Sexual Dissidence

by Jonathan Dollimore

Book Overview

Why is homosexuality socially marginal yet symbolically central? Why, in other words, is it so strangely integral to the very societies which obsessively denounce it, and why is it history - history rather than human nature - which has produced this paradoxical position?

These are just some of the questions explored in this wide-ranging study of sexual dissidence which returns to the early modern period in order to focus, question, and develop...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198827067
• ISBN13: 9780198827061
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 452 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 9.0"