The queer periphery: sexual deviancy and the cultural understanding of space.
The association of normative sexuality with the geographical center and sexual deviancy with the geographical periphery represents a pattern of thinking that has stayed with us in different guises throughout history. The article traces this pattern and some of its complex ramifications from the ancient Greeks to the present.
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Department of History of Religions, University of Bergen, P.O. Box 7805, N-5020 Bergen, Norway. dag.endsjo@krr.uib.no
D003466:Cultural Characteristics; D005260:Female; D018645:Greek World; D049674:History, 21st Century; D049690:History, Ancient; D049691:History, Medieval; D006716:Homosexuality / Q000266:history; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010262:Paraphilic Disorders / Q000266:history; D011287:Prejudice; D012071:Religion and Sex; D012931:Social Environment