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If You Seduce a Straight Person, Can You Make Them Gay? - Issues in Biological Essentialism Versus Social Constructionism in Gay and Lesbian Identities (Paperback)
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If You Seduce a Straight Person, Can You Make Them Gay? - Issues in Biological Essentialism Versus Social Constructionism in Gay and Lesbian Identities (Paperback)
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The debate on whether or not people are born homosexual (biological
essentialist theory) or become homosexual during the course of
their lives (social constructionist theory) continues as each side
claims to prove the truth through research and clinical findings.
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 view--sexual
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 the one-sidedness of both biological essentialist and social
constructionist versions of sexual and gender identity make it
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 readers to re-evaluate
their thinking about the origins of gay and lesbian identity. Among
the topics examined with this fresh perspective are: Childhood
Cross-Gender Behavior and Adult Homosexuality Gay and Lesbian
Teachers and Coming Out Homosexuality, Marriage, Fidelity, and the
Gay Community: Case of Gay Husbands Can Seduction Make Straight Men
Gay? Gay and Lesbian Identities in Non-industrialized
Societies--Surinam (Dutch New Guinea), Turkey, Nicaragua, and
Argentina Political-Economic Construction of Gay Male
IdentitiesReaders will clearly see that the controversy over the
being born gay or becoming gay debate is far from resolved. From
the beginning, the book explores how human beings are less
constrained by biology than many would like to believe. Social
circumstances and economics cause some determination of identity,
but not exclusively. Theoretical introductions to each chapter
attempt to synthesize elements on both sides of this most
contemporary debate."
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