Science and Homosexualities
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Science and Homosexualities

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eBook - ePub

Science and Homosexualities

About this book

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. This collection is particularly timely given the enormous scientific and popular interest in biological studies of homosexuality, and the importance given such studies in current legal, legislative and cultural debates concerning gay civil rights. However, scientific and popular literature discussing the biology of sexual orientation have been short-sighted in representing it as objective, new scientific work. This volume demonstrates that the quest for the biological "cause" of homosexuality and other sexualities is as old as the term itself. These essays explore the active role experimental subjects played in shaping scientific theories of homosexuality and cultural perceptions of sexuality and sexual identity. Finally this anthology studies the way in which this doctor-patient interaction shaped not only scientific theories of homosexuality, but also cultural perceptions and self-identities as well.

Contributors include: Garland E. Allen, Erin G. Carlston, Julian Carter, Alice D. Dreger, Anne Fausto-Sterling, Margaret Gibson, Stephanie Kenen, Hubert Kennedy, Harry Oosterhuis, James Steakley, Richard Pillard, Jennifer Terry

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Yes, you can access Science and Homosexualities by Vernon A. Rosario, M.D. in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Scienze sociali & Studi su tematiche LGBT. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2013
eBook ISBN
9781136047749
Topic
Scienze sociali
Subtopic
Studi su tematiche LGBT

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Full Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Homosexual Bio-Histories: Genetic Nostalgias and the Quest for Paternity
  9. Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, First Theorist of Homosexuality
  10. Hermaphrodites in Love: The Truth of the Gonads
  11. Richard von Krafft-Ebing's ā€œStep-Children Of Natureā€: Psychiatry and the Making of Homosexual Identity
  12. Inversion's Histories | History's Inversions: Novelizing Fin-de-SiĆØcle Homosexuality
  13. Clitoral Corruption: Body Metaphors and American Doctors' Constructions of Female Homosexuality, 1870ā€“1900
  14. Per scientiam adjustitiam: Magnus Hirschfeld and the Sexual Politics of Innate Homosexuality
  15. Normality, Whiteness, Authorship: Evolutionary Sexology and the Primitive Pervert
  16. ā€œA Finer Differentiationā€: Female Homosexuality and the American Medical Community, 1926ā€“1940
  17. Who Counts When You're Counting Homosexuals? Hormones and Homosexuality in Mid-Twentieth-Century America
  18. How to Build a Man
  19. The Search for a Genetic Influence on Sexual Orientation
  20. The Double-Edged Sword of Genetic Determinism: Social and Political Agendas in Genetic Studies of Homosexuality, 1940ā€“1994
  21. The Seductive Power of Science in the Making of Deviant Subjectivity
  22. Notes on Contributors
  23. Index