The Geography of Perversion

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 wa...

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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.

http://www.worldcat.org/title/geography-of-perversion-male-to-male-sexual-behaviour-outside-the-west-and-the-ethnographic-imagination-1750-1918/oclc/32697608
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS v
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS vii
INTRODUCTION 1
HISTORIOGRAPHY AND CONTEXT 3
1. THE PRE-ENLIGHTENMENT LEGACY 17
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http://www.worldcat.org/title/geography-of-perversion-male-to-male-sexual-behaviour-outside-the-west-and-the-ethnographic-imagination-1750-1918/oclc/32697608
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS v
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS vii
INTRODUCTION 1
HISTORIOGRAPHY AND CONTEXT 3
1. THE PRE-ENLIGHTENMENT LEGACY 17
Sodomy and the shock of the new 19
Constructing the New World's sexuality 22
The tropicalization of "abominable sin" 36
Puritanism, sodomy and ethnicity 39
Europe's quest for paradise 40
Sodomy, hermaphrodites and the mapping of mankind 45
2. THE ENLIGHTENMENT, NATURAL HISTORY AND THE SODOMITE (c.1750-c.1815) 63
From "act" to "minority" 64
At the homefront 81 3. RACE, SEX AND THE SEMIOTICS OF GENITALIA (c.1810-c.1870) 110
Continuity and change 111
The moral rhetoric of prophylaxis 126
The empiricism of analogy 128
Pre-Darwinian evolution theory and sex history 134
4. "MAPPING" HOMOSEXUAL VICE (c.1860-c.1918) 145
Outside Europe: imperial anxieties 147
Inside Europe: the civilizing mission within 151
The parameters of sexual science 152
The new inventory of homosexual deviance 160
Comparative ethnology and the matrices of homosexuality 185
5. HOMOSEXUAL EMANCIPATION AND THE PARADOXES OF UNIVERSALITY (c.1860-c.1918) 207
Medicalization and emancipation of the "third sex" 208
The poetics and politics of anthropology 213
Armchair anthropology and subcultural politics 224
"Männerfreudschaft", decadence and exile 250
CONCLUSION 266
BIBLIOGRAPHY 273
Primary sources 273
Secondary literature 298
INDEX 321
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