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Construction of Homosexuality

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ISBN-10: 0226306283

ISBN-13: 9780226306285

Edition: 1990

Authors: David F. Greenberg

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"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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Book details

List price: $37.00
Copyright year: 1990
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 8/15/1990
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 645
Size: 0.64" wide x 0.93" long x 0.13" tall
Weight: 2.2
Language: English

David Greenberg teaches history at Yale University. Formerly an editor of The New Republic, he writes for Slate, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and other national publications. He lives in Manhattan and in New Haven.

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