Homosexuality and Civilization
Publisher: Belknap Press
Published: November 15, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 640
ISBN-13: 9780674011977
Subjects: Cultural studies; Gay & Lesbian studies; Sociology; Homophobia; World - General; Gay Studies; Lesbian Studies; History / World; History; Gender identity; Homosexuality
Description: "How have major civilizations of the last two millennia treated people who were attracted to their own sex? In a narrative tour de force, Louis Crompton chronicles the lives and achievements of homosexual men and women alongside a darker history of persecution, as he compares the Christian West with the cultures of ancient Greece and Rome, Arab Spain, imperial China, and pre-Meiji Japan."--Jacket.