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 14
... reasons for the powerful reaction to it — unless these are disclosed through psychoanalysis . There is some evidence for the existence of a reaction formation driv- ing some people's hostility to homosexuality . However , the ...
... reasons for the powerful reaction to it — unless these are disclosed through psychoanalysis . There is some evidence for the existence of a reaction formation driv- ing some people's hostility to homosexuality . However , the ...
Page 15
... reasons . First , it leaves earlier measures against homosexuality unexplained , and makes the questionable assumption that the trend of nineteenth - century English atti- tudes toward homosexuality was clearly one of greater ...
... reasons . First , it leaves earlier measures against homosexuality unexplained , and makes the questionable assumption that the trend of nineteenth - century English atti- tudes toward homosexuality was clearly one of greater ...
Page 19
... reasons we know far less about lesbianism than about male homosexuality , and much less about women's views of homosexuality than about men's . Ambiguity in the texts that survive is a further problem . For instance , 43J . N. Katz ...
... reasons we know far less about lesbianism than about male homosexuality , and much less about women's views of homosexuality than about men's . Ambiguity in the texts that survive is a further problem . For instance , 43J . N. Katz ...
Page 26
... reason Humphreys proposes the substitution of the technically more precise " insertor " and " insertee ” for “ active ” and “ pas- sive . " That terminology is also not linked to gender . But Humphreys ' terminology has not caught on ...
... reason Humphreys proposes the substitution of the technically more precise " insertor " and " insertee ” for “ active ” and “ pas- sive . " That terminology is also not linked to gender . But Humphreys ' terminology has not caught on ...
Page 30
... reason to expect dif- ferences in the stage of fixation among groups so similar in way of life . Another psychoanalytic explanation of male homosexuality sees it as a response to castration anxiety induced by the Oedipus conflict ...
... reason to expect dif- ferences in the stage of fixation among groups so similar in way of life . Another psychoanalytic explanation of male homosexuality sees it as a response to castration anxiety induced by the Oedipus conflict ...
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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