Sodometries: Renaissance Texts, Modern Sexualities
This book is about representations of sodomy. While most of the texts it considers are literary-works by Shakespeare, Marlowe, Spenser, among others-it is framed by political considerations, notably the 1986 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Bowers v. Hardwick that denied any constitutional act to private consensual acts that the court termed 'homosexual sodomy' and the rhetoric attaching sodomy to Saddam Hussein in the initial U.S. war in Iraq.The book takes as axiomatic Foucault's description...
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“At the very cutting edge of its field, an indispensable guide to the sexuality of the world that preceded our own”—Alan J. M. Bray“Sodometries is a stunning book: the complexity of its intelligence and the beauty of its stylistic accomplishments take one’s breath away.”—Journal of the History of Sexuality
Preface xv1 Introduction: "That Utterly Confused Category" 1Part 1 "Wee/Men": Gender and Sexuality in the Formations of Elizabethan High Literariness2 The Making of Courtly Makers 293 Spenser's Familiar Letters 63Part 2 "Play the Sodomites, or Worse": The Elizabethan Theater4 The Transvestite Stage: More on the Case of Christopher Marlowe 1055 Desiring Hal 145Part 3 "They are all Sodomites": The new world6 Discovering America 1797 Bradford's "Ancient Members" and "A Case of Buggery...Amongst Them" 2238 Tailpiece: From William Bradford to William Buckley 247Notes 253Index 289
