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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... behavior is behavior that people so label.1 It is thus the existence of social prohibitions and the responses that back up the prohibitions , that make a behavior deviant . In a world where no one thought homicide wrong , it would not ...
... behavior is behavior that people so label.1 It is thus the existence of social prohibitions and the responses that back up the prohibitions , that make a behavior deviant . In a world where no one thought homicide wrong , it would not ...
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... behavior associated with per- ceptions of it . GAY HISTORY AND THE GAY MOVEMENT In more ways than one , the gay - liberation movement has made a study of this sort intellectually possible . People rarely study the origins of rules they ...
... behavior associated with per- ceptions of it . GAY HISTORY AND THE GAY MOVEMENT In more ways than one , the gay - liberation movement has made a study of this sort intellectually possible . People rarely study the origins of rules they ...
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... behavior is the target of a deviance - defining effort could be won over , so that they voluntarily abandon the activities they , too , have come to define as deviant . Often , though , the target group defends its own moral standards ...
... behavior is the target of a deviance - defining effort could be won over , so that they voluntarily abandon the activities they , too , have come to define as deviant . Often , though , the target group defends its own moral standards ...
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... behaviors that never become the focus of group conflict because virtually every social group in society agrees as to their harmfulness . They argue that some kinds of behavior are so destruc- tive that , if they were not checked , they ...
... behaviors that never become the focus of group conflict because virtually every social group in society agrees as to their harmfulness . They argue that some kinds of behavior are so destruc- tive that , if they were not checked , they ...
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... behavior may suf- fice to explain why it is considered deviant . Darwinian biology suggests another basis for a functionalist argument . Although plants and animals do not try to evolve or adapt to their environ- ment , the principle of ...
... behavior may suf- fice to explain why it is considered deviant . Darwinian biology suggests another basis for a functionalist argument . Although plants and animals do not try to evolve or adapt to their environ- ment , the principle 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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