The Making of the Modern Homosexual

Plummer, Kenneth (ed.)

ISBN 10: 0091431514 / ISBN 13: 9780091431518

Published by Hutchinson, 1981

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paperback, 280 pp. Good condition Upward curve top open edge of book. First title page along top edge neatly stamped the following - 1/M/6 MWA R12.00 so possibly sold in S. Africa?

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Making of the Modern Homosexual
• Publisher: Hutchinson
• Publication Date: 1981
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0091431514
• ISBN 13: 9780091431518
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • gay studies

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Synopsis

Is the "homosexual" a type of person that has been with us-in various guises-throughout history? Is he or she simply a "being" that we are slowly discovering and understanding better? Or is the "homosexual" simply an invention of our century? The authors of this original and important new work take this last view and argue that although "same-sex" sexual experiences may have existed throughout history, the notion of the "homosexual" is a peculiarly modern idea which has profound consequences in the structuring of recent homosexual experiences. The essays in this book take the contemporary construction of the homosexual as their common concern.