| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 366 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Chapter One. Introduction / Edward Stein -- Chapter Two. The Perverse Implantation / Michel Foucault -- Chapter Three. The Homosexual Role / Mary McIntosh -- Chapter Four. Sexual Matters: On Conceptualizing Sexuality in History / Robert Padgug -- Chapter Five. Making Up People / Ian Hacking -- Chapter Six. Sex and the Emergence of Sexuality / Arnold Davidson -- Chapter Seven. Concepts, Experience, and Sexuality / John Boswell -- Chapter Eight. Reality or Social Construction? / James Weinrich -- Chapter Nine. Wrestling with the Social Boa Constructor / Wayne R. Dynes -- Chapter Ten. Gay Politics, Ethnic Identity: The Limits of Social Constructionism / Steven Epstein -- Chapter Eleven. Social Constructionism and the Study of Human Sexuality / Leonore Tiefer -- Chapter Twelve. Conclusion: The Essentials of Constructionism and the Construction of Essentialism / Edward Stein |
| Summary |
"Perhaps the central 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 (the category "homosexual" in particular, but also the categories "heterosexual" and "bisexual") are cultural constructs rather than universal categories of nature. According to this view, it makes no sense to say, for example, that Socrates was a homosexual because the cultural kind had not yet been constructed. Forms of Desire brings together important essays by social constructionists and their critics representing several disciplines and several different approaches to this debate about the history and science of sexuality. The recent social constructionist viewpoint has its contemporary sources in two different schools of thought: continental philosophy as represented by Michel Foucault and the social interactionist school of sociology as represented by Mary McIntosh.The position's more distant ancestry involves the philosophical position known as nominalism. By bringing together papers which discuss different versions of social constructionism, as well as a number of papers critical of the view, the anthology provides easy access to the important essays on the topic and makes more transparent both the position and its genealogy. Contributors: John Boswell, Arnold Davidson, Wayne R. Dynes, Steven Epstein, Michel Foucault, Ian Hacking, Mary McIntosh, Robert Padgug, Edward Stein, Leonore Tiefer, James Weinrich." http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0651/91037164-d.html |
| Analysis |
Homosexuality |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-366) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Homosexuality -- United States
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Gay people -- United States -- Social conditions
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gay Studies.
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Gays -- Social conditions
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Homosexuality
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homosexualité -- Etats-Unis -- études diverses.
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constructionnisme social -- orientation -- sexualité -- études diverses.
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Stein, Edward, 1965-
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| ISBN |
9781134977130 |
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1134977131 |
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9780203760130 |
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0203760131 |
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