Homosexuality/heterosexuality : concepts of sexual orientation
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Homosexuality/heterosexuality : concepts of sexual orientation
（Kinsey Institute series, v. 2）
Oxford University Press, 1990
Available at 8 libraries
Note
Based on papers of an institute conference held in May 1986
Includes bibliographies and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The contributors address two focal questions: What have we learned about the nature of sexual orientation; and how can it be measured or classified for research purposes? The book is aimed at psychologists, biologists, sociologists interested in human sexual behaviour and psychiatrists, as well as educated laypeople interested in the subject.
Table of Contents
- Part I: Historical and religious perspectives: Vern Bullough: The Kinsey scale in historical perspective
- John Boswell: Sexual and ethical categories in premodern Europe
- Bruce Voeller: Some uses and abuses of the Kinsey scale
- Part II: Psychobiological perspective: John Money: Agenda and credenda of the Kinsey scale
- Richard E. Whalen, David C. Geary, & Frank Johnson: Models of sexuality
- Louis Gooren: Biomedical theories of sexual orientation: a critical examination
- Richard C. Pillard: The Kinsey scale: is it familial?
- John Bancroft: Commentary: biological contributions to sexual orientation
- Part III: Evolutionary perspective: James D. Weinrich: The Kinsey scale, with a note on Kinsey the biologist
- Ronald D. Nadler: Homosexual behavior in nonhuman primates
- Leonard A. Rosenblum: Primates, homo sapiens, and homosexuality
- Part IV: Cultural and sociological perspectives: John H. Gagnou: Gender preference in erotic relations: The Kinsey scale and sexual scripts
- Gilbert Herdt: Developmental discontinuities and sexual orientation across cultures
- Part V: Identity development perspective: Vivienne C. Cass: The implications of homosexual identity formation for the Kinsey model and scale of sexual preference
- Eli Coleman: Toward a synthetic understanding of sexual orientation
- Frita Klein: The need to view sexual orientation as a multivariable dynamic process: A theoretical perspective
- Richard A. Isay: Psychoanalytic theory and the therapy of gay men
- Part VI: Relational perspective: Philip Blumstein, & Pepper Schwartz: Intimate relationships and the creation of sexuality
- Letitia Anne Peplau, & Susan D. Cochran: A relational perspective on homosexuality
- Margaret Nichols: Lesbian relationships: implications for the study of sexuality and gender
- Part VII: conceptual and theoretical perspectives: John P. De Cecco: Sex and more sex: a critique of the Kinsey conception of human sexuality
- Noretta Koertge: Constructing concepts of sexuality - a philosophical commentary.
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