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Author:   John Dececco, Phd ,  John Patrick Elia
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Inc
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 21.20cm
Weight:   0.520kg
ISBN:  

9781560230342

ISBN 10:   1560230347
Pages:   280
Publication Date:   22 April 1993
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Contents Preface I. Introduction A Critique and Synthesis of Biological Essentialist and Social Constructionist Views of Sexuality and Gender II. Biological Issues in Gender and Sexual Identity Essentialism, Which Essentialism?: Some Implications of Reproductive and Genetic Techno-Science Childhood Cross-Gender Behavior and Adult Homosexuality: The Resurgence of Biological Models of Sexuality Reproductive Strategies and Gender Construction: An Evolutionary View of Homosexualities The Social Construction of Homosexuals in the Nineteenth Century: The Shift From the Sin to the Influence of Medicine on Criminalizing Sodomy in Germany III. Politically Incorrect Identities The Construction of Identities as a Means of Survival: Case of Gay and Lesbian Teachers Gay Fathers in Straight Marriages Homosexuality and Marriage IV. Fluidity of Sexual Identity Can Seduction Make Straight Men Gay? The Freudian Construction of Sexuality: The Gay Foundations of Heterosexuality and Straight Homophobia V. Gay and Lesbian Identities in the Third World Mati-ism and Black Lesbianism Homosexuality and Police Terror in Turkey In Nicaragua: Homosexuality Without a Gay World Invertidos Sexuales, Tortilleras, and Maricas Machos: The Construction of Homosexuality in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1900–1950 VI. Capitalism and the Gay Identity Political-Economic Construction of Gay Male Clone Identity The Mineshaft: A Retrospective Ethnography Reference Notes Included Index

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