The Construction of Homosexuality

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University of Chicago Press, 2008 M10 29 - 645 pages
"At various times, homosexuality has been considered the noblest of loves, a horrible sin, a psychological condition or grounds for torture and execution. David F. Greenberg's careful, encyclopedic and important new book argues that homosexuality is only deviant because society has constructed, or defined, it as deviant. The book takes us over vast terrains of example and detail in the history of homosexuality."—Nicholas B. Dirks, New York Times Book Review

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Contents

1 Theorizing the Prohibition against Homosexuality
1
Part I Before Homosexuality
23
Part II The Construction of Modern Homosexuality
299
Under the Sign of Sociology
482
References
501
Index
615
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