The Geography of Perversion

Author	: Rudi Bleys
Publisher	: NYU Press
Total Pages	: 337
Release	: 1996-07
ISBN-10	: 9780814712658
ISBN-13	: 0814712657
Rating	: 4/5 (58 Downloads)

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Download or read book The Geography of Perversion written by Rudi Bleys and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1996-07 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thorough, cross-cultural history of sexual categories, focusing on such subjects as puritanism, sodomy, and ethnicity in colonial North America; cross-gender behavior and hermaphroditism; and the semiotics of genitalia. The author also demonstrates that representation of cultural "otherness," as found in European thought from the Enlightenment through modern times, is closely related to modern constructions of homosexual identity. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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