The Construction of Homosexuality

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"At various times homosexuality has been considered the noblest of loves a horrible sin a psychological condition or grounds for torture and execution. David F. Greenbergs careful encyclopedic and important new book argues that homosexuality is only deviant because society has constructed or defined it as deviant. The book takes us over vast terrains of example and detail in the history of homosexuality."Nicholas B. Dirks New York Times Book Review