Artikel
Theoretical issues : prostitution and the question of sexual identity in Medieval Europe
Verfasst von:
Karras, Ruth Mazo
in:
Journal of women's history
Bloomington:
1999
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8159 - 177 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Ariadne | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Karras, Ruth Mazo |
| In: | Journal of women's history |
| Jahr: | 1999 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| What has by now become the master narrative of the history of sexuality holds that not only homosexuality but the whole concept of sexuality is a creation of nineteenth-century bourgeois society. This article argues that sexual identities, constructed through what Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick calls "minoritizing discourses", can be found much earlier, in premodern Western societies. In the European Middle Ages, for example, although there is nothing congruent to a modern homosexual identity, prostituion was a sexual identity in any relevant sense of the word. this case raises the question of whether the interplay between act and identity might not be more comples than many interpreters of Michel Foucault would make it, and wether the fact that sexuality is socially constructed means that it was constructed only in the nineteenth century | |
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