Non-Fiction of Gay Interest
Homosexuality A History
by Colin Spencer
Publisher: Fourth Estate
London, UK

Year


 		1995
FIRST EDITION       
Cover / size: Paperback / h 23.3 cm * w 15.7 cm / 448 pp

Dustjacket?   n/a

ISBN: 1857021436

Arbery Ref:   000858

Condition Good

Cover: very slight wear to edges; dent to spine; spine slightly faded; small anomaly to back cover. Page edges: discolouring and markings. Pre-title has erased bookseller's notes. Pages otherwise clean.

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Spencer: Homosexuality: A History






Content:

Chapter Titles
1. Prehistory and early civilisations
2. The conflict: Greeks and Jews
3. Rome, the East and early Christianity
4. The Celts, feudalism and Islam
5. Medieval Europe and new worlds
6. Renaissance England
7. Puritanism and the rise of the work ethic
8. The elite and transvestism
9. Sex and the Enlightenment
10. Empire and industry
11. Colonisation by medicine
12. Wars and persecution
13. Reform, liberation and inequality
14. Analysis and reflections


Background / Biography:

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"The Greeks and Romans thought the Celts were remarkable for their height, strength, masculinity and fair colouring, but they were judging the warrior class they met in battle. This aristocratic warrior society practised extensive male sexual coupling; Aristotle (in Politics) observed that the Celts esteemed love between men. Diodurus Siculus gave us a fuller picture.

The men are much keener on their own sex; they lie around on animal skins and enjoy themselves, with a lover on each side. The extraordinary thing is they haven't the smallest regard for their personal dignity or self-respect; they offer themselves to other men without the least compunction. Furthermore, this isn't looked down upon, or regarded as in any way disgraceful; on the contrary, if one of them is rejected by another to whom he has offered himself, he takes offence."

p94, reference omitted



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