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"""Is heterosexuality congenital or acquired? Is sexuality inborn or socially constructed? Or, according to the mushy middle model, is sexuality a bit inborn, a bit constructed? The loaded theories of sexuality's origin get a much needed historical look-see in Kahan's valuable, thought provoking book.""--Jonathan Ned Katz, author of The Invention of Heterosexuality ""The Book of Minor Perverts remakes the history of sexuality. Kahan illuminates what is missing: the stories told since the eighteenth century, and peaking during the Modernist period, about how people become homosexual. This is brilliant, upending, field-changing work, which will take its place beside groundbreaking projects from major historians of sexuality such as Michel Foucault and David Halperin, and leading LGBTQ literary critics such as Eve Sedgwick and Valerie Traub.""--Elizabeth Freeman, author of Time Binds"

Is heterosexuality congenital or acquired? Is sexuality inborn or socially constructed? Or, according to the mushy middle model, is sexuality a bit inborn, a bit constructed? The loaded theories of sexuality's origin get a much needed historical look-see in Kahan's valuable, thought provoking book. --Jonathan Ned Katz, author of The Invention of Heterosexuality The Book of Minor Perverts remakes the history of sexuality. Kahan illuminates what is missing: the stories told since the eighteenth century, and peaking during the Modernist period, about how people become homosexual. This is brilliant, upending, field-changing work, which will take its place beside groundbreaking projects from major historians of sexuality such as Michel Foucault and David Halperin, and leading LGBTQ literary critics such as Eve Sedgwick and Valerie Traub. --Elizabeth Freeman, author of Time Binds

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Benjamin Kahan is associate professor of English and women's and gender tudies at Louisiana State University.

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