bathhouses: that the Jews resented them. It argues that the situation was exactly the opposite: not only did rabbis, and Jews in general, not despise Roman bathing establishments, they were...

...This chapter discusses the ways in which the study of magic in Roman bathhouses has shed light on some of the dark aspects of this otherwise pleasant and enjoyable facility. Not all was fun in the bathing world; alongside its many amenities and luxuries, a variety of physical hazards, social...

... of the grand. It is the public life of cities that archeologists try to reveal, and even this might be more fleeting than they are willing to admit. The more private aspects of urban existence often remain hidden or within the realm of the historian, not the archeologist. Agora Bathhouses Cemeteries Defense...

...This introductory chapter outlines the key topics to be explored in the “filtered absorption” model used to explore the cultural encounter between Jews and the Roman way of life. It begins with the Roman public bathhouse and its significance in the Roman world and, more broadly, reveals how...

...This concluding chapter summarizes the main points of the preceding chapters, with emphasis on the model and methodology used to explore the daily lives of Jews in the Roman bathhouse. It discusses the filtered absorption model at length and how it was deployed by the Jews in the public bathhouses...

...Chapter 1 discusses how authorities in San Francisco and New York City pursued the closure of gay bathhouses during the HIV/AIDS crisis. Within this particular episode of queer history and public health policy, the rhetoric of dignity proves to be at its most seductive. During the early years...

... alternatives. Specifically, we explore three possibilities: (1) the social interactions in and the urban development encouraged by contemporary bathhouses and geolocative social media apps, (2) the development of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) or treatment as prevention (TasP) strategies to reengage in sexual...

...This chapter examines the institutional buildings that companies provided or facilitated: churches, libraries, bathhouses, schools, hospitals, and office buildings. These buildings provided amenities rather than necessities, and were associated with the central hub of the company. The company...

...Without the Banya We Would Perish: A History of the Russian Bathhouse. Ethan Pollock, Oxford University Press (2019). © Oxford University Press. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780195395488.003.0002 Banyas have been in the Russian region since before there were Russians. They appear in the first...

... newspaper in the immediate wake of the city's closure of gay bathhouses, the essay builds on and extends the thematic concerns of the previous two essays. Here, Berube describes gay male sexuality and the places where it could be expressed as forms and sites of resistance. Sexual expression became a route...

...This essay shows how Berube put together a lecture illustrated with slides—as he did with his research on passing women, gay bathhouses, and World War II. Berube gave this lecture dozens of times around the country. This version of his talk on the Marine Cooks and Stewards Union provides...

.... It then describes the Roman baths and the rituals that were involved. It views the baths as a place for social intercourse, and looks at the events that occurred inside the Roman baths. The article also discusses the role of public bathhouses in Roman society. non elites sources ancient anecdotes noise dining...

...This article discusses Roman public bathhouses, which provided a wide range of services that included swimming pools, saunas, and meeting rooms. It looks at the technology and cultural facets that were present in the bathhouses. It then describes the facilities, the social encounters that occurred...

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