The Construction of Homosexuality
by Greenberg, David F.Edition: Reprint
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1990-08-15
Publisher(s): Univ of Chicago Pr
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Summary
"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
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | |
| Theorizing the Prohibition against Homosexuality Part I. Before Homosexuality | |
| Homosexual Relations in Kinship-Structured Societies | |
| Inequality and the State: Homosexual Innovations in Archaic Civilizations | |
| Early Civilizations: Variations on Homosexual Themes | |
| Sexual Asceticism in the Ancient World | |
| Feudalism Part II. The Construction of Modern Homosexuality | |
| Repression and the Emergence of Subcultures | |
| The Rise of Market Economies | |
| The Medicalization of Homosexuality | |
| Bureaucracy and Homosexuality | |
| Gay Liberation Epilogue: Under the Sign of Sociology | |
| References | |
| Index | |
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