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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... response - religious penitence , psychoanalysis , imprisonment , sterilization , sacramental inter- course , picketing Anita Bryant . Our goal is to understand these conceptions and responses . Why have some societies invested ...
... response - religious penitence , psychoanalysis , imprisonment , sterilization , sacramental inter- course , picketing Anita Bryant . Our goal is to understand these conceptions and responses . Why have some societies invested ...
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... responses that back up the prohibitions , that make a behavior deviant . In a world where no one thought homicide wrong , it would not be deviant , no matter how fre- quently or infrequently people killed one another , and no matter how ...
... responses that back up the prohibitions , that make a behavior deviant . In a world where no one thought homicide wrong , it would not be deviant , no matter how fre- quently or infrequently people killed one another , and no matter how ...
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... responses to it . According to one school in the philosophy of science that is currently in vogue , the objective features of a phenomenon so little constrain the ways it is classified and theorized that these features can be ...
... responses to it . According to one school in the philosophy of science that is currently in vogue , the objective features of a phenomenon so little constrain the ways it is classified and theorized that these features can be ...
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... responses it received could not be illuminated by knowledge of their social context . Historians , anthropologists , and sociologists , who might have ap- proached the subject with other questions and interests , rarely did so . From ...
... responses it received could not be illuminated by knowledge of their social context . Historians , anthropologists , and sociologists , who might have ap- proached the subject with other questions and interests , rarely did so . From ...
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... responses to it vary , we must examine evidence from a wide range of societies . No scholar working exclusively with primary sources could hope to amass the necessary evidence in a single lifetime . Fortunately , the studies historians ...
... responses to it vary , we must examine evidence from a wide range of societies . No scholar working exclusively with primary sources could hope to amass the necessary evidence in a single lifetime . Fortunately , the studies historians ...
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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