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A DISPUTED VOLUME on homosexuality in the classical world will be published after all, Haworth Press announced on Tuesday, and the controversial essay that almost sank the book will also be published, but in a different venue. Late last month, the press announced the cancellation of Same-Sex Desire and Love in Greco-Roman Antiquity and in the Classical Tradition of the West, an edited volume that had been scheduled for publication in November. (It was to have been published simultaneously as a special issue of The Journal of Homosexuality, which is also published by Haworth.) The press scratched the book after conservative activists objected to one of its 15 essays, which they saw as a defense of pederasty in present-day society. On Tuesday, Haworth reversed course and announced that the book and journal would indeed be published -- but without the controversial essay, which was written by Bruce L. Rind, an adjunct instructor in psychology at Temple University. Mr. Rind's essay, meanwhile, will be published in a future "supplementary volume" of The Journal of Homosexuality, according to the press's announcement. Chronicle of Higher Education 10/12/05 http://chronicle.com/daily/2005/10/2005101202n.htm
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