The Geography of Perversion Male-To Male Sexual Behaviour Outside the West and the Ethnographic Imagination, 1750-1918
- London Cassell 1996
- 328p
includes index and biblioraphy
1 The Pre-Enlightenment Legacy Sodomy and the shock of the new Constructing the New World`s sexuality The tropicalization of `abominable sin` Puritanism, sodomy and ethnicity Europe`s quest for paradise Sodomy, hermaphrodites and the mapping of mankind 2 The Enlightenment, Natural History and the Sodomite (c. 1750-c. 1815) From `act` to `minority` At the homefront 3 Race, Sex and the Semiotics of Genitalia (c. 1810-c. 1870) Continuity and change The moral rhetoric of prophylaxis The empiricism of analogy Pre-Darwinian evolution theory and sex history 4 `Mapping` Homosexual Vice (c. 1860-c. 1918) Outside Europe: imperial anxieties Inside Europe: the civilizing mission within The parameters of sexual science The new inventory of homosexual deviance Comparative ethnology and the matrices of homosexuality 5 Homosexual Emancipation and the Paradoxes of Universality(c. 1860-c. 1918) Medicalization and emancipation of the `third sex` The poetics and politics of anthropology Armchair anthropology and subcultural politics Mannerfreundschaft, decadence and exile