|
Books > Health, Home & Family > Family & health > Sex & sexuality
|
Buy Now
How to Do the History of Homosexuality (Hardcover)
Loot Price: R2,691
Discovery Miles 26 910
|
|
|
How to Do the History of Homosexuality (Hardcover)
Expected to ship within 12 - 19 working days
|
In this long-awaited book, David M. Halperin revisits and refines
the argument he put forward in his classic" One Hundred Years of
Homosexuality": that hetero- and homosexuality are not biologically
constituted but are, instead, historically and culturally produced.
"How to Do the History of Homosexuality" expands on this view,
updates it, answers its critics, and makes greater allowance for
continuities in the history of sexuality. Above all, Halperin
offers a vigorous defense of the historicist approach to the
construction of sexuality, an approach that sets a premium on the
description of other societies in all their irreducible specificity
and does not force them to fit our own conceptions of what
sexuality is or ought to be.
Dealing both with male homosexuality and with lesbianism, this
study imparts to the history of sexuality a renewed sense of
adventure and daring. It recovers the radical design of Michel
Foucault's epochal work, salvaging Foucault's insights from common
misapprehensions and making them newly available to historians, so
that they can once again provide a powerful impetus for innovation
in the field. Far from having exhausted Foucault's revolutionary
ideas, Halperin maintains that we have yet to come to terms with
their startling implications. Exploring the broader significance of
historicizing desire, Halperin questions the tendency among
scholars to reduce the history of sexuality to a mere history of
sexual classifications instead of a history of human subjectivity
itself. Finally, in a theoretical "tour de force," Halperin offers
an altogether new strategy for approaching the history of
homosexuality--one that can accommodate both ruptures
andcontinuities, both identity and difference in sexual experiences
across time and space.
Impassioned but judicious, controversial but deeply informed, "How
to Do the History of Homosexuality" is a book rich in suggestive
propositions as well as eye-opening details. It will prove to be
essential reading for anyone interested in the history of
sexuality.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
You might also like..
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
