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Halperin's subject is the erotics of male culture in ancient
Greece. Arguing that the modern concept of "homosexuality" is an
inadequate tool for the interpretation of these features of sexual
life in antiquity, Halperin offers an alternative account that
accords greater prominence to the indigenous terms in which sexual
experiences were constituted in the ancient Mediterranean world.
Wittily and provocatively written, Halperin's meticulously drawn
windows onto ancient sexuality give us a new meaning to the concept
of "Greek love."
A bold reconception of ancient Greek drama by one of the most
brilliant and original classical scholars of his generation When
John Winkler died in 1990, he left an unpublished manuscript
containing a highly original interpretation of the development and
meaning of ancient Greek drama. Rehearsals of Manhood makes this
groundbreaking work available for the first time, presenting an
entirely novel picture of Greek tragedy and a vivid portrait of the
cultural poetics of Athenian manhood. Ancient Athens was a military
conclave as well as an urban capital, and male citizens were
expected to embody the ideal of the Athenian citizen-soldier.
Winkler understands Attic drama as a secular manhood ritual, a
collaborative aesthetic and civic enterprise focused on the
initiation of boys into manhood and the training, testing, and
representation of young male warriors. Past efforts to discover the
origins and development of Greek tragedy have largely treated drama
as a literary genre, isolating it from other Athenian social
practices. Winkler returns Greek tragedy to its social context,
showing how it was one among many forms of display and performance
cultivated by elite males in ancient Greece. The final work of a
celebrated classical scholar, Rehearsals of Manhood highlights the
civic function of the dramatic festivals at classical Athens as
occasions for the examination and representation of boys on the
verge of manhood, and offers a fresh explanation of how dramatic
performance fit into the social life and gender politics of the
Athenian state.
Act Up-Paris became one of the most notable protest groups in
France in the mid-1990s. Founded in 1989, and following the New
York model, it became a confrontational voice representing the
interests of those affected by HIV through openly political
activism. Action=Vie, the English-language translation of
Christophe Broqua’s study of the grassroots activist branch,
explains the reasons for the group’s success and sheds light on
Act Up's defining features—such as its unique articulation
between AIDS and gay activism. Featuring numerous accounts by
witnesses and participants, Broqua traces the history of Act
Up-Paris and shows how thousands of gay men and women confronted
the AIDS epidemic by mobilizing with public actions. Act Up-Paris
helped shape the social definition not only of HIV-positive persons
but also of sexual minorities. Broqua analyzes the changes brought
about by the group, from the emergence of new treatments for HIV
infection to normalizing homosexuality and a controversy involving
HIV-positive writers’ remarks about unprotected sex. This rousing
history ends in the mid-2000s before marriage equality and
antiretroviral treatments caused Act Up-Paris to decline.
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.
Examining love, sex and gender in the ancient Greek world, David Halperin documents the existence in ancient Greece of a radically unfamiliar set of attitudes and behaviours, institutions and social pratices.
The past fifty years are conventionally understood to have
witnessed an uninterrupted expansion of sexual rights and liberties
in the United States. This state-of-the-art collection tells a
different story: while progress has been made in marriage equality,
reproductive rights, access to birth control, and other areas,
government and civil society are waging a war on stigmatized sex by
means of law, surveillance, and social control. The contributors
document the history and operation of sex offender registries
and the criminalization of HIV, as well as highly punitive
measures against sex work that do more to harm women than to combat
human trafficking. They reveal that sex crimes are punished more
harshly than other crimes, while new legal and administrative
regulations drastically restrict who is permitted to have sex. By
examining how the ever-intensifying war on sex affects both
privileged and marginalized communities, the essays collected here
show why sexual liberation is indispensable to social justice and
human rights. Contributors. Alexis Agathocleous, Elizabeth
Bernstein, J. Wallace Borchert, Mary Anne Case, Owen
Daniel-McCarter, Scott De Orio, David M. Halperin, Amber
Hollibaugh, Trevor Hoppe, Hans Tao-Ming Huang, Regina Kunzel, Roger
N. Lancaster, Judith Levine, Laura Mansnerus, Erica R. Meiners, R.
Noll, Melissa Petro, Carol Queen, Penelope Saunders, Sean Strub,
Maurice Tomlinson, Gregory Tomso
The past fifty years are conventionally understood to have
witnessed an uninterrupted expansion of sexual rights and liberties
in the United States. This state-of-the-art collection tells a
different story: while progress has been made in marriage equality,
reproductive rights, access to birth control, and other areas,
government and civil society are waging a war on stigmatized sex by
means of law, surveillance, and social control. The contributors
document the history and operation of sex offender registries and
the criminalization of HIV, as well as highly punitive measures
against sex work that do more to harm women than to combat human
trafficking. They reveal that sex crimes are punished more harshly
than other crimes, while new legal and administrative regulations
drastically restrict who is permitted to have sex. By examining how
the ever-intensifying war on sex affects both privileged and
marginalized communities, the essays collected here show why sexual
liberation is indispensable to social justice and human rights.
Contributors. Alexis Agathocleous, Elizabeth Bernstein, J. Wallace
Borchert, Mary Anne Case, Owen Daniel-McCarter, Scott De Orio,
David M. Halperin, Amber Hollibaugh, Trevor Hoppe, Hans Tao-Ming
Huang, Regina Kunzel, Roger N. Lancaster, Judith Levine, Laura
Mansnerus, Erica R. Meiners, R. Noll, Melissa Petro, Carol Queen,
Penelope Saunders, Sean Strub, Maurice Tomlinson, Gregory Tomso
No one raises an eyebrow if you suggest that a guy who arranges his
furniture just so, rolls his eyes in exaggerated disbelief, likes
techno music or show tunes, and knows all of Bette Davis's best
lines by heart might, just possibly, be gay. But if you assert that
male homosexuality is a cultural practice, expressive of a unique
subjectivity and a distinctive relation to mainstream society,
people will immediately protest. Such an idea, they will say, is
just a stereotype-ridiculously simplistic, politically
irresponsible, and morally suspect. The world acknowledges gay male
culture as a fact but denies it as a truth. David Halperin, a
pioneer of LGBTQ studies, dares to suggest that gayness is a
specific way of being that gay men must learn from one another in
order to become who they are. Inspired by the notorious
undergraduate course of the same title that Halperin taught at the
University of Michigan, provoking cries of outrage from both the
right-wing media and the gay press, How To Be Gay traces gay men's
cultural difference to the social meaning of style. Far from being
deterred by stereotypes, Halperin concludes that the genius of gay
culture resides in some of its most despised features: its
aestheticism, snobbery, melodrama, adoration of glamour,
caricatures of women, and obsession with mothers. The insights,
impertinence, and unfazed critical intelligence displayed by gay
culture, Halperin argues, have much to offer the heterosexual
mainstream.
A dream in which a man has sex with his mother may promise him
political or commercial success--according to dream interpreters of
late antiquity, who, unlike modern Western analysts, would not
necessarily have drawn conclusions from the dream about the
dreamer's sexual psychology. Evidence of such shifts in perspective
is leading scholars to reconsider in a variety of creative ways the
history of sexuality. In these fifteen original essays, eminent
cultural historians and classicists not only discuss sex, but
demonstrate how norms, practices, and even the very definitions of
what counts as sexual activity have varied significantly over time.
Ancient Greece offers abundant evidence for a radically different
set of sexual standards and behaviors from ours. Sex in ancient
Hellenic culture assumed a variety of social and political
meanings, whereas the modern development of a sex-centered model of
personality now leads us to view sex as the key to understanding
the individual. Drawing on both the Anglo-American tradition of
cultural anthropology and the French tradition of les sciences
humaines, these essays explore the iconography, politics, ethics,
poetry, and medical practices that made sex in ancient Greece not a
paradise of liberation but an exotic locale hardly recognizable to
visitors from the modern world. In addition to the editors, the
contributors to this volume are Peter Brown, Anne Carson, Franoise
Frontisi-Ducroux, Maud W. Gleason, Ann Ellis Hanson, Franois
Lissarrague, Nicole Loraux, Maurice Olender, S.R.F. Price, James
Redfield, Giulia Sissa, and Jean-Pierre Vernant.
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.
Ever since the 1969 Stonewall Riots, "gay pride" has been the
rallying cry of the gay rights movement and the political force
behind the emergence of the field of lesbian and gay studies. But
has something been lost, forgotten, or buried beneath the drive to
transform homosexuality from a perversion to a proud social
identity? Have the political requirements of gay pride repressed
discussion of the more uncomfortable or undignified aspects of
homosexuality?
"Gay Shame" seeks to lift this unofficial ban on the investigation
of homosexuality and shame by presenting critical work from the
most vibrant frontier in contemporary queer studies. An esteemed
list of contributors tackles a range of issues--questions of
emotion, disreputable sexual histories, dissident gender
identities, and embarrassing figures and moments in gay history--as
they explore the possibility of reclaiming shame as a new, even
productive, way to examine lesbian and gay culture. Accompanied by
a DVD collection of films, performances, and archival imagery, "Gay
Shame" constitutes nothing less than a major redefinition and
revitalization of the field.
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