The Construction of Homosexuality

"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

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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The Construction of Homosexuality

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