Bøker av David M. Halperin

Seeks to lift the unofficial ban on the investigation of homosexuality and shame. This title tackles a range of issues - questions of emotion, disreputable sexual histories, dissident gender identities, and embarrassing figures and moments in gay history. It is accompanied by a collection of films, performance, and archival imagery on DVD.

Features fifteen original essays where 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.

A pioneer of LGBTQ studies dares to suggest that gayness is a way of being that gay men must learn from one another to become who they are. The genius of gay culture resides in some of its most despised stereotypes-aestheticism, snobbery, melodrama, glamour, caricatures of women, and obsession with mothers-and in the social meaning of style.

In this work David Halperin revisits and re-examines the argument he set forth in "One hundred years of homosexuality": the idea that both hetero- and homo- sexuality are not biologically determined but, instead, socially constructed.