| Description |
x, 208 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: In defense of historicism -- Forgetting Foucault -- First homosexuality? -- Historicizing the subject of desire -- How to do the history of male homosexuality -- Appendix: Questions of evidence. |
| Summary |
In this long-awaited book, David M. Halperin revisits and refines the argument he put forward in his classic One Hundred Years of Homosexuality: that hetero- and homosexuality are not biologically constitued but are, instead, historically and culturally produced. How to Do the History of Homosexuality expands on this view, updates it, answers its critics, and makes greater allowance for continuities in the history of sexuality. Above all, Halperin offers a vigorous defense of the historicist approach to the construction of sexuality, an approach that sets a premium on the description of other societies in all their irreducible specificity and does not force them to fit our own conceptions of what sexuality is or ought to be. |
| Subject |
Male homosexuality -- History.
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Male homosexuality -- Historiography.
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Male homosexuality -- Greece -- History.
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Male homosexuality. (OCoLC)fst01430687
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Greece. (OCoLC)fst01208380
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Geschichte. (DE-588)4020517-4
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Homosexualität. (DE-588)4025798-8
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Homoseksualiteit.
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Geschiedschrijving.
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Histoire.
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Homosexualité.
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Homosexualité masculine.
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Lesbianisme.
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Homosexuality, Male -- history. (DNLM)D018451Q000266
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Homosexuality, Male -- psychology.
(DNLM)D018451Q000523
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Historiography. (DNLM)D006663
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Greek World -- history. (DNLM)D018645Q000266
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Halperin, David M., 1952- How to do the history of homosexuality. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2002 (OCoLC)1085906365 |
| ISBN |
0226314472 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780226314471 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780226314488 (paperback) |
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0226314480 (paperback) |
| Standard No. |
9780226314471 |
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