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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Page 4
... earliest wave of the homosexual emancipation movement . As early as 1883 , John Addington Symonds com- piled materials on ancient Greece in an attempt to show that homosexuality could be noble and dignified when valued by society rather ...
... earliest wave of the homosexual emancipation movement . As early as 1883 , John Addington Symonds com- piled materials on ancient Greece in an attempt to show that homosexuality could be noble and dignified when valued by society rather ...
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... early - twentieth - century America had good reasons for feeling its status threatened . Until recently , though , there was no comparable threat to het- erosexuals . Unless we imagine everyone to be constantly preoccupied with gaining ...
... early - twentieth - century America had good reasons for feeling its status threatened . Until recently , though , there was no comparable threat to het- erosexuals . Unless we imagine everyone to be constantly preoccupied with gaining ...
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... early in history , survived . Those that did not , disappeared . This explanation implicitly assumes that everyone has homosexual drives so strong as to require powerful repression to keep them under control , yet not so strong as to ...
... early in history , survived . Those that did not , disappeared . This explanation implicitly assumes that everyone has homosexual drives so strong as to require powerful repression to keep them under control , yet not so strong as to ...
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... early civilizations , as well as in feudal social systems . Several historians have suggested that male - homosexual subcultures ap- peared for the first time in history in the late seventeenth , eighteenth , or early nineteenth century ...
... early civilizations , as well as in feudal social systems . Several historians have suggested that male - homosexual subcultures ap- peared for the first time in history in the late seventeenth , eighteenth , or early nineteenth century ...
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... early , 48 if not , early cannibalism would probably not have had anything to do with the acquisition of virility . Phallic preoccupa- tions appear in cave paintings , rock carvings , and sculpture starting in the late Paleolithic ...
... early , 48 if not , early cannibalism would probably not have had anything to do with the acquisition of virility . Phallic preoccupa- tions appear in cave paintings , rock carvings , and sculpture starting in the late Paleolithic ...
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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