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Condition: Very Good Cover slightly marked from shelf-wear; remains of price sticker on back. Page edges slightly soiled and very slightly curved at corners. Pages clean and binding tight. Book apparently unread. Content: Contributors: Evelyn Blackwood, Barry D Adam, Serena Nanda, J Patrick Gray, Andrea Sankar, Denyse Lockard, Judith Gay, Clark L Taylor, Peter Fry, Richard Parker, Charles Callender & Lee M KOchems, David F Greenberg, Walter L Williams, Harriet Whitehead (reviewer), Ana Villavicencio-Stoller (abstracts), John P DeCecco (preface), Joseph M Carrier (foreword) Background / Biography: Reviews: The primary aim of [this work], apart from the detailed information on each society it gives, is to reinforce the point that the very idea of 'gay' or 'lesbian' as a separate identity stems from Western society and is not a universal. Indeed, other cultures would have difficulty understanding our concept or, if they understood it, might reject it while approving of behaviour among themselves that we might call 'gay/lesbian'. Academics will almost certainly find the book useful; whether or not they agreew tih all the findings is irrelevant here. What I find most interesting is that The Many Faces confirms that no other society (many of which have already been or are about to be modernised to extinction) has sanctioned the bondings of two individuals of the same sex of equal status and age and given it the same standing as their equivalent of marriage. Where sexual or emotional bonds have occurred between two men or two women, there has always been a sanctioning aspect, the elder warrior teaching the younger, as in ancient Greece and mediaeval Japan, the "mummy" instructing the "baby" as in modern Lesotho, or the spiritual power of the North American berdache. Women may have been loving women and men men on their own independent terms throughout history, but we are the first to claim that love as a right and not as a concession. Such books as this give us strength but also shed light on our weaknesses. Martin Foreman, Gay's The Word Newsletter, September 1986 Clicking on advertiser links on this site may allow these companies to gather and use information about your visit to this and other websites to provide you with advertisements about goods and services presumed to be of interest to you. |
Quote from this book "The traditional preoccupation with homosexuality as a separate and unusual entity hindered investigation into the structural forms which make homosexuality possible and likely. The dominant theoretical legacy in sexuality is a biological model which equates heterosexuality with reproduction and subsumes reproduction within the scope of hin and family. The naturalistic and unproblematic core of this analytic paradigm pushes other forms of sexuality into residual categories of the deviant and pathological. Yet the very intransigence of human sexuality in the face of the social coding processes which would confine it to heterosexaulity and the family offers an unrealized potential for reflecting up on sexuality itself. The social geography of homosexuality should reveal clues to the problem of why sexual desire arises at certain structural points and how it is ordered and made meaningful." opening paragraph, "Age, Structure and Sexuality: Reflections on the Anthropological Evidence on Homosexual Relations" by Barry D Adam PhD Secondhand booksellers |
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