[ ... ] might involve discussing homosexuality: there's almost no work by medievalists discussing sexuality in any form before the 1970s. In contrast, it's ... more
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Mary Douglas, natural symbols and gay marriage
@ 2009-06-29 – 09:38:08
[ ... ] or gender roles, or homosexuality or ideas of human rights) is still not widely accepted, even though it's a commonplace for many academics in ... more -
Sybarite Sarabaites? Monastic pairs in Byzantium
@ 2009-06-13 – 10:22:28
Jon Jarrett had been doing most of this term's blogging on IHR earlier medieval seminars, but we felt that Claudia Rapp on 'Ritual Brotherhood in Byzantium: … more -
Religious functionalism and homophobia
@ 2009-05-24 – 22:18:52
A while ago, in a discussion over on A Corner of Tenth Century Europe on the anthropologist Mary Douglas, I mentioned that some of the ideas in her more … more -
Gay monk fantasies
@ 2009-05-16 – 15:31:01
[ ... ] social tolerance and homosexuality, edited by M. Kuefler. Chicago: University of Chicago Press (2006), 215-235, who starts his discussion about ... more -
Nicky Gumbel, evangelicals and homosexuality
@ 2009-04-13 – 23:06:07
[ ... ] includes a chapter on homosexuality. Although the book’s brief and doesn’t go into theological depth on any of the issues covered, it strikes me ... more -
History Matters 2: Change and continuity in feminist history
@ 2009-03-21 – 20:14:31
One of Judith Bennett’s main arguments in History Matters: Patriarchy and the Challenge of Feminism (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006) is that … more -
The invention of sodomy as a political weapon
@ 2008-12-09 – 21:06:18
[ ... ] Social Tolerance and Homosexuality (Chicago UP, 2005) asks an important question about changing attitudes to homosexuality after the Gregorian ... more -
Five year olds and gay marriage
@ 2008-11-22 – 08:40:04
I’m not sure at what age I would have told L about gay marriage, but I had not planned to when she was only five. A month or so ago, however, the decision … more -
Gender and Difference I: Finding or imposing the queer?
@ 2008-01-17 – 21:41:57
[ ... ] can be seen as ‘before homosexuality’, a time when there was much less awareness of gay people and very little in the way of a gay subculture ... more
