Constructing the Heterosexual, Homosexual, Bisexual System

The human production of the terms and concepts heterosexual, homosexual, and bisexual are presented here as evidence of the construction of a historically specific social order or regime. That is the social-historical institution or system that divides people, identities, desires, acts, relationships, and groups into heterosexual, homosexual, or bisexual with profound subjective and objective, psychological and social consequences.

The chronology includes scholarly works dating to the 1980s when historians began to develop what is now called "critical heterosexual history," analysis that interrogates the historically specific discourses and institutions that comprise the hetero, homo, bi system. 

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