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How to Do the History of Homosexuality
David M. Halperin
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Paperback. Num Pages: 216 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 134 x 13. Weight in Grams: 312.
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 constituted 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 ... Read more
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 constituted 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226314488
SKU
V9780226314488
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