1st Edition

Reclaiming Sodom

By Jonathan Goldberg Copyright 1995
308 Pages
by Routledge

308 Pages
by Routledge

Within the Judeo-Christian tradition, Sodom and Gomorrah represent locales in which threats to national formation are couched in sexual terms. The biblical narrative insists on a particular social invisibility for those sexual activities not blessed by the bonds of matrimony. Reclaiming Sodom surveys a number of institutions that have had an interest in perpetuating these views: the... Read more
Acknowledgements, Introduction, I Laws of Desire, II Pleasures and Dangers

Biography

Jonathan Goldberg