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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... Political and Economic Science , and the libraries of the Warburg Institute , Wellcome Institute , Senate House , University of Chicago , New York University , Jew- ish Theological Seminary , Union Theological Seminary , UCLA , Harvard ...
... Political and Economic Science , and the libraries of the Warburg Institute , Wellcome Institute , Senate House , University of Chicago , New York University , Jew- ish Theological Seminary , Union Theological Seminary , UCLA , Harvard ...
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... political landscape : Ralph Nader , Anita Bryant , and in England , Mary Whitehouse , are con- temporary examples . That crusaders such as these can sway and mobilize public sentiment is surely true . Yet in modern societies a multitude ...
... political landscape : Ralph Nader , Anita Bryant , and in England , Mary Whitehouse , are con- temporary examples . That crusaders such as these can sway and mobilize public sentiment is surely true . Yet in modern societies a multitude ...
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... political importance of urban - based immigrants from countries where alcohol consumption was an accepted part of daily life . Humphries found the professionals ( doctors , lawyers ) who participated in the movement to repeal abortion ...
... political importance of urban - based immigrants from countries where alcohol consumption was an accepted part of daily life . Humphries found the professionals ( doctors , lawyers ) who participated in the movement to repeal abortion ...
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... political opponent and has been used in just that way on more than one occasion . " But it is farfetched to suppose that the prohibition was invented for that purpose . Surely there are other ways of tarnishing a reputation . Perhaps ...
... political opponent and has been used in just that way on more than one occasion . " But it is farfetched to suppose that the prohibition was invented for that purpose . Surely there are other ways of tarnishing a reputation . Perhaps ...
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... political existence that mask the oppressive , exploitative aspects of reality . These ideas were supposedly invented by an unscrupulous ruling class to secure its superior position and pas- sively accepted by the rest of the population ...
... political existence that mask the oppressive , exploitative aspects of reality . These ideas were supposedly invented by an unscrupulous ruling class to secure its superior position and pas- sively accepted by the rest of the population ...
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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