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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... activity.3 That human beings have desired , loved , and had sex with members of their own sex over time is abundantly demonstrated in the visual art and medical , philosophical , and literary texts of all historical periods.4 2 ...
... be no doubt that homosexual activity was an accepted part of the lives of Greek males at an early age and that it could continue without qualm in adulthood.14 If an adult male introduced a handsome boy to sex—and if, in doing so,
... activities and the demeanor of such people were indubitable signs of a different - and contemptible - sex- ual nature . Locating Greek homophobia in antiquity means locating it in Greek writing . It is best to note , however , that the ...
... activity was an accepted part of the lives of Greek males at an early age and that it could continue with- out qualm in adulthood.14 If an adult male introduced a handsome boy to sex - and if , in doing so , he introduced his young ...
... activity is that in itself it is neither good nor bad . " This theme of circumstantial morality is central to his view that the beloved can without dishonor grant favors that is , sex - to the good man , the “ man of noble nature ...
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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 |