homosexuality

Mary Douglas, natural symbols and gay marriage from magistra 133 days old

[ ... ] 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 ...

Sybarite Sarabaites? Monastic pairs in Byzantium from magistra 149 days old

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: ...

Religious functionalism and homophobia from magistra 168 days old

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 ...

Gay monk fantasies from magistra 177 days old

[ ... ] social tolerance and homosexuality, edited by M. Kuefler. Chicago: University of Chicago Press (2006), 215-235, who starts his discussion about ...

Nicky Gumbel, evangelicals and homosexuality from magistra 209 days old

[ ... ] 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 ...

The invention of sodomy as a political weapon from magistra 334 days old

[ ... ] Social Tolerance and Homosexuality (Chicago UP, 2005) asks an important question about changing attitudes to homosexuality after the Gregorian ...

Five year olds and gay marriage from magistra 352 days old

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 ...

Gender and Difference I: Finding or imposing the queer? from magistra 661 days old

[ ... ] 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 ...

The elimination of the medieval gay from magistra 697 days old

[ ... ] author on medieval homosexuality. He got a lot of things wrong in his book: Christianity, social tolerance and homosexuality: gay people in ...

Compulsory hexterosexuality? from magistra 737 days old

[ ... ] to locate ‘obligatory homosexuality’ in prehistory, claims ‘the incest taboo presupposes a prior, less articulate taboo on homosexuality’. But ...