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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... theory , a perspective that became influential in sociology in the 1960s , brought a different emphasis to deviance research.3 Instead of studying the reasons why someone engages in behavior of which people disapprove , labeling ...
... theory , a perspective that became influential in sociology in the 1960s , brought a different emphasis to deviance research.3 Instead of studying the reasons why someone engages in behavior of which people disapprove , labeling ...
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... theory into the relatively neglected realm of human sexuality . We will want to know why some societies are comparatively hostile to homosexuality , while others tolerate or even fully accept and institution- alize it . But we will also ...
... theory into the relatively neglected realm of human sexuality . We will want to know why some societies are comparatively hostile to homosexuality , while others tolerate or even fully accept and institution- alize it . But we will also ...
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... theory leaves many questions unanswered . Why did Judaism develop such antagonistic attitudes toward homosexuality ? If the early Christian church . 27 ' Kingsley Davis ( 1961 : 325 , 339 , 341 ) . 28 Lauritsen ( 1974 ) , Crompton ...
... theory leaves many questions unanswered . Why did Judaism develop such antagonistic attitudes toward homosexuality ? If the early Christian church . 27 ' Kingsley Davis ( 1961 : 325 , 339 , 341 ) . 28 Lauritsen ( 1974 ) , Crompton ...
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... theory , which in some versions has betrayed a deep anti- homosexual bias , is a secular belief system . Thus , even if we concede that religious teachings play some role in shaping contemporary attitudes , 30 ad- ditional factors must ...
... theory , which in some versions has betrayed a deep anti- homosexual bias , is a secular belief system . Thus , even if we concede that religious teachings play some role in shaping contemporary attitudes , 30 ad- ditional factors must ...
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... theory might conceivably explain the transmission of an exist- ing prohibition from one generation to another , and the reasons for its resistance to rational criticism , but it does not explain how this prohibition came into being . At ...
... theory might conceivably explain the transmission of an exist- ing prohibition from one generation to another , and the reasons for its resistance to rational criticism , but it does not explain how this prohibition came into being . At ...
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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