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Tables of Contents for Homophobia
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgments
xiii
Introduction: The Last Acceptable Prejudice
3
1
Homosexuality
4
1
Homophobia
5
2
History
7
10
PART ONE: BEFORE HOMOPHOBIA?
``Homosexuality'' and ``Homophobia'' in Antiquity
Inventing Eros
17
12
Imagining Eros
18
3
Legitimating Eros
21
4
Greek Homosexuality and Homophobia
25
4
Against Nature
29
15
Imagining Effeminacy
30
4
Unnatural Crimes
34
4
Indicting Effeminacy
38
6
Making Monsters
44
16
Imperial Desire
45
4
Naming Perverts
49
5
Diagnosing Deviance
54
6
The End of Antiquity
60
15
Affairs of the Heart
61
8
The Triumph of Charicles
69
6
PART TWO: INVENTING SODOM
Sodom and Homosexual Behavior in the Old and New Testaments
The Sodom Story
75
18
Fire from Heaven
75
6
Sodom and Homosexuality in Other Old Testament Texts
81
5
Interpreting Sodom
86
3
Sodom and Sexual Deviance
89
4
Gospel Sodomy
93
18
The Unnameable Sin
93
3
Testifying to Perversion
96
1
Paul on Punishment
97
4
Reinventing Sodom
101
10
PART THREE: A THOUSAND YEARS OF SODOMY
Defining Sodomy, 500-1400
Avenging Flames
111
21
Avenging Flames
114
4
Rooting Out Depravity in the West
118
5
Repenting for Pleasure
123
4
Something Shameful
127
5
The Plague of Sodomy
132
47
Theorizing Sin
133
7
Criminalizing Sodomy
140
5
Identifying Sodomites
145
3
Sodomite and Heretic
148
7
The Trial of Arnald of Verniolle
155
4
Is It a Sin to Love?
159
5
The Plague of Sodomy
164
10
The Burning Question
174
5
PART FOUR: LIGHTING BONFIRES
Sodomy and Anxiety in the Renaissance
Reinventing Sodomy
179
13
Sodomy and Friendship
180
3
Sodomy and Satire
183
3
Sodomy and the Black Death
186
1
Sodomy and Religious Factionalism
187
2
Sodomy and Treason
189
3
A Continental Epidemic
192
23
The Italian Panic
193
7
Spanish Sodomy
200
4
A Portuguese Sodomite
204
4
Effeminacy in France
208
2
Counting Sodomites in Geneva
210
5
England's Abominable Vice
215
14
Sodomy and Criminal Law
215
4
Redefining Sodomy
219
1
Literary Sodomites
220
4
Inventing Homophobia
224
5
PART FIVE: SODOMY AND THE ENLIGHTENMENT
Unmasking and Punishing Sodomites, 1700-1860
Societies of Sodomites
229
42
Effeminate Weaklings
231
5
Persecution in the Dutch Republic
236
6
Imagining Sodomites
242
7
A Detestable Race
249
5
A Cry for Reform
254
4
Risking Their Necks
258
7
The End of Sodomy?
265
6
PART SIX: VICTORIAN SECRETS
Uranians, Inverts, Perverts, and Homosexuals, 1850-1910
Inverting Perversion
271
17
The Invention of Abnormality
273
4
A Flourishing Literature
277
4
Fictive Strategies
281
7
Modern Ethics
288
31
The Social Value of Homosexuality
288
9
The Panic Terror That Prevails
297
5
Sexual Inversion
302
4
Symbolic Sodomite
306
3
Outlaws
309
10
PART SEVEN: NEW WORLD HOMOPHOBIA
Sodomy and Persecution in America, 1500-1900
Colonizing Sodom
319
14
Eliminating Sodom
319
7
New English Sodomy
326
7
The Discord Young Men Feel
333
12
Friendship and Anxiety
334
3
Sexual Comrades
337
4
Unmanly Passions
341
4
In Fear of Fairies
345
10
Natural Objects of Disgust
346
1
Colonies of Perverts
347
3
Policing Perverts
350
5
PART EIGHT: NORMAL HOMOSEXUALS
Homophobia and Resistance in the Twentieth Century
The Riddle of Homosexuality
355
17
Oswald's Story
357
3
The Intersexes
360
2
Introducing Jennie June
362
10
Hit Them! Hit Back!
372
13
Strike
373
2
Counterstrike
375
4
Disgusting Performances
379
2
Rights and Cults
381
2
Inferior Human Beings
383
2
American Masculinity
385
10
Sinister Decadence
386
2
Cataloguing Sex
388
2
Gardens of Pansies
390
2
Demand Our Rights!
392
3
A Panic Close to Madness
395
14
Narrow Sensibilities
396
5
Good Gay Poets
401
1
Drama Queens
402
3
Pride and Prejudice
405
4
Epilogue: The Last Acceptable Prejudice
409
14
Homophobia
410
6
Prancing Activists
416
3
From Tolerance to Acceptance?
419
4
Notes
423
40
Index
463