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Author: Edward Stein
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2001-04-12
Total Pages: 406
ISBN-13: 0195142446
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn recent years, scientific research & popular opinion have favoured the idea that sexual orientations are determined at birth, but Edward Stein argues that this may be wrong. This book offers an examination of contemporary thinking on this issue.
Author: Stephen Jay Gould
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2006-06-17
Total Pages: 458
ISBN-13: 0393340406
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe definitive refutation to the argument of The Bell Curve. When published in 1981, The Mismeasure of Man was immediately hailed as a masterwork, the ringing answer to those who would classify people, rank them according to their supposed genetic gifts and limits. And yet the idea of innate limits—of biology as destiny—dies hard, as witness the attention devoted to The Bell Curve, whose arguments are here so effectively anticipated and thoroughly undermined by Stephen Jay Gould. In this edition Dr. Gould has written a substantial new introduction telling how and why he wrote the book and tracing the subsequent history of the controversy on innateness right through The Bell Curve. Further, he has added five essays on questions of The Bell Curve in particular and on race, racism, and biological determinism in general. These additions strengthen the book's claim to be, as Leo J. Kamin of Princeton University has said, "a major contribution toward deflating pseudo-biological 'explanations' of our present social woes."
Author: Bruce Bawer
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2008-06-30
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 1439128480
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBruce Bawer exposes the heated controversy over gay rights and presents a passionate plea for the recognition of common values, "a place at the table" for everyone.
Author: Michael Ruse
Publisher:
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 299
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Kenneth J. Zucker
Publisher: Guilford Press
Published: 1995-10-13
Total Pages: 462
ISBN-13: 9780898622669
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis unique and timely volume provides a comprehensive overview of the most recent clinical work and research on the topic. Following an overview of the disorder, the first section of the book deals with young children, providing a detailed analysis of gender identity disorder in both boys and girls. The second section, which focuses on adolescents, covers gender identity disorder, transvestic fetishism - also based on the largest sample of individuals ever studied - and homosexuality. Detailed clinical case material, which brings the issues to life, is included throughout.
Author: Wayne R. Dynes
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-03-22
Total Pages: 796
ISBN-13: 1317368150
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1990, The Encyclopedia of Homosexuality brings together a collection of outstanding articles that were, at the time of this book’s original publication, classic, pioneering, and recent. Together, the two volumes provide scholarship on male and female homosexuality and bisexuality, and, reaching beyond questions of physical sexuality, they examine the effects of homophilia and homophobia on literature, art, religion, science, law, philosophy, society, and history. Many of the writings were considered to be controversial, and often contradictory, at that time, and refer to issues and difficulties that still exist today. This volume contains entries from A-L.
Author: David M Halperin
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-07-26
Total Pages: 235
ISBN-13: 113660877X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHalperin's subject is the erotics of male culture in ancient Greece. Arguing that the modern concept of "homosexuality" is an inadequate tool for the interpretation of these features of sexual life in antiquity, Halperin offers an alternative account that accords greater prominence to the indigenous terms in which sexual experiences were constituted in the ancient Mediterranean world. Wittily and provocatively written, Halperin's meticulously drawn windows onto ancient sexuality give us a new meaning to the concept of "Greek love."
Author: Alan Paul Bell
Publisher:
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 264
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn official publication of the Alfred C. Kinsey Institute for Sex Research.
Author: Martin Duberman
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2019-06-04
Total Pages: 449
ISBN-13: 0593083997
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe definitive account of the Stonewall Riots, the first gay rights march, and the LGBTQ activists at the center of the movement. “Martin Duberman is a national treasure.”—Masha Gessen, The New Yorker On June 28, 1969, the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York's Greenwich Village, was raided by police. But instead of responding with the typical compliance the NYPD expected, patrons and a growing crowd decided to fight back. The five days of rioting that ensued changed forever the face of gay and lesbian life. In Stonewall, renowned historian and activist Martin Duberman tells the full story of this pivotal moment in history. With riveting narrative skill, he re-creates those revolutionary, sweltering nights in vivid detail through the lives of six people who were drawn into the struggle for LGBTQ rights. Their stories combine to form an unforgettable portrait of the repression that led up to the riots, which culminates when they triumphantly participate in the first gay rights march of 1970, the roots of today's pride marches. Fifty years after the riots, Stonewall remains a rare work that evokes with a human touch an event in history that still profoundly affects life today.
Author: David L. Balch
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2007-07-01
Total Pages: 331
ISBN-13: 1556355386
DOWNLOAD EBOOKElucidates the pros and cons of current Christian discussion on the question of homosexuality. Challenges partisan views and provides a balanced discussion.
