The Geography of Perversion: Male-to-male Sexual Behaviour Outside the West and the Ethnographic Imagination, 1750-1918 (Lesbian & gay studies) - Softcover

Bleys, Rudi C.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0304333786 ISBN 13: 9780304333783

Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd., 1995

Synopsis

This research explores the Western conceptualizations of non-western patterns of same-sex desire and relates these to the evolution of European attitudes to homosexuality. It contributes to the historiography of western constructions of cultural and sexual "otherness" and aims at unravelling in particular how the construction of modern "sodomite", later "homosexual" identity was intertwined with essentialist definitions of so-called "racial" identity.

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About the Author

Rudi C. Bleys is an independent scholar and co-editor of "Vlaanderen en Latijns Ameriks." He is the author of "The Geography of Perversion: Male to Male Sexual Behabior and the Ethnographuc Imagination, 1750-1918."

Edition details

• Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0304333786
• ISBN 13: 9780304333783
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256