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- In "Revolutions, Universals, and Sexual Categories", Boswell compares the constructionist – essentialist positions to the realist – nominalist dichotomy. He also lists three types of sexual taxonomies:
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Social constructionism is the view that the categories of sexual orientation (the category "homosexual" in particular, but also the categories "heterosexual" and "bisexual") are...
- illustrated, reprint
- 0415904854, 9780415904858
- Edward Stein
- Psychology Press, 1992
All of his work focused on the history of those at the margins of society. His first book, The Royal Treasure: Muslim Communities Under the Crown of Aragon in the Fourteenth Century, appeared in 1977. In 1994, Boswell's fourth book, Same-Sex Unions in Pre-Modern Europe, was published.
Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century is a 1980 book about the history of Christianity and homosexuality by the historian John Boswell.
- John Boswell
- 1980
May 1, 2024 · This article examines the analogy between gays and Jews in John Boswell’s scholarship in order to analyze the role of Jewishness in the construction of the field of history of sexuality. Boswell argues that Jews and gays have a similar social status throughout history until contemporary times, when gays continue to struggle while Jews have ...
In sum, the assumption that humans have no basic, fundamental sexual nature that is transhistorical and transcultural, and to which labels such as “heterosexual”, “homosexual,” and “bisexual” can unproblematically be applied, is a key feature of social constructionist theory.
Apr 11, 2017 · In this chapter, the focus is on the social construction of meaning, perceptions of physical reality, communication norms, and self-identity within the metaverse.
Three articles are critical of social constructionism: Weinrich's call for a more interactionist approach combining social and biological knowledge about sexual desire; an attack by Dynes using various approaches of intellectual history and historicism; and Boswell's excellent article (one of the best in the collection) on
