John Dececco, John Patrick Elia

If You Seduce a Straight Person, Can You Make Them Gay?

Issues in Biological Essentialism Versus Social Constructionism in Gay and Lesbian Identities

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Produktbeschreibung

This breakthrough book shows the fissures in concepts of the gay and lesbian identity and the one-sidedness of both biological essentialist and social constructionist versions of both sexual and gender identity. The editors present an alternative viewsexual and gender expression is a product of complementary biological, personal, and cultural influences in If You Seduce a Straight Person, Can You Make Them Gay? Through theoretical analysis, ethnographic and empirical data, and case studies, the editors show how it is difficult, if not impossible, to conceptually determine the origin of an individual's sexual expression. This thought-provoking book covers many topics that are sure to cause many readers to re-evaluate their thinking about the origins of gay and lesbian identity.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. April 1993
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 153mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 478g
• ISBN-13: 9781560243861
• ISBN-10: 1560243864
• Artikelnr.: 57058275

Autorenporträt

John Dececco, Phd, John Patrick Elia

Inhaltsangabe

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