The invention of heterosexuality / Jonathan Ned Katz ; foreword by Gore Vidal ; afterword by Lisa Du...
The invention of heterosexuality / Jonathan Ned Katz ; foreword by Gore Vidal ; afterword by Lisa Du...
The invention of heterosexuality / Jonathan Ned Katz ; foreword by Gore Vidal ; afterword by Lisa Duggan.
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New York : Dutton, c1995.
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N306.764/1
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English
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Physical content
xi, 291 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents
Foreword / Gore Vidal -- 1. The Genealogy of a Sex Concept: From Homosexual History to Heterosexual History -- 2. The Debut of the Heterosexual: Richard von Krafft-Ebing and the Mind Doctors -- 3. Before Heterosexuality: Looking Backward -- 4. Making the Heterosexual Mystique: Sigmund Freud's Semina...
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New York : Dutton, c1995.
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New York (State)
Date Published
c1995.
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Summary
This boldly original work reexamines our society's basic heterosexual/homosexual distinction - focusing on the evolution of the term heterosexual, which, as this study demonstrates, only entered our language a little more than a hundred years ago, ushering in a new way of dividing up and judging sexuality and people.
Exploring the startling history of the heterosexual concept, Jonathan Ned Katz reveals that as late as the 1920s, heterosexuality was still defined in a major American dictionary as "morbid sexual passion for one of the opposite sex." It was only through a slow process that heterosexuality became this society's dominant norm. Analyzing the work of...
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The invention of heterosexuality / Jonathan Ned Katz ; foreword by Gore Vidal ; afterword by Lisa Duggan.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-281) and index.
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c1995.
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N306.764/1
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74VKRX0rP04b
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ISBN
0452275423 (pbk. ; Plume)
9780525938453 (acid-free paper)
0525938451 (acid-free paper)
9780452275423 (pbk.)
0452275423 (pbk.)
9780452275423 (pbk. ; Plume)
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306.764
MMS ID
991023161689702626
