Homophobia A History

Name: Homophobia A History
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ISBN: 9780312420307

ISBN-10: 0312420307

ISBN-13: 9780312420307

Edition: 2001 (Revised)

Authors: Byrne Fone

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In this tour de force of historical and literary research, Fone, an acclaimed expert on gay and lesbian history and professor emeritus at the City University of New York, chronicles the evolution of homophobia through the centuries. Delving into literary sources as diverse as Greek philosophy, Elizabethan poetry, the Bible, and the Victorian novel, as well as historical texts and propaganda ranging from the French Revolution to the Moral Majority to the transcripts of current TV talk shows, Fone reveals how and why same-sex desire has long been the object of legal, social, religious, and political persecution.

Book details

List price: $26.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Picador
Publication date: 11/3/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 496
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

Byrne Fone, a pioneer in the teaching of gay and lesbian studies, is the author of three previous books, including A Road to Stonewall, and editor of The Columbia Anthology of Gay Literature. Professor emeritus at the City University of New York, he lives in Hudson, New York.



Acknowledgments


Introduction: The Last Acceptable Prejudice



Homosexuality



Homophobia



History



Before Homophobia? "Homosexuality" and "Homophobia" in Antiquity



Inventing Eros



Imagining Eros



Legitimating Eros



Greek Homosexuality and Homophobia



Against Nature



Imagining Effeminacy



Unnatural Crimes



Indicting Effeminacy



Making Monsters



Imperial Desire



Naming Perverts



Diagnosing Deviance



The End of Antiquity



Affairs of the Heart



The Triumph of Charicles



Inventing Sodom: Sodom and Homosexual Behavior in the Old and New Testaments



The Sodom Story



Fire from Heaven



Sodom and Homosexuality in Other Old Testament Texts



Interpreting Sodom



Sodom and Sexual Deviance



Gospel Sodomy



The Unnameable Sin



Testifying to Perversion



Paul on Punishment



Reinventing Sodom



A Thousand Years of Sodomy: Defining Sodomy, 500-1400



Avenging Flames



Avenging Flames



Rooting Out Depravity in the West



Repenting for Pleasure



Something Shameful



The Plague of Sodomy



Theorizing Sin



Criminalizing Sodomy



Identifying Sodomites



Sodomite and Heretic



The Trial of Arnald of Verniolle



Is It a Sin to Love?



The Plague of Sodomy



The Burning Question



Lighting Bonfires: Sodomy and Anxiety in the Renaissance



Reinventing Sodomy



Sodomy and Friendship



Sodomy and Satire



Sodomy and the Black Death



Sodomy and Religious Factionalism



Sodomy and Treason



A Continental Epidemic



The Italian Panic



Spanish Sodomy



A Portuguese Sodomite



Effeminacy in France



Counting Sodomites in Geneva



England's Abominable Vice



Sodomy and Criminal Law



Redefining Sodomy



Literary Sodomites



Inventing Homophobia



Sodomy and the Enlightenment: Unmasking and Punishing Sodomites, 1700-1860



Societies of Sodomites



Effeminate Weaklings



Persecution in the Dutch Republic



Imagining Sodomites



A Detestable Race



A Cry for Reform



Risking Their Necks



The End of Sodomy?



Victorian Secrets: Uranians, Inverts, Perverts, and Homosexuals, 1850-1910



Inverting Perversion



The Invention of Abnormality



A Flourishing Literature



Fictive Strategies



Modern Ethics



The Social Value of Homosexuality



The Panic Terror That Prevails



Sexual Inversion



Symbolic Sodomite



Outlaws



New World Homophobia: Sodomy and Persecution in America, 1500-1900



Colonizing Sodom



Eliminating Sodom



New English Sodomy



The Discord Young Men Feel



Friendship and Anxiety



Sexual Comrades



Unmanly Passions



In Fear of Fairies



Natural Objects of Disgust



Colonies of Perverts



Policing Perverts



Normal Homosexuals: Homophobia and Resistance in the Twentieth Century



The Riddle of Homosexuality



Oswald's Story



The Intersexes



Introducing Jennie June



Hit Them! Hit Back!



Strike



Counterstrike



Disgusting Performances



Rights and Cults



Inferior Human Beings



American Masculinity



Sinister Decadence



Cataloguing Sex



Gardens of Pansies



Demand Our Rights!



A Panic Close to Madness



Narrow Sensibilities



Good Gay Poets



Drama Queens



Pride and Prejudice


Epilogue: The Last Acceptable Prejudice



Homophobia



Prancing Activists



From Tolerance to Acceptance?


Notes


Index