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Title: Homosexualities (Worlds of Desire: The Chicago Series on Sexuality, Gender, and Culture) by Stephen O. Murray ISBN: 0-226-55195-4 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Many details take us to three main ideas
Comment: The conclusion of this book synthesizes what the hundreds of details and citations have been about. Murray sees homosexuality around the world throughout recorded history asa being age-stratified, gender stratified and egalitarian. In addition, he wants to demonstrate that the social construction of these activities did not eliminate the desire of the pleasure of them, asa some researchers try to maintain.
The first two types of homosexualities predominate history. Some of these stratifications become sacralized in the society's religious foundations. The egalitarian type is more pertinent to the 20th century.
What Murray accomplishes in this book is a description of a wide variety of meaning in homosexual activity. There are different constructions throughout history and even within a particular society on the meaning, purpose and acceptance of certain acts.
This is a well-researched book. For the creative writer there is a mine of information from which to use the imagination. What is so important to understand is that 20th and 21st century criticism often assumes the terminologies more recently developed. Murray and others successfully demonstrate that one has to be more discrete in interpreting literature and art from ancient cultures.
What is fascinating is that throughout the world the same kind of age stratified or gender stratified acitivties have similar meanings. Each culture has particular meanings or levels of acceptance. But somehow humans have found meaning in what today many would call perversions or sickness. Who knows best?
Rating: 5
Summary: very interesting book
Comment: This is a very recommendable and readable book, although it contains not so few mistakes, especially orthography/misspellings.
But, it sounds a little bit strange for us Japaneses the title "Homosexualities", since we didn't have such an odd term which meant both male/male love and female/female love,---- we had a different word which meant male/male love "nanshoku", and did male/female love "nyoshoku", and sapphic love "toichi-haichi"respectively. Of course we don't have religious or superstitional prejudice against both same-sex eroticism and different-sex one at all.
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Title: Homosexuality & Civilization by Louis Crompton ISBN: 067401197X Publisher: Belknap Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Dr. Seuss: American Icon by Philip Nel ISBN: 0826414346 Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group Pub. Date: 01 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: Civil Wars: A Battle for Gay Marriage by David Moats ISBN: 015101017X Publisher: Harcourt Pub. Date: 02 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: The Spoken Word Revolution: Slam, Hip Hop & the Poetry of a New Generation by Mark Eleveld, Marc Kelly Smith, Billy Collins ISBN: 1402200374 Publisher: Sourcebooks Mediafusion Pub. Date: 01 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Age of Shakespeare (Modern Library Chronicles) by FRANK KERMODE ISBN: 0679642447 Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 03 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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