Mismeasure of Desire
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-509995-9 (ISBN)
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A critical analysis of scientific research on sexual orientation, its methodological and ontological assumptions and its ethical implications. The book argues that we are far from understanding how human sexual desires originate and that our thinking about sexual orientations and the issues relating to them are based on unfounded cultural assumptions on sexual orientation. In a clear, careful and accessible style, the book examines and extends contemporary thinking about human sexual desire.
Edward Stein is the author of Without Good Reason: The Rationality Debate in Philosophy and Cognitive Science (OUP) and the editor of Forms of Desire: Sexual Orientation and the Social Constructionist Controversy. He holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from M.I.T. and has taught at Yale University, New York University, Mount Holyoke College, and Williams College. He will be receiving a J.D. from Yale Law School in 2000.
PART 1: METAPHYSICS; Sex, Gender and Sexual Orientation; What is Sexual Orientation?; Human Kinds; Essentialism and Constructionism about Sexual Orientation; PART 2: SCIENCE; The Emerging Scientific Program for the Study of Sexual Orientation; Animal Models and Evolutionary Accounts in the Merging Research Program; Critique of the Emerging Research Program; Experiential Theories of Sexual Orientation; Sexual Orientation and Choice; PART 3: ETHICS; Lesbian and Gay Rights and the Science of Sexual Orientation; Selecting and Changing the Sexual Orientation of Children; Should Scientific Research on Sexual Orientation be Done?
| Zusatzinfo | 10 line illustrations, notes, bibliography, index |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 150 x 230 mm |
| Gewicht | 712 g |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sexualität / Partnerschaft | |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Humanbiologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-509995-8 / 0195099958 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-509995-9 / 9780195099959 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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