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Your Place or Mine?
by Gilles Dauve
PM Press, £16.99
LIKE a homo-Marxist Montaigne (the great French essayist of the Enlightenment) Gilles Dauve opens his seminal account of “the modern invention of homosexuality”, Your Place or Mine, with two questions:
“How did homosexuality… a human practice usually repressed or ignored… become socially visible and accepted towards the end of the twentieth century? And how did it come to define an identity?”
At the conclusion of what he calls a “fragmented historical narrative” he returns to his questions to give the reader a sense of the overarching shape of the history that has led to the present day.
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