Myth of the Modern Homosexual : Queer History and the Search for Cultural Unity Hardback
by Rictor Norton
Part of the Gender Studies: Bloomsbury Academic Collections series
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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 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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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:336 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:06/10/2016
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- ISBN:9781474286930
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:336 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:06/10/2016
- Category:
- ISBN:9781474286930