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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... Relations Area Files ( HRAF ) , an archive of anthropological studies of many different peoples , set up to facilitate comparative research . Werner found thirty - nine societies for which information was available regarding efforts to ...
... Relations Area Files ( HRAF ) , an archive of anthropological studies of many different peoples , set up to facilitate comparative research . Werner found thirty - nine societies for which information was available regarding efforts to ...
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... relations.27 That some societies have developed norms regarding sex , reproduction , and gender that devalue homosexuality is undeniable . However , Davis's assertion that " every viable society " must organize sex , gender , and repro ...
... relations.27 That some societies have developed norms regarding sex , reproduction , and gender that devalue homosexuality is undeniable . However , Davis's assertion that " every viable society " must organize sex , gender , and repro ...
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... relations have been practiced openly and without censure in many parts of the Islamic world ( R. Levy , 1962 : 234 ; Patai , 1973 : 99 ; M. Daniel , 1975/76 ; Bullough , 1976 : 205–44 ; Wormhoudt , 1980 ; Southgate , 1984 ) . 30 Survey ...
... relations have been practiced openly and without censure in many parts of the Islamic world ( R. Levy , 1962 : 234 ; Patai , 1973 : 99 ; M. Daniel , 1975/76 ; Bullough , 1976 : 205–44 ; Wormhoudt , 1980 ; Southgate , 1984 ) . 30 Survey ...
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... relations were not seen as a distinct type of person , they would not have been viewed as a minority . Patterns of ... relation to slower , less spectacular shifts in beliefs and attitudes . In the chapters that follow , I try to go ...
... relations were not seen as a distinct type of person , they would not have been viewed as a minority . Patterns of ... relation to slower , less spectacular shifts in beliefs and attitudes . In the chapters that follow , I try to go ...
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... relations occupy a very different place than in ours . This difference is of particular interest in that the human species has lived in band and tribal social structures for most of its existence . Bands and tribes organize social life ...
... relations occupy a very different place than in ours . This difference is of particular interest in that the human species has lived in band and tribal social structures for most of its existence . Bands and tribes organize social life ...
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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