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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... thought it to be one of the wickedest of crimes ? Why did a medical conception of homosexuality emerge ? Why is there resistance to gay liberation today ? ' Quoted in Bryant and Green ( 1978 ) . 2 Blackstone ( 1811 : 205 ) , book 4 . 1 ...
... thought it to be one of the wickedest of crimes ? Why did a medical conception of homosexuality emerge ? Why is there resistance to gay liberation today ? ' Quoted in Bryant and Green ( 1978 ) . 2 Blackstone ( 1811 : 205 ) , book 4 . 1 ...
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... thought homicide wrong , it would not be deviant , no matter how fre- quently or infrequently people killed one another , and no matter how im- moral or objectively harmful killing is . Deviance , then , is in the eye of the beholder ...
... thought homicide wrong , it would not be deviant , no matter how fre- quently or infrequently people killed one another , and no matter how im- moral or objectively harmful killing is . Deviance , then , is in the eye of the beholder ...
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... thought pos- sible to perform , and the social identities that come to be attached to those who perform them , vary from one society to another . There are societies , including some where homosexual acts are frequent , that lack any ...
... thought pos- sible to perform , and the social identities that come to be attached to those who perform them , vary from one society to another . There are societies , including some where homosexual acts are frequent , that lack any ...
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... thought about sex and tried to regulate it . The gay - liberation movement of the past fifteen years has vastly broad- ened the scope of scholarly writing on homosexuality . It has weakened prejudice enough to permit scholars to publish ...
... thought about sex and tried to regulate it . The gay - liberation movement of the past fifteen years has vastly broad- ened the scope of scholarly writing on homosexuality . It has weakened prejudice enough to permit scholars to publish ...
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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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