Scrutinizing Historiography: From Pederasty to Sodomy to Homosexuality to LGBT/Queer Sexualities

Fernando Cascais

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Scrutinizing Historiography: From Pederasty to Sodomy to Homosexuality to LGBT/Queer Sexualities

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Page Range:: 15–22

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9781848880795_003

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The theorizing of queer sexualities from the standpoint of contemporary Western sexual realities, identities and forms of experience has produced strongly biased analytical models, thus having seriously jeopardized the historiography of queer sexualities, in that they have obscured the role of historical forces in shaping both pre-modern and modern queer sexualities. Those theoretical models not only tend to relegate to pre-modernity the subjects that do not conform to established definitions of sexual modernity, disqualifying them as archaic or residual, but they also distort, if not outright dismiss, the evolving of past forms of sexual experience into modern ones, based on the assumption that the latter simply erased and replaced the former. Drawing on the works of Michel Foucault, David Halperin, and queer theorists Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick and Judith Butler, the present chapter basically sustains the opposite claim. This chapter’s contention is that, in Latin countries for sure, and arguably in the Western world at large, the known historical forms of sexual experience, and correlative sexual categories – pederasty, sodomy, homosexuality – far from being mere defunct modes of eroticism, have lingered as structural Gestalts underlying contemporary LGBT/queer identities. Instead of having been simply replaced by the latter, they still play a considerable role in determining either adherence and/or resistance to the construction of contemporary queer sexualities. Pederasty, sodomy, homosexuality, both as relevant and meaningful categories of inquiry and as forms of sexual experience, respectively construed by Greco-Roman standards of decency, Christian moral theology and modern biomedical knowledge and power, should rather be regarded as superimposed historical layers, and, consequently, LGBT/queer identities and forms of experience should be regarded as the more recent layers that retrieve, build upon, revise, re-appropriate and re-shape the preceding ones, but certainly do not abandon them to historical oblivion..

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Fascination of Queer

ISBN:: 9781848880795

出版社:: Brill

印刷出版日期:: 29 Apr 2011

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  - Cultural Studies
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