Homophobia: A HistoryHenry Holt and Company, 3 nov. 2001 - 480 pagini The first comprehensive history of homophobia-from ancient Athens to the halls of Congress-this bold, original work is certain to become a classic. |
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4 Inventing Homophobia | 224 |
SODOMY AND THE ENLIGHTMENT Unmasking and Punishing Sodomites 17001860 | 227 |
Societies of Sodomites | 229 |
1 Effeminate Weaklings | 231 |
2 Persecution in the Dutch Republic | 236 |
3 Imagining Sodomites | 242 |
4 A Detestable Race | 249 |
5 A Cry for Reform | 254 |
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3 Diagnosing Deviance | 54 |
The End of Antiquity | 60 |
1 Affairs of the Heart | 61 |
2 The Triumph of Charicles | 69 |
INVENTING SODOM Sodom and Homosexual Behavior in the Old and New Testaments | 73 |
The Sodom Story | 75 |
2 Sodom and Homosexuality in Other Old Testament Texts | 81 |
3 Interpreting Sodom | 86 |
4 Sodom and Sexual Deviance | 89 |
Gospel Sodomy | 93 |
2 Testifying to Perversion | 96 |
3 Paul on Punishment | 97 |
4 Reinventing Sodom | 101 |
A THOUSAND YEARS OF SODOMY Defining Sodomy 5001400 | 109 |
Avenging Flames | 111 |
1 Avenging Flames | 114 |
2 Rooting Out Depravity in the West | 118 |
3 Repenting for Pleasure | 123 |
4 Something Shameful | 127 |
The Plague of Sodomy | 132 |
1 Theorizing Sin | 133 |
2 Criminalizing Sodomy | 140 |
3 Identifying Sodomites | 145 |
4 Sodomite and Heretic | 148 |
5 The Trial of Arnald of Verniolle | 155 |
6 Is It a Sin to Love? | 159 |
7 The Plague of Sodomy | 164 |
8 The Burning Question | 174 |
LIGHTING BONFIRES Sodomy and Anxiety in the Renaissance | 177 |
Reinventing Sodomy | 179 |
1 Sodomy and Friendship | 180 |
2 Sodomy and Satire | 183 |
3 Sodomy and the Black Death | 186 |
4 Sodomy and Religious Factionalism | 187 |
5 Sodomy and Treason | 189 |
A Continental Epidemic | 192 |
1 The Italian Panic | 193 |
2 Spanish Sodomy | 200 |
3 A Portuguese Sodomite | 204 |
4 Effeminacy in France | 208 |
5 Counting Sodomites in Geneva | 210 |
Englands Abominable Vice | 215 |
2 Redefining Sodomy | 219 |
3 Literary Sodomites | 220 |
6 Risking Their Necks | 258 |
7 The End of Sodomy? | 265 |
VICTORIAN SECRETS Uranians Inverts Perverts and Homosexuals 18501910 | 269 |
Inverting Perversion | 271 |
1 The Invention of Abnormality | 273 |
2 A Flourishing Literature | 277 |
3 Fictive Strategies | 281 |
Modern Ethics | 288 |
2 The Panic Terror That Prevails | 297 |
3 Sexual Inversion | 302 |
4 Symbolic Sodomite | 306 |
5 Outlaws | 309 |
NEW WORLD HOMOPHOBIA Sodomy and Persecution in America 15001900 | 317 |
Colonizing Sodom | 319 |
2 New English Sodomy | 326 |
The Discord Young Men Feel | 333 |
1 Friendship and Anxiety | 334 |
2 Sexual Comrades | 337 |
3 Unmanly Passions | 341 |
In Fear of Fairies | 345 |
1 Natural Objects of Disgust | 346 |
2 Colonies of Perverts | 347 |
3 Policing Perverts | 350 |
NORMAL HOMOSEXUALS Homophobia and Resistance in the Twentieth Century | 353 |
The Riddle of Homosexuality | 355 |
1 Oswalds Story | 357 |
2 The Intersexes | 360 |
3 Introducing Jennie June | 362 |
Hit Them Hit Back | 372 |
1 Strike | 373 |
2 Counterstrike | 375 |
3 Disgusting Performances | 379 |
4 Rights and Cults | 381 |
5 Inferior Human Beings | 383 |
American Masculinity | 385 |
1 Sinister Decadence | 386 |
2 Cataloguing Sex | 388 |
3 Gardens of Pansies | 390 |
4 Demand Our Rights | 392 |
A Panic Close to Madness | 395 |
1 Narrow Sensibilities | 396 |
2 Good Gay Poets | 401 |
3 Drama Queens | 402 |
4 Pride and Prejudice | 405 |
The Last Acceptable Prejudice | 409 |
1 Homophobia | 411 |
2 Prancing Activists | 416 |
3 From Tolerance to Acceptance? | 419 |
NOTES | 423 |
INDEX | 463 |