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Byrne FonePublication Details
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Delving into literary sources as diverse as Greek philosophy, the Bible, Elizabethan poetry, and the Victorian novel, as well as historical texts and propaganda from the French Revolution to the Moral Majority, Fone finds that same-sex desire has always been the object of legal, social, and religious persecution. Sifting the evidence of our own times, including Reader’s Digest articles and TV talk-show transcripts, Fone demonstrates that homophobia remains one of the central tenets of law, science, faith, and literature, and defines the very essence of what it means to be male or female. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
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- "Byrne Fone chronicles the evolution of homophobia through the centuries. Delving into literary sources as diverse as Greek philosophy, Elizabethan poetry, the Bible, and the Victorian novel, as well as historical texts and propaganda from the French Revolution to the Moral Majority, Fone finds that same-sex desire has always been the object of legal, social, and religious persecution."– BOOK JACKET
Contents
- Introduction: The Last Acceptable Prejudice
- Pt. 1. Before Homophobia?: "Homosexuality" and "Homophobia" in Antiquity. Ch. 1. Inventing Eros. Ch. 2. Against Nature. Ch. 3. Making Monsters. Ch. 4. The End of Antiquity
- Pt. 2. Inventing Sodom: Sodom and Homosexual Behavior in the Old and New Testaments. Ch. 5. The Sodom Story. Ch. 6. Gospel Sodomy
- Pt. 3. A Thousand Years of Sodomy: Defining Sodomy, 500-1400. Ch. 7. Avenging Flames. Ch. 8. The Plague of Sodomy
- Pt. 4. Lighting Bonfires: Sodomy and Anxiety in the Renaissance. Ch. 9. Reinventing Sodomy. Ch. 10. A Continental Epidemic. Ch. 11. England’s Abominable Vice
- Pt. 5. Sodomy and the Enlightenment: Unmasking and Punishing Sodomites, 1700-1860. Ch. 12. Societies of Sodomites
- Pt. 6. Victorian Secrets: Uranians, Inverts, Perverts, and Homosexuals, 1850-1910. Ch. 13. Inverting Perversion. Ch. 14. Modern Ethics
- Pt. 7. New World Homophobia: Sodomy and Persecution in America, 1500-1900. Ch. 15. Colonizing Sodom. Ch. 16. The Discord Young Men Feel. Ch. 17. In Fear of Fairies
- Pt. 8. Normal Homosexuals: Homophobia and Resistance in the Twentieth Century. Ch. 18. The Riddle of Homosexuality. Ch. 19. Hit Them! Hit Back! Ch. 20. American Masculinity. Ch. 21. A Panic Close to Madness
- Epilogue: The Last Acceptable Prejudice
ISBN
- 0805045597
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