Overview

This volume presents an updated and interactionist theory of sexual attraction, in which biologically based erotic processing biases are continually exploited or challenged by social and cultural conditions. From this perspective, social orientation is viewed as a process rather than an outcome. The author takes an interdisciplinary approach that draws upon data from anthropology, sociology, gender studies, social constructionism, behavioural and developmental psychology, evolutionary biology, genetics, endocrinology and cognitive functioning to support his theory. This text should be useful to sexologists, evolutionary biologists, psychologists and other social scientists interested in human sexuality.

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Author:   Michael R. Kauth
Publisher:   Springer Science+Business Media
Imprint:   Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers
Edition:   2000 ed.
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   1.660kg
ISBN:  

9780306463907

ISBN 10:   0306463903
Pages:   250
Publication Date:   31 August 2000
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1: Obfuscation and Clarification: An Introduction.- 1.1 Challenging Assumptions.- 1.2 Naming Sexual Attraction.- 1.3 Overview of the Book.- 2: Libido and Learning: Psychosocial Models.- 2.1 Freud and the Post-Freudians.- 2.2 Learning and Conditioning.- 2.3 Salvaging Psychosexual Theories of Sexual Attraction.- 3: Culture’s Child: A Social Constructionist Model.- 3.1 The Essentialist-Constructionist “Debate”: Principles of Social Constructionism.- 3.2 Limits of Social Constructionism.- 3.3 Salvaging Social Constructionism.- 4: Parts and Pieces: Evolutionary and Biological Models.- 4.1 Androgen Under- and Overexposure Theories.- 4.2 Other Biomedical Research in Sexual Orientation Development.- 4.3 Salvaging Biomedical Models of Sexual Attraction.- 5: A Synthesis: The Development and Function of Sexual Attractions.- 5.1 Ultimate Causation.- 5.2 Proximate Causation.- 5.3 Summary and Conclusions.- 6: Present and Future Questions.- 6.1 A Research Program.- 6.2 Afterword.- Endnotes.

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'This is a remarkably good book.' READINGS, March 2001

'This is a remarkably good book.' READINGS, March 2001

This is a remarkably good book.' READINGS, March 2001

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