One Hundred Years of Homosexuality
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
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"Classicist David M. Halperin writes in One Hundred Years of Homosexuality (1990) that Scruton's textual practice of retaining the masculine pronoun for both the subject and object of desire is the best illustration of philosopher and psychoanalyst Luce Irigaray's concept of hom(m)osexualité, observing "Here we see the paradoxical implications of what Scruton calls 'traditional practice' plainly exposed: by regularly treating the ungendered subject as male and thus excluding women, it creates a unitary, universalizing discourse whose uniquely masculine terms, for all their ostensible involvement in heterosexist paradigms, produce an unintended homoerotic effect — precisely the conjunction that Irigaray's coinage is designed to represent."" --Sholem Stein |
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One Hundred Years of Homosexuality: and other essays on Greek love is a 1990 book about homosexuality in ancient Greece by the classicist David M. Halperin, in which the author supports the social constructionist school of thought associated with the French philosopher Michel Foucault. The work has been praised by several scholars, but criticized by others, some of whom have attributed to Halperin the view that the coining of the word "homosexuality" in the nineteenth century brought homosexuality into existence. The book was often reviewed alongside John J. Winkler's The Constraints of Desire (1990).
Table of contents
pt. 1. One hundred years of homosexuality -- "Homosexuality" : a cultural construct (an exchange with Richard Schneider) -- Two views of Greek love : Harold Patzer and Michel Foucault -- pt. 2. Heroes and their pals -- The democratic body : prostitution and citizenship in classical Athens -- Why is Diotima a woman?
