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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... cities were present in Europe before the end of the seventeenth century . Social net- works with subcultural characteristics , organized on the basis of male homosexuality , can be documented earlier than this . There is also frag ...
... cities were present in Europe before the end of the seventeenth century . Social net- works with subcultural characteristics , organized on the basis of male homosexuality , can be documented earlier than this . There is also frag ...
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... cities . Lacking exposure to different life - styles , rural residents tend to be intolerant of diversity . As homosexuals are a minority , they will be treated with greater intolerance in rural society . This reasoning leads Boswell to ...
... cities . Lacking exposure to different life - styles , rural residents tend to be intolerant of diversity . As homosexuals are a minority , they will be treated with greater intolerance in rural society . This reasoning leads Boswell to ...
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... cities , probably more so than in small towns . The anonymity of large cities re- duces the effectiveness of informal social control , and the gay communities of large cities are more likely to be visible to straights . This very ...
... cities , probably more so than in small towns . The anonymity of large cities re- duces the effectiveness of informal social control , and the gay communities of large cities are more likely to be visible to straights . This very ...
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Contents
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23 | |
Part II The Construction of Modern Homosexuality | 299 |
Under the Sign of Sociology | 482 |
References | 501 |
Index | 615 |
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