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Gay life and culture : a world history / edited by Robert Aldrich

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: [London] : Thames & Hudson, [2006]Description: 384 p. : ill., ports. ; 27 cmISBN:
  • 9780500251300 .
  • 9780500251300 .
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Gay and lesbian history / Robert Aldrich -- Homosexuality in Greece and Rome / Charles Hupperts -- Early modern Europe, 1400-1700 / Helmut Puff -- Male homosexuality in the age of enlightenment and revolution, 1680-1850 / Michael Sibalis -- The Americans: from colonial times to the 20th century -- Public spheres and gay politics since the 2nd world war -- Loving women in the modern world -- Discovering homosexuality: cross-culutural comparison and the history of sexuality -- Homosexuality in the middle East and North Africa -- Desire and same sex intimacies in Asia -- The gay world: 1980 to the present
Summary: From Theocritus' verses to 'Queer as Folk', from the berdaches of North America to the boy-wives of Aboriginal Australia, this book illustrates both the commonality of love and lust, and the various ways in which such desires have been constructed through the ages.
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Includes bibliographical references and index

Gay and lesbian history / Robert Aldrich -- Homosexuality in Greece and Rome / Charles Hupperts -- Early modern Europe, 1400-1700 / Helmut Puff -- Male homosexuality in the age of enlightenment and revolution, 1680-1850 / Michael Sibalis -- The Americans: from colonial times to the 20th century -- Public spheres and gay politics since the 2nd world war -- Loving women in the modern world -- Discovering homosexuality: cross-culutural comparison and the history of sexuality -- Homosexuality in the middle East and North Africa -- Desire and same sex intimacies in Asia -- The gay world: 1980 to the present

From Theocritus' verses to 'Queer as Folk', from the berdaches of North America to the boy-wives of Aboriginal Australia, this book illustrates both the commonality of love and lust, and the various ways in which such desires have been constructed through the ages.

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