Homophobia
Subtitle: A History
Publisher: Picador
Published: November 3, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 496
ISBN-13: 9780312420307
Subjects: Social Science; History - General History; Gay/Lesbian Nonfiction; General; Social Science / Gay Studies; Gay Studies; History; Homophobia; Homosexuality; Phobias
First sentence: Nearly every age reinvents Greece in its own image.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the last acceptable prejudice
pagenum: 3; label: Part 1
title: Before Homophobia? : "homosexuality" and "homophobia" in antiquity; label: 1
title: Inventing Eros
pagenum: 17; label: 2
title: Against Nature
pagenum: 29; label: 3
title: Making Monsters
pagenum: 44; label: 4
title: The End of Antiquity
pagenum: 60; label: Part 2
title: Inventing Sodom : Sodom and homosexual behavior in the Old and New Testaments; label: 5
title: The Sodom Story
pagenum: 75; label: 6
title: Gospel Sodomy
pagenum: 93; label: Part 3
title: A Thousand Years of Sodomy : defining sodomy, 500-1400; label: 7
title: Avenging Flames
pagenum: 111; label: 8
title: The Plagues of Sodomy
pagenum: 132; label: Part 4
title: Lighting Bonfires : sodomy and anxiety in the renaissance; label: 9
title: Reinventing Sodomy
pagenum: 179; label: 10
title: A Continental Epidemic
pagenum: 192; label: 11
title: England's Abominable Vice
pagenum: 215; label: Part 5
title: Sodomy and the Enlightenment : unmasking and punishing sodomites, 1700-1860; label: 12
title: Societies of Sodomites
pagenum: 229; label: Part 6
title: Victorian Secrets : Uranians, inverts, perverts, and homosexuals, 1850-1910; label: 13
title: Inverting Perversion
pagenum: 271; label: 14
title: Modern Ethics
pagenum: 288; label: Part 7
title: New World Homophobia : sodomy and persecution in America, 1500-1900; label: 15
title: Colonizing Sodom
pagenum: 319; label: 16
title: The Discord Young Men Feel
pagenum: 333; label: 17
title: In Fear of Fairies
pagenum: 345; label: Part 8
title: Normal Homosexuals : homophobia and resistance in the twentieth century; label: 18
title: The Riddle of Homosexuality
pagenum: 355; label: 19
title: Hit Them! Hit Back!
pagenum: 372; label: 20
title: American Masculinity
pagenum: 385; label: 21
title: A Panic Close to Madness
pagenum: 395; title: Epilogue : the last acceptable prejudice
pagenum: 409