![]() By examining the origins and development of negative assessments of homosexuality, exposing the cruelty of homophobic persecutions, and demonstrating alternative (positive) responses to those which until recently dominated Europe and North America, Crompton challenges the notion of homosexuality as ‘unnatural’. With this broad but predominantly western focus, the author embarks on a wide-ranging and detailed investigation which simultaneously constructs a powerful pink polemic. ![]() This narrative on ‘western civilization’ is interrupted by two sojourns eastward, to imperial China and pre-Meiji Japan. The investigations continues into dark-age and medieval Europe, Italy during the Renaissance, Spain, France and England in the 1500-1700s, and finally eighteenth-century Europe. ![]() ![]() Beginning with Judea, Greece and Rome, the so-called founding cultures of western society, it documents evidence for homosexual activity amongst men and (where the evidence permits) women and examines cultural responses to it. Crompton’s Homosexuality and Civilization explores the history of same-sex relationships and attitudes towards them across a variety of periods and places. ![]()
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