Homophobia : a history / Byrne Fone.

  • Fone, Byrne, 1936-
Date:
2000
  • Books

About this work

Publication/Creation

New York : Metropolitan Books, 2000.

Physical description

xi, 480 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Before homophobia?: "Homosexuality and "homophobia" in antiquity -- Inventing Sodom: Sodom and homosexual behavior in the Old and New Testaments -- A thousand years of Sodomy: defining sodomy, 500-1400 -- Lighting bonfires: sodomy and anxiety in the Renaissance -- Sodomy and the Enlightenment: unmasking and punishing sodomites, 1700-1860 -- Victorian secrets: Uranians, inverts, perverts, and homosexuals, 1850-1910 -- New world homophobia: sodomy and persecution in America, 1500-1900 -- Normal homosexuals: homophobia and resistance in the twentieth century.

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    History of Medicine
    TPO /FON
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ISBN

  • 0805045597