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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... explain homosexuality and actual responses to it . According to one school in the philosophy of science that is currently in vogue , the objective features of a phenomenon so little constrain the ways it is classified and theorized that ...
... explain homosexuality and actual responses to it . According to one school in the philosophy of science that is currently in vogue , the objective features of a phenomenon so little constrain the ways it is classified and theorized that ...
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... explain why these episodes occurred — and why , at certain points in history they stopped oc- curring . The specialized histories , which tend to be more descriptive than analytical , furnish the materials needed for our sociological ...
... explain why these episodes occurred — and why , at certain points in history they stopped oc- curring . The specialized histories , which tend to be more descriptive than analytical , furnish the materials needed for our sociological ...
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... explanation falls flat . Moreover , it is doubtful that homosexuals were a distinct social group with a definite status before homosexuality became deviant . Apart from its seeming inability to explain the existence of social rules ...
... explanation falls flat . Moreover , it is doubtful that homosexuals were a distinct social group with a definite status before homosexuality became deviant . Apart from its seeming inability to explain the existence of social rules ...
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... 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 survival of the fittest ...
... 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 survival of the fittest ...
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David F. Greenberg. Could a process like natural selection explain a prohibition against ho- mosexuality ? It is ... explanation implicitly assumes that everyone has homosexual drives so strong as to require powerful repression to keep ...
David F. Greenberg. Could a process like natural selection explain a prohibition against ho- mosexuality ? It is ... explanation implicitly assumes that everyone has homosexual drives so strong as to require powerful repression to keep ...
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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