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Norton Rictor <1945-> |
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Titolo |
The myth of the modern homosexual : queer history and the search for cultural unity / / Rictor Norton |
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London, England : , : Washington : , , 1997 |
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London, England : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2020 |
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ISBN |
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1-4742-8691-7 |
1-4742-8692-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (338 p.) |
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Collana |
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Bloomsbury academic collections. Gender studies |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Male homosexuality - History |
Gays - History |
Homosexuality - History |
Homosexuality - history |
Philosophy |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-301) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Social constructionism and other myths. The search for cultural unity ; Queer BC (Before Constructionism) ; The myth of the modern homosexual ; It's just a phase we're going through -- The nature of queer history. What is queer history? ; The evidence of things not seen ; Lesbian historiography -- Queer culture. The great queens of history ; Queer (sub)cultures ; Queer folk and culture queens. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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"With careful reasoning supported by wide-ranging scholarship, this study exposes the fallacies of 'social constructionist' theories within lesbian and gay studies and makes a forceful case for the autonomy of queer identity and culture. It presents evidence that queers are part of a centuries-old history, possessing a unified historical and cultural identity. The volume reviews the fundamental historiographical issues about the nature of queer history, arguing that a new generation of queer historians will need to abandon authoritarian dogma founded |
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upon politically-correct ideology rather than historical experience. Norton offers a clear exposition of the evidence for ancient, indigenous and pre-modern queer cultural continuity, revealing how knowledge of that history has been suppressed and censored and sets out the 'queer cultural essentialist' position on the key topics of queer history ? role, identity, bisexuality, orientation, linguistics, social control, homophobia, subcultures, and kinship patterns."-- |
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