Islamic Homosexualities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Islamic Homosexualities write by Stephen O. Murray. This book was released on 1997-02. Islamic Homosexualities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first anthropological collection that reveals patterns of male and female homosexuality in the Muslim World The dramatic impact of Islamic fundamentalism in recent years has skewed our image of Islamic history and culture. Stereotypes depict Islamic societies as economically backward, hyper-patriarchal, and fanatically religious. But in fact, the Islamic world encompasses a great diversity of cultures and a great deal of variation within those cultures in terms of gender roles and sexuality. The first collection on this topic from a historical and anthropological perspective, Homosexuality in the Muslim World reveals that patterns of male and female homosexuality have existed and often flourished within the Islamic world. Indeed, same-sex relations have, until quite recently, been much more tolerated under Islam than in the Christian West. Based on the latest theoretical perspectives in gender studies, feminism, and gay studies, Homosexuality in the Muslim World includes cultural and historical analyses of the entire Islamic world, not just the so-called Middle East. Essays show both age-stratified patterns of homosexuality, as revealed in the erotic and romantic poetry of medieval poets, and gender-based patterns, in which both men and women might, to varying degrees, choose to live as members of the opposite sex. The contributors draw on historical documents, literary texts, ethnographic observation and direct observation by both Muslim and non-Muslim authors to show the considerable diversity of Islamic societies and the existence of tolerated gender and sexual variances.
Science and Homosexualities
Science and Homosexualities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Science and Homosexualities write by Vernon A. Rosario, M.D.. This book was released on 2013-01-11. Science and Homosexualities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Science and Homosexualities is the first anthology by historians of science to examine European and American scientific research on sexual orientation since the coining of the word "homosexual" almost 150 years ago. This collection is particularly timely given the enormous scientific and popular interest in biological studies of homosexuality, and the importance given such studies in current legal, legislative and cultural debates concerning gay civil rights. However, scientific and popular literature discussing the biology of sexual orientation have been short-sighted in representing it as objective, new scientific work. This volume demonstrates that the quest for the biological "cause" of homosexuality and other sexualities is as old as the term itself. These essays explore the active role experimental subjects played in shaping scientific theories of homosexuality and cultural perceptions of sexuality and sexual identity. Finally this anthology studies the way in which this doctor-patient interaction shaped not only scientific theories of homosexuality, but also cultural perceptions and self-identities as well. Contributors include: Garland E. Allen, Erin G. Carlston, Julian Carter, Alice D. Dreger, Anne Fausto-Sterling, Margaret Gibson, Stephanie Kenen, Hubert Kennedy, Harry Oosterhuis, James Steakley, Richard Pillard, Jennifer Terry
Homosexualities
Homosexualities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Homosexualities write by Alan P. Bell. This book was released on 1978. Homosexualities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Latin American Male Homosexualities
Latin American Male Homosexualities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Latin American Male Homosexualities write by Stephen O. Murray. This book was released on 1995. Latin American Male Homosexualities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Offers historical and cultural analysis of indigenous conceptions of male homosexuality in South America.
Homosexualities
Homosexualities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Homosexualities write by Stephen O. Murray. This book was released on 2002-06. Homosexualities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Breathtaking in its historical and geographical scope, this book provides a sweeping examination of the construction of male and female homosexualities, stressing both the variability of the forms same-sex desire can take and the key recurring patterns it has formed throughout history. "[An] indispensable resource on same-sex sexual relationships and their social contexts. . . . Essential reading." —Choice "[P]romises to deliver a lot, and even more extraordinarily succeeds in its lofty aims. . . . [O]riginal and refreshing. . . . [A] sensational book, part of what I see emerging as a new commonsense revolution within academe." —Kevin White, International Gay and Lesbian Review
