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Topic: New York publisher cancels book on homosexuality in Antiquity
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deBeauxOs
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posted 02 October 2005 06:03 PM
Haworth Press in New York has cancelled the publication of an edited collection of articles about homosexuality in Antiquity, stating that one of the texts could be perceived as supporting sexual relations between men and boys.The editors, professors Beerte Verstraete and Vernon Provencal, of Acadia University, have challenged the decision. Haworth Press has recently been targeted by an internet campaign, led by a conservative group against the publication of this book. -*-*-*-*-*-*- I found this news item at Radio Canada; it is a very loose translation. Does anyone have more information about this?
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deBeauxOs
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posted 02 October 2005 06:19 PM
Two Acadia University professors are shocked that a scholarly volume they compiled on homosexuality in classical antiquity has been spiked by its New York publisher following criticism from a conservative American website.“This says a lot about the United States right now,” Beerte Verstraete said Friday. He and fellow classics professor Vernon Provencal compiled and edited the volume of essays titled Same-Sex Desire and Love in Greco-Roman Antiquity and in the Classical Tradition of the West. More here.
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Américain Égalitaire
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posted 02 October 2005 06:29 PM
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Originally posted by deBeauxOs:
“This says a lot about the United States right now,” Beerte Verstraete said Friday.
Oh yes indeed it does. The stupids are winning. Obviously I'm going to need a Canadian publisher for my book. The 1st Amendment is dying. Hear it shrieking in the night.
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deBeauxOs
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posted 02 October 2005 07:49 PM
The Catherine wheel is the breaking wheel, an instrument of torture.According to the popular tradition, Catherine was born of a patrician family of Alexandria and from childhood had devoted herself to study. Through her reading she had learned much of Christianity and had been converted by a vision of Our Lady and the Holy Child. When Maxentius began his persecution, Catherine ...went to him and rebuked him boldly for his cruelty. He could not answer her arguments against his pagan gods, and summoned fifty philosophers to confute her. They all confessed themselves won over by her reasoning, and were thereupon burned to death by the enraged Emperor. He then tried to seduce Catherine with an offer of a consort's crown, and when she indignantly refused him, he had her beaten and imprisoned. The Emperor went off to inspect his military forces, and when he got back he discovered that his wife Faustina and a high official, one Porphyrius, had been visiting Catherine and had been converted, along with the soldiers of the guard. They too were put to death, and Catherine was sentenced to be killed on a spiked wheel. When she was fastened to the wheel, her bonds were miraculously loosed and the wheel itself broke, its spikes flying off and killing some of the onlookers. She was then beheaded. source
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Michelle
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posted 02 October 2005 08:45 PM
You know, it's really stupid, too. We're talking about a time when there really wasn't what was considered a "childhood", and girls were married at ages that would also be considered pedophilia-range today.Why don't we hear the fundyfuckheads whining about that, when it's mentioned in books and scholarly articles about ancient (and not so ancient - there are places in the world now that marry girls as young as 9) civilizations? Why don't we hear them complaining about Jesus's father Joseph, the pedophile who wanted to get married to what would now be considered a girl under the age of consent? [ 02 October 2005: Message edited by: Michelle ]
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skdadl
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posted 03 October 2005 08:05 AM
I'm not familiar with Haworth Press (although the name is resonant -- Haworth is the village in Yorkshire that was the home of the Brontes).On their website they say that they are publishers of scholarly and "professional" books and journals -- from a quick scan, they seem heavy on medical or alternative-therapeutic works and journals, although they also do general publishing -- they seem to have a series of GLBT science fiction, eg. Anyway, this is, of course, to be fought hard. The grounds for censorship of all kinds have, I fear, been well prepared over the last generation or so, and some of the tillers have even been, in theory, on the left. This kind of nonsense is inevitable in a culture that has allowed the chipping away of the principled defence of freedom of thought, expression, and conscience.
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