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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Page vii
... Societies 25 3 Inequality and the State : Homosexual Innovations in Archaic Civilizations 89 4 Early Civilizations : Variations on Homosexual Themes 5 Sexual Asceticism in the Ancient World 184 6 Feudalism 242 ་ྲཝ 124 Part II . The ...
... Societies 25 3 Inequality and the State : Homosexual Innovations in Archaic Civilizations 89 4 Early Civilizations : Variations on Homosexual Themes 5 Sexual Asceticism in the Ancient World 184 6 Feudalism 242 ་ྲཝ 124 Part II . The ...
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... societies are comparatively hostile to homosexuality , while others tolerate or even fully accept and institution- alize it . But we will also be concerned with the ways in which homo- sexuality is conceptualized . It is not merely that ...
... societies are comparatively hostile to homosexuality , while others tolerate or even fully accept and institution- alize it . But we will also be concerned with the ways in which homo- sexuality is conceptualized . It is not merely that ...
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... societies . No scholar working exclusively with primary sources could hope to amass the necessary evidence in a single lifetime . Fortunately , the studies historians have already done make this unnecessary . While these studies could ...
... societies . No scholar working exclusively with primary sources could hope to amass the necessary evidence in a single lifetime . Fortunately , the studies historians have already done make this unnecessary . While these studies could ...
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... societies a multitude of en- trepreneurs crusade on behalf of a host of causes . Some gain a following but fail to make a lasting impact , others are ignored , and still others suc- ceed beyond all expectations . What explains these ...
... societies a multitude of en- trepreneurs crusade on behalf of a host of causes . Some gain a following but fail to make a lasting impact , others are ignored , and still others suc- ceed beyond all expectations . What explains these ...
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... societies compete for limited resources , this principle also holds for them . Those that adopt innovative social prac- tices favorable to survival will gradually displace those that do not . Mal- adapted societies will tend to ...
... societies compete for limited resources , this principle also holds for them . Those that adopt innovative social prac- tices favorable to survival will gradually displace those that do not . Mal- adapted societies will tend to ...
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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