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0415904854 978-0415904858 April 22, 1992 1
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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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.

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  • Paperback: 366 pages
  • Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (April 22, 1992)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0415904854
  • ISBN-13: 978-0415904858
  • Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 1 inches
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  • Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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2.0 out of 5 stars VARIOUS THEORIES OF HOMOSEXUALITY, September 25, 2010
This review is from: Forms of Desire: Sexual Orientation and the Social Constructionist Controversy (Paperback)
Edward Stein, editor
Forms of Desire:
Sexual Orientation and the Social Constructivist Controversy

(New York: Garland, 1990) 365 pages

Eleven authors attempt to understand the origins of homosexuality,
some tending toward nature, others toward nurture.
These articles have all appeared elsewhere earlier.
The authors tend to depend on library research
rather than original thinking or new scientific research.
The book is disappointing, but it is part of the on-going discussion
among advocates of various positions.
The sex-script hypothesis would have been helpful,
but it is not represented.

If you would like to read better books,
search the Internet for this bibliography:
"Best Books on Sexual Orientation".

James Leonard Park, author of
Imprinted Sexual Fantasies: A New Key for Sexology.
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A possible objection: it would be a mistake to see in this proliferation of discourses merely a quantitative phenomenon, something like a pure increase, as if what was said in them were immaterial, as if the fact of speaking about sex were of itself more important than the forms of imperatives that were imposed on it by speaking about it. Read the first page
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petual orientation, psychiatric style, dynamic nominalism, conceptualizing sexuality, gender transpositions, homosexual role, modern homosexual, constructionist critique, homosexual categories, reprinted this volume, social constructionism, categories heterosexual, constructionist controversy
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New York, United States, Jeffrey Weeks, Michel Foucault, Sexual Landscapes, John Boswell, Kegan Paul, Kenneth Plummer, Middle Ages, One Hundred Years, Social Psychology, Socialist Review, The Making of the Modern Homosexual, Harvard University Press, American Indian, Arnold Davidson, Basic Books, Beacon Press, Homosexualization of America, Ian Hacking, James Weinrich, Oxford University Press, Psychopathia Sexualis, Reconstructing Individualism, University of Chicago Press
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