The Construction of Homosexuality

by David F. Greenberg

Book Overview

"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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226306283
• ISBN13: 9780226306285
• Release Date: August 1990
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 645 Pages
• Weight: 2.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.7" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

very recommendable book

It is a very interesting and readable book. However, there're some incorrect quotes or sources. E.G. p.215 note 174, He cited one old (19 th century) book about Messalina. But as far as I know, her lesbianismus was not written in any classical texts. I couldn't find her same-sex passion either in Tacitus, Juvenalis, Suetonius or in Dion Cassios. The author himself should have read original Greek & Latin texts. Even I an ignorant Japanese did try to read them to find a written proof. And I hope some erudite persons will kindly teach me the authority of her sapphism.