The construction of homosexuality

Contensts

Acknowledgments

1 Theorizing the Prohibition against Homosexuality

Part I. Before Homosexuality

2 Homosexual Relations in Kinship-Structured Societies

3 Inequality and the State: Homosexual Innovations in Archaic Civilizations

4 Early Civilizations: Variations on Homosexual Themes

5 Sexual Asceticism in the Ancient World

6 Feudalism

Part II. The Construction of Modern Homosexuality

7 Repression and the Emergence of Subcultures

8 The Rise of Market Economies

9 The Medicalization of Homosexuality

10 Bureaucracy and Homosexuality. 11 Gay Liberation

Epilogue: Under the Sign of Sociology

References

Index