The Construction of HomosexualityUniversity 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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... basis for a functionalist argument . Although plants and animals do not try to evolve or adapt to their environ- ment , the principle of survival of the fittest guarantees that species will do so or face extinction . When human ...
... basis for a functionalist argument . Although plants and animals do not try to evolve or adapt to their environ- ment , the principle of survival of the fittest guarantees that species will do so or face extinction . When human ...
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... basis , that tolerance of homosexuality develops in response to concern over an exploding population . 24 20 Sociobiologist Edward Wilson ( 1978 : 150–55 ) has turned this argument around , suggest- ing that the persistence of ...
... basis , that tolerance of homosexuality develops in response to concern over an exploding population . 24 20 Sociobiologist Edward Wilson ( 1978 : 150–55 ) has turned this argument around , suggest- ing that the persistence of ...
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... basis are probably not great enough to have a major impact on the birthrate , even with the relaxation in attitudes that has occurred in recent years . An alternative functionalist argument , expressed by Kingsley Davis , fo- cuses not ...
... basis are probably not great enough to have a major impact on the birthrate , even with the relaxation in attitudes that has occurred in recent years . An alternative functionalist argument , expressed by Kingsley Davis , fo- cuses not ...
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... basis for classifying someone as a distinct type of person . This remains true in all the early civilizations , as well as in feudal social systems . Several historians have suggested that male - homosexual subcultures ap- peared for ...
... basis for classifying someone as a distinct type of person . This remains true in all the early civilizations , as well as in feudal social systems . Several historians have suggested that male - homosexual subcultures ap- peared for ...
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... basis of sex to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 , which had been introduced to deal with racial discrimination . 37H . M. Hyde ( 1956 , 1970 : 137–52 ) , Simpson , Chester , and Leitch ( 1976 ) . 38 Accurate estimates of the number of ...
... basis of sex to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 , which had been introduced to deal with racial discrimination . 37H . M. Hyde ( 1956 , 1970 : 137–52 ) , Simpson , Chester , and Leitch ( 1976 ) . 38 Accurate estimates of the number of ...
Contents
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Part II The Construction of Modern Homosexuality | 299 |
Under the Sign of Sociology | 482 |
References | 501 |
Index | 615 |
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