The Construction of HomosexualityUniversity of Chicago Press, 1990 M08 15 - 635 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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Contents
1 Theorizing the Prohibition against Homosexuality | 1 |
Before Homosexuality | 23 |
Homosexual Relations in KinshipStructured Societies | 25 |
Inequality and the State Homosexual Innovations in Archaic Civilizations | 89 |
Early Civilizations Variations on Homosexual Themes | 124 |
Sexual Asceticism in the Ancient World | 184 |
Feudalism | 242 |
The Construction of Modern Homosexuality | 299 |
Repression and the Emergence of Subcultures | 301 |
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