The Myth of the Modern Homosexual

Queer History and the Search for Cultural Unity

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ID19909656
AuthorsRictor Norton (corresponding author)
Year2016
Publication date2016-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueThe Myth of the Modern Homosexual (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherBloomsbury Academic (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.5040/9781474286916
OpenAlexW4247532916
ISBN9781474286916
Open LibraryOL48663887M
LanguageEN
Citations received7

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

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Essentialism · Historiography · Identity (music) · Ideology · Kinship · Lesbian · Literature · Mythology · Political science · Politics · Queer · Queer theory · Scholarship · Sociology · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues · Anthropology · Gender Studies · History · Law

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