The Geography of Perversion: Male-To-Male Sexual Behavior Outside the West and the Ethnographic Imagination, 1750-1918
Recent years have seen enormous attention devoted to the history of sexuality in the Western world. But how has the West conceived of non-western societies been influenced by these other traditions? The Geography of Perversion and Desire is the first historical study to demonstrate convincingly that the representation cultural otherness, as found in European thought from the Enlightenment through modern times, is closely interrelated with modern constructions of homosexual identity. Travel reports and early ethnographic accounts of cross-gender roles in the Americas, Africa, and Asia corroborated the 18th century construction of the sodomite…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8147-1265-8
- EAN: 9780814712658
- Produktnummer: 1635746
- Verlag: New York Univ Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1996
- Seitenangabe: 480 S.
- Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.4 cm x D2.4 cm 594 g
- Gewicht: 594
Über den Autor
Rudi C. Bleys holds a Ph.D. in European intellectual history from the University of Leuven in Belgium.
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