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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... groups create deviance by making the rules whose infrac- tion constitutes deviance , and by applying those rules to par- ticular people and labeling them as outsiders . From this point of view , deviance is not a quality of the act the ...
... groups create deviance by making the rules whose infrac- tion constitutes deviance , and by applying those rules to par- ticular people and labeling them as outsiders . From this point of view , deviance is not a quality of the act the ...
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... groups that have suffered discrimination and repression , gays have begun to recover their past , documenting the history of repression and of struggles against it . The very first historical and comparative studies of homosexuality ...
... groups that have suffered discrimination and repression , gays have begun to recover their past , documenting the history of repression and of struggles against it . The very first historical and comparative studies of homosexuality ...
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... groups : classes , races , reli- gions , ethnic groups , occupations , sexes . These groups may have clashing interests and diverging moral values . In pursuit of its interests , one group may seek to define the activities of another group ...
... groups : classes , races , reli- gions , ethnic groups , occupations , sexes . These groups may have clashing interests and diverging moral values . In pursuit of its interests , one group may seek to define the activities of another group ...
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... groups engaged in the contest.15 This general perspective has informed numerous studies of deviance- defining or normalizing legislative acts . The studies have differed in the groups found to be responsible for the legislation and the ...
... groups engaged in the contest.15 This general perspective has informed numerous studies of deviance- defining or normalizing legislative acts . The studies have differed in the groups found to be responsible for the legislation and the ...
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... group - conflict explanations of laws seem inapplicable to those 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 ...
... group - conflict explanations of laws seem inapplicable to those 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 ...
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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