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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... evidence from a wide range of societies . No scholar working exclusively with primary sources could hope to amass the necessary evidence in a single lifetime . Fortunately , the studies historians have already done make this unnecessary ...
... evidence from a wide range of societies . No scholar working exclusively with primary sources could hope to amass the necessary evidence in a single lifetime . Fortunately , the studies historians have already done make this unnecessary ...
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... evidence no longer supported the functionalist explanation . 26 There are some cultures - Western Christianity is one of them - in which attitudes toward homosexuality are linked to those concerning procreation . What seems questionable ...
... evidence no longer supported the functionalist explanation . 26 There are some cultures - Western Christianity is one of them - in which attitudes toward homosexuality are linked to those concerning procreation . What seems questionable ...
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... evidence , to be considered in the next chapter , demonstrates the contrary . Davis simply never considers that alternative ways of organizing reproduc- tion and gender might be possible . His description of the gender system as a ...
... evidence , to be considered in the next chapter , demonstrates the contrary . Davis simply never considers that alternative ways of organizing reproduc- tion and gender might be possible . His description of the gender system as a ...
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... evidence for the existence of a reaction formation driv- ing some people's hostility to homosexuality . However , the psychoanalytic explanation is incomplete . It assumes the existence of an internalized pro- hibition that stands in ...
... evidence for the existence of a reaction formation driv- ing some people's hostility to homosexuality . However , the psychoanalytic explanation is incomplete . It assumes the existence of an internalized pro- hibition that stands in ...
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... evidence for the existence of publicly visible social networks of tribades , or lesbian women , as early as the eighteenth century . Natural- istic , quasi - medical explanations of homosexuality were being proposed before the late ...
... evidence for the existence of publicly visible social networks of tribades , or lesbian women , as early as the eighteenth century . Natural- istic , quasi - medical explanations of homosexuality were being proposed before the late ...
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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