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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... Repression and the Emergence of Subcultures 301 8 The Rise of Market Economies 347 9 The Medicalization of Homosexuality 397 10 Bureaucracy and Homosexuality 11 Gay Liberation 434 455 Epilogue : Under the Sign of Sociology References ...
... Repression and the Emergence of Subcultures 301 8 The Rise of Market Economies 347 9 The Medicalization of Homosexuality 397 10 Bureaucracy and Homosexuality 11 Gay Liberation 434 455 Epilogue : Under the Sign of Sociology References ...
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... repression and of struggles against it . The very first historical and comparative studies of homosexuality were the ... repressed . ' Edward Carpenter , who collected reports by travelers and anthropologists about homosexuality among ...
... repression and of struggles against it . The very first historical and comparative studies of homosexuality were the ... repressed . ' Edward Carpenter , who collected reports by travelers and anthropologists about homosexuality among ...
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... repression , and resistance . To understand why perceptions of homosexuality and social responses to it vary , we must examine evidence from a wide range of societies . No scholar working exclusively with primary sources could hope to ...
... repression , and resistance . To understand why perceptions of homosexuality and social responses to it vary , we must examine evidence from a wide range of societies . No scholar working exclusively with primary sources could hope to ...
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... repressing homosexuality . It can be a convenient charge with which to smear a 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 ...
... repressing homosexuality . It can be a convenient charge with which to smear a 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 ...
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... repression to keep them under control , yet not so strong as to make social controls ineffective . That would be odd . The existence of these drives has not been demonstrated , and if the evolution- ary argument is correct , they would ...
... repression to keep them under control , yet not so strong as to make social controls ineffective . That would be odd . The existence of these drives has not been demonstrated , and if the evolution- ary argument is correct , they would ...
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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