Forms of Desire (eBook, ePUB)

Sexual Orientation and the Social Constructionist Controversy
Redaktion: Stein, Edward

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Perhaps the foremost issue in the emerging area of inquiry known as lesbian and gay studies is the social constructionist controversy. Social constructionism is the view that the categories of sexual orientation are cultural constructs rather than naturally universal categories. Forms of Desire brings together important essays by social constructionists and their critics, representing several disciplines and approaches to this debate about the history and science of sexuality.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 366
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134977208
• Artikelnr.: 40186350

Autorenporträt

Edward Stein is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Research Fellow in the College of Arts and Sciences at New York University. A specialist in the philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, and gay and lesbian studies, he is co-founder of the Boston area Gay and Lesbian Academic Study Seminar.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: The Perverse Implantation
Chapter 3: The Homosexual Role
Chapter 4: Sexual Matters:On Conceptualizing Sexuality in History
Chapter 5: Making Up People
Chapter 6: Sex and the Emergence of Sexuality
Chapter 7: Categories, Experience and Sexuality
Chapter 8: Reality or Social Construction?
Chapter 9: Wrestling with the Social Boa Constructor
Chapter 10: Gay Politics, Ethnic Identity: The Limits of Social Constructionism
Chapter 11: Social Constructionism and the Study of Human Sexuality
Chapter 12: Conclusion: The Essentials of Constructionism and the Construction of Essentialism