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Forms of Desire: Sexual Orientation and the Social Constructionist Controversy
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Forms of Desire: Sexual Orientation and the Social Constructionist Controversy Paperback - 1992 - 1st Edition

by Edward Stein (Editor)


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Perhaps the foremost 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 are cultural constructs rather than naturally universal categories.
Forms of Desire brings together important essays by social constructionists and their critics, representing several disciplines and approaches to this debate about the history and science of sexuality.

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A possible objection: it would be a mistake to see in this proliferation of discourses merely a quantitative phenomenon, something like a pure increase, as if what was said in them were immaterial, as if the fact of speaking about sex were of itself more important than the forms of imperatives that were imposed on it by speaking about it.

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  • Title Forms of Desire: Sexual Orientation and the Social Constructionist Controversy
  • Author Edward Stein (Editor)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 366
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Routledge, New York
  • Date 1992-04-22
  • ISBN 9780415904858 / 0415904854
  • Weight 1.36 lbs (0.62 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.04 x 6.06 x 0.95 in (22.96 x 15.39 x 2.41 cm)
  • Themes
    • Sex & Gender: Gay
    • Sex & Gender: Lesbian
  • Library of Congress subjects Homosexuality - United States, Gays - United States - Social conditions
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 91037164
  • Dewey Decimal Code 306.766

About the author

Edward Stein is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Research Fellow in the College of Arts and Sciences at New York University. A specialist in the philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, and gay and lesbian studies, he is co-founder of the Boston area Gay and Lesbian Academic Study Seminar.

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