Myth of the modern homosexual : queer history and the search for cultural unity / Rictor Norton.

"With careful reasoning supported by wide-ranging scholarship, this study exposes the fallacies of 'social constructionist' theories within lesbian and gay studies and makes a forceful case for the autonomy of queer identity and culture. It presents evidence that queers are part of a...

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Main Author: Norton, Rictor (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2016.
Series:Bloomsbury academic collections. Gender studies.
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505 0 |a Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Part One: Social Constructionism and Other Myths; 1. The Search for Cultural Unity; Social constructionism; Essentialism; Gender nonconformity; Identity; 'Homosexualities'; Discourse and shirts; Sexuality; Uses and abuses of theory; 2. Queer BC (Before Constructionism); Identity; Passive roles; Orientation; Exclusive homosexuality; Exclusive lesbianism; The bisexual myth; 3. The Myth of the Modern Homosexual; Social control; The 'homosexual'; The 1869 watershed; The slowness of 'medicalization' 
505 8 |a The myth of internalized homophobiaThe distorting/subverting mirror; 'Intergenerational' and 'egalitarian' models; Capitalism and the family; 4. It's Just a Phrase We're Going Through; Generic queers; The 'sodomite'; The 'active' homosexual; Cultural queer-words; The 'lesbian'; Queer language; Obscure origins; Dyke; Faggot; Gay; Queer; Part Two: The Nature of Queer History; 5. What Is Queer History?; Queer historians; Queer culture versus homophobic discourse; The law; The fallacy of 'anachronism'; 6. The Evidence of Things Not Seen; Trials; Literature; Censorship; 'Obscenity' 
505 8 |a Outright destructionSuppression; Protection of privacy; Self-censorship; Misconstruction; Ethnography; Suppression of research; Secret history; Conclusion; 7. Lesbian Historiography; A separate herstory?; The standard of proof; Evidence; Ancient Amazons and other foremothers; The lesbian and the law; Catharina alias Anastasius; Female husbands and cross-dressing; Anne Lister; 'Romantic friendships'; The butch; Part Three: Queer Culture; 8. The Great Queens of History; Lists of famous homosexuals; Cultural unification; Pairs of lovers; Paired saints; Chinese tradition; Queer icons. 
505 8 |a The lesbian cultural universe9. Queer (Sub)cultures; Queer geography; 'Birth' of the subculture; Early queer subcultures; Queer diaspora; Queer migration; Queer cultural continuity; 10. Queer Folk and Culture Queens; Ethnic unity; Culturally identified queers; Culturally identified dykes; The queer tradition; Anti-culture queens; Kith and kin; Conclusion: reclamation and reconstruction; References; Index. 
520 |a "With careful reasoning supported by wide-ranging scholarship, this study exposes the fallacies of 'social constructionist' theories within lesbian and gay studies and makes a forceful case for the autonomy of queer identity and culture. It presents evidence that queers are part of a centuries-old history, possessing a unified historical and cultural identity. The volume reviews the fundamental historiographical issues about the nature of queer history, arguing that a new generation of queer historians will need to abandon authoritarian dogma founded upon politically-correct ideology rather than historical experience. Norton offers a clear exposition of the evidence for ancient, Indigenous and pre-modern queer cultural continuity, revealing how knowledge of that history has been suppressed and censored and sets out the 'queer cultural essentialist' position on the key topics of queer history? role, identity, bisexuality, orientation, linguistics, social control, homophobia, subcultures, and kinship patterns."--  |c Provided by publisher 
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