Science and Homosexualities is the first anthology by historians of science to examine European and American scientific research on sexual orientation since the coining of the word 'homosexual' almost 150 years ago. Science and Homosexuality demonstrates that the quest for the biological 'cause' of homosexuality and other sexualities is as old as the term itself and explores the active role experimental subjects played in shaping scientific theories of homosexuality and cultural perceptions of sexuality and sexual identity.
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These themes are developed and examined in informative and rich analyses of various aspects of the historical and contemporary trends in the biomedical treatment of homosexuality and related phenomenon, such as intersexuality. -- Archives of Sexual Behavior
...the corpus of these essays demonstrates the complex, historically shifting interplay between researcher and subject. -- Archives of Sexual Behavior
All in all, this is an excellent collection of essays on the history and contemporary practice of biomedical science applied to homosexuality . The reader will gain a sophisticated understanding of the dialectics and contextual embeddedness of the scientific search for an understanding of sexuality and gender. -- Archives of Sexual Behavior
...quite well-written, provocative, occasionally witty and wryly amusing, and they should be accessible to newcomers as well as informative to readers who have already delved into these topics. -- Slogan
...the essays in this volume make compelling arguments about the need to take seriously the high stakes of science. -- CLGH
Taking on our fervent feelings about 'science' and our fervid responses to 'homosexuality,' these essays are doubly hot.. -- Jonathan Ned Katz
This extraordinary collection promises to become a classic. -- Sandra Harding
...the corpus of these essays demonstrates the complex, historically shifting interplay between researcher and subject. -- Archives of Sexual Behavior
All in all, this is an excellent collection of essays on the history and contemporary practice of biomedical science applied to homosexuality . The reader will gain a sophisticated understanding of the dialectics and contextual embeddedness of the scientific search for an understanding of sexuality and gender. -- Archives of Sexual Behavior
...quite well-written, provocative, occasionally witty and wryly amusing, and they should be accessible to newcomers as well as informative to readers who have already delved into these topics. -- Slogan
...the essays in this volume make compelling arguments about the need to take seriously the high stakes of science. -- CLGH
Taking on our fervent feelings about 'science' and our fervid responses to 'homosexuality,' these essays are doubly hot.. -- Jonathan Ned Katz
This extraordinary collection promises to become a classic. -- Sandra Harding
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Vernon A. Rosario II, M.D. teaches at the University of Pennsylvania.
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This book is an incredible collection of works by an impressive list of scholars. Rosario's editing is flawless, and Margaret Gibson's piece on the historical construction of the lesbian clitoris was particularly insightful, well-researched, and eloquent.
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An ocean of cultural differences and a century separate Dr. E.S.'s poignant self-analysis from a drag queen Tabboo!'s defiant paean to queerness sung to the crowds at Wigstock (New York's annual drag extravaganza). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
sexual intermediacy, female asexuality, contrary sexual feeling, contrary sexual sensation, mistaken sex, female inversion, female invert, female homosexual activity, gay scientists, gay brain, clitoral hypertrophy, search for the gay gene, genital sense, sex variants, sexual brain, human behavior genetics, sexual inversion, heterosexual brothers, male sexual orientation, sexual normality, human sexual orientation, sexual pathology, enlarged clitoris, female deviance, female homosexuality Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, Magnus Hirschfeld, Havelock Ellis, Harvard University Press, Basic Books, Richard von Krafft-Ebing, Archives of General Psychiatry, Garden City, Scientific American, University of Chicago Press, World War, Archives of Sexual Behavior, Dean Hamer, Oxford University Press, Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, Medical Record, Princeton University Press, Random House, Richard Pillard, San Francisco, Alfred Kinsey, Cambridge University Press, Hubert Kennedy, The Sexual Brain New!
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An ocean of cultural differences and a century separate Dr. E.S.'s poignant self-analysis from a drag queen Tabboo!'s defiant paean to queerness sung to the crowds at Wigstock (New York's annual drag extravaganza). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
sexual intermediacy, female asexuality, contrary sexual feeling, contrary sexual sensation, mistaken sex, female inversion, female invert, female homosexual activity, gay scientists, gay brain, clitoral hypertrophy, search for the gay gene, genital sense, sex variants, sexual brain, human behavior genetics, sexual inversion, heterosexual brothers, male sexual orientation, sexual normality, human sexual orientation, sexual pathology, enlarged clitoris, female deviance, female homosexuality Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, Magnus Hirschfeld, Havelock Ellis, Harvard University Press, Basic Books, Richard von Krafft-Ebing, Archives of General Psychiatry, Garden City, Scientific American, University of Chicago Press, World War, Archives of Sexual Behavior, Dean Hamer, Oxford University Press, Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, Medical Record, Princeton University Press, Random House, Richard Pillard, San Francisco, Alfred Kinsey, Cambridge University Press, Hubert Kennedy, The Sexual Brain New!
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- Psychopathia Sexualis by Richard Von KrafftEbing on 6 pages
- Sexual Behavior in the Human Male by Alfred Charles Kinsey on 4 pages
- Sex Education by Jenny Davis on page 175, page 195, and page 292
- Homosexuality in Modern France (Studies in the History of Sexuality) by Jeffrey Merrick on page 66, page 103, and page 107
- Forms of Desire: Sexual Orientation and the Social Constructionist Controversy by Edward Stein on page 24, page 64, and page 88
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- Irreconcilable Differences?: Intellectual Stalemate in the Gay Rights Debate by Thomas C. Caramagno on 8 pages
- Irreconcilable Differences?: Intellectual Stalemate in the Gay Rights Debate by Thomas C. Caramagno on 8 pages
- Sexualities In Health and Social Care by Wilton on 7 pages
- Sexology in Culture: Labelling Bodies and Desires by Lucy Bland on 6 pages
- Homosexual Desire in Revolutionary Russia: The Regulation of Sexual and Gender Dissent by Dan Healey on 6 pages
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