One Hundred Years of Homosexuality
Cover, showing Jose de Madrazo Santander's painting The Death of the Spanish Rebel Viriathus | |
| Author | David M. Halperin |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Series | The New Ancient World |
| Subject | Homosexuality |
| Publisher | Routledge |
Publication date | 1990 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover and Paperback) |
| Pages | 230 |
| ISBN | 978-0415900973 |
One Hundred Years of Homosexuality: and other essays on Greek love is a 1990 book about homosexuality in ancient Greece by the classicist David M. Halperin, in which the author supports the social constructionist school of thought associated with the French philosopher Michel Foucault. The work has been praised by several scholars, but criticized by others, some of whom have attributed to Halperin the view that the coining of the word "homosexuality" in the nineteenth century brought homosexuality into existence. The book was often reviewed alongside John J. Winkler's The Constraints of Desire (1990).