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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... never been aware of sexual interest in someone of his own sex as a " latent homosexual , " but lay people would probably not . Changing sexual typologies and images of persons who engage in acts that we classify as homosexual will be ...
... never been aware of sexual interest in someone of his own sex as a " latent homosexual , " but lay people would probably not . Changing sexual typologies and images of persons who engage in acts that we classify as homosexual will be ...
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... never considers that alternative ways of organizing reproduc- tion and gender might be possible . His description of the gender system as a " complementary division of function " between the two sexes is one that contemporary feminist ...
... never considers that alternative ways of organizing reproduc- tion and gender might be possible . His description of the gender system as a " complementary division of function " between the two sexes is one that contemporary feminist ...
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... never allowed to come into consciousness . Nor is the subject aware of the reasons for the powerful reaction to it — unless these are disclosed through psychoanalysis . There is some evidence for the existence of a reaction formation ...
... never allowed to come into consciousness . Nor is the subject aware of the reasons for the powerful reaction to it — unless these are disclosed through psychoanalysis . There is some evidence for the existence of a reaction formation ...
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David F. Greenberg. two years of debate over the bill , homosexuality was never mentioned- not in Parliament , and not in the pamphlets issued by the extraparlia- mentary purity organizations that campaigned for the act . Debate on the ...
David F. Greenberg. two years of debate over the bill , homosexuality was never mentioned- not in Parliament , and not in the pamphlets issued by the extraparlia- mentary purity organizations that campaigned for the act . Debate on the ...
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... never marry , most do , and eventually become exclusively heterosexual . 15 The mode of intercourse varies from tribe to tribe . It is oral among the Kuks , Tchetchai , Sambia , Etoro , and Baruya ; anal among the Kaluli , in the Auya ...
... never marry , most do , and eventually become exclusively heterosexual . 15 The mode of intercourse varies from tribe to tribe . It is oral among the Kuks , Tchetchai , Sambia , Etoro , and Baruya ; anal among the Kaluli , in the Auya ...
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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