Toward a Global History of Same-Sex Sexuality

Datos Bibliográficos

ID5772300
AutoresLeila J Rupp (autor de correspondencia)
Año2001
Volumen10
Número2
Páginas287-302
Fecha de publicación2001-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of the History of Sexuality (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1043-4070 • E-ISSN: 1535-3605
EditorialProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1353/sex.2001.0039
OpenAlexW1598228012
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas17
Referencias citadas34

This is the presumptuous title of a paper I delivered for what I believe was the first-ever session on "Gay and Lesbian History/L'histoire de l'homo-sexualité" at the International Congress of Historical Sciences, held in August 2000 in Oslo. As I did there, let me hasten to say here that I do not claim knowledge of same-sex sexuality in every time and every place. But the blossoming of research on a wide range of manifestations of same-sex sexuality calls for an attempt at global thinking. Although my own work is rooted in U.S. and European history, I would like to make use of the work of scholars focusing on different parts of the world to reflect on what patterns might emerge. I take up this task from the perspective of one firmly committed to a social constructionist perspective on sexuality. Thus, I recognize that making transhistorical comparisons can be a risky business. Nevertheless, I think we can learn something by thinking about same-sex sexuality from a global viewpoint

Art · Epistemology · Human sexuality · Lesbian · Perspective (graphical) · Sociology · Strict constructionism · Task (project management) · European history and politics · French Historical and Cultural Studies · Gender Studies · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · Philosophy