Age-Stratifying Homosexualities in the Social Sciences

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• 作者：Diederik F. Janssen
• 关键词：Homosexuality ; Age ; Social sciences ; Anthropology ; History ; Review
• 刊名：Sexuality & Culture
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：March 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：21
• 期：1
• 页码：300-322
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• 刊物主题：Social Sciences, general; Personality and Social Psychology; Psychology, general; Regional and Cultural Studies;
• 出版者：Springer US
• ISSN：1936-4822
• 卷排序：21

文摘

During the latter half of the twentieth century, Anglo-American sociologists advanced cross-cultural and historical typifications of “age-stratified homosexualities”, differentiated from, in particular, “gender-based” and “egalitarian” varieties of same-sex intimacies. In their arguable aftermath, these typological demarcations and juxtapositions may be appreciated as participating in and proclaiming a distinct moment of arrival and consolidation for a broader scope of Western adult “gay” identities and politics. To this end, an historical appraisal is offered of this demarcation and typing of “homosexualities” in terms of age and gender, especially recalling that the earliest apologetic constructions of homosexuality in Northern Europe already proposed both philologically and ethno-geographically informed distinctions between “man-manly” (and eventually “woman-womanly”) love and boy-love. Notwithstanding, the perennial typological distinction of “age-stratification” in “LGBT”-identified advocacy and social sciences, has been, and remains, more problematic than has been, or can be, expressed in terms of social roles, organizations or systems. Implications for ongoing Western psychiatric circumscriptions of “pedophilia” and “hebephilia”, for instance, remain notably unexplored both historically and anthropologically.