The Missing Myth [[electronic resource] ] : A New Vision of Same-Sex Love

• Autore: Herrada Gilles
• Pubblicazione: Cork, : BookBaby, 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (882 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.76/6
• Soggetto topico: Homosexuality - Genetic aspects; Homosexuality; Gender & Ethnic Studies; Social Sciences; Gay & Lesbian Studies
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction: A Renovated Homosexual Discourse; Perspective and Context; Cultural Paradigm; The Time Dimension: from Individual Development to Species Evolution; Context-Determined versus Context-Aware; The True, the Good, and the Beautiful; PART I The True; 1 The Homosexual Presence; Demographics; An Elusive Variable: Homosexual Identity; Homosexualities; Lesbian Love; Debunking the Homosexual "Conundrum"; Homosexuality Today; 2 The Homosexual Phenomenon; A Two-Component System ; Homosexual Orientation and Homosexual Preference3 The Homosexual Body; Epistemological Depth; Predict and Control; Homosexuality, Viewed from the Outside; Homosexuality, Viewed from the Inside; 4 The Biology of Desire; A Post-"Nature versus Nurture" Homosexual Discourse; Genetic? Biological? ... What?; The Smell of Desire; 5 Up From the Jungle; On Sex and Violence; The Invention of Sex; The Evolutionary Logic of Homosexual Behavior; Pretty Boys; When Less Is More; The Roots of Homophobia; 6 The Fear of the Unknown; The Unknown; The Testosterone Dilemma; The Making of Otherness; Belonging ; KnowingSex and the Miracle of Life; PART II The Good; 7 Immaterial Realities; The Dynamics of the Invisible; The Evolution of Morals; The Logic of Homosexual Rights; The Problem of Homosexuality; 8 The Fall from Grace; The Jews: Difference and Purity; Greek Love; A Discrete Cultural Revolution; The Desacralization of Sex; The Brothels of Rome; Love your Neighbor as Yourself; Inventing the Sodomite; Homosexuality's Destiny; 9 The Great Transformation; The Context of a New Revolution; Modernity and the Art of Measuring; Postmodernity and the Face of the Unknown; Gay Liberation ; For the Love of Comrades: the Emergence of Modern Homosexuality10 The Missing Myth; Myths and Mythos; Mythic Representations of Same-Sex Desire; A Mythic Void; Sodom and Gomorrah; The Fear of Chaos; The Failure of Modernity; 11 A Symbolic Existence; Mythos versus Logos; A Global Mythos; Homosexuality in the Global Mythos; The Missing Myth: Lost and Found; Stereotypes; Rituals; 12 Equal Rights - Different Rites; Predictability, Membership, and Meaning; The Three Pillars of Traditional Marriage; The Cosmic Order; Same-Sex Marriage; Equal Rights, Not Equal Rites; 13 Away from Nature ; The Real Nature vs. Nurture DebateThe Evolutionary Telos; PART III The Beautiful; 14 To Be Free and Free to Be; Free to Be, at Last; Failed Heterosexuals?; Insults; 15 The Unfolding of the Homosexual Self; Homosexual Identity, Moving Target; A Map of Homosexual Development; Homosexual Identity Development, Here and Now; Six Stages of Homosexual Identity Development; The Lesbian Specificity; Reclaiming Our Children; 16 Becoming; Becoming Homosexual; The Mythopoetic Revolution; Philia; References; Notes; About the Author
• Sommario/riassunto: If homosexual behavior is an aberration from the standpoint of reproduction, why is it widespread among humans, primates, and a myriad of other animal species, and why has it been favored by evolution? And if homosexuality is considered a moral problem based on religious beliefs, why were more homosexuals exterminated under the brief reigns of such
• Altri titoli varianti: Missing Myth
• Titolo autorizzato: The Missing Myth
• ISBN: 1-59079-972-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910159427203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II