Prostitution and the Question of Sexual Identity in Medieval Europe

摘要: What has by now become the master narrative of the history sexuality holds that not only homosexuality but whole concept is a creation nineteenth-century bourgeois society. This article argues sexual identities, constructed through what Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick calls "minoritizing discourses," can be found much earlier, in premodern Western societies. In European Middle Ages, for example, although there nothing congruent to modern homosexual identity, prostitution was identity any relevant sense the word. case raises question whether interplay between act and might more complex than many interpreters Michel Foucault would make it, and fact socially constructed means it nineteenth century.