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Article: Same sex relations in history and culture: an up-to-date synthesis.(Homosexuality, and Civilization)(Book Review)
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- The Journal of Sex Research
- Article date:
- November 1, 2004
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Homosexuality, and Civilization. By Louis Crompton. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003, 623 pages. Cloth, $35.00.
Reviewed by Vern L. Bullough, Ph.D., R.N., SUNY Distinguished Professor Emeritus, 3305 West Sierra Dr., Westlake Village, CA 91362-3542; e-mail: vbullough@adelphia.net.
The publishing of historical studies of homosexuality, particularly in English, has exploded during the past 40 years. When I began writing on homosexuality in the 1960s and early 1970s, there were almost no serious historical studies in English. The best studies, written mostly in German in the early part of the 20th century, remained untranslated and unknown ...