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Title Homosexuality/heterosexuality : concepts of sexual orientation / edited by David P. McWhirter, Stephanie A. Sanders, June Machover Reinisch.

Imprint New York : Oxford University Press, 1990.

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Description xxvii, 423 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Series The Kinsey Institute series ; v. 2
Kinsey Institute series ; v. 2.
Note Based on papers of an institute conference held in May 1986.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents The Kinsey scale in historical perspective / Vern Bullough -- Sexual and ethical categories in premodern Europe / John Boswell -- Some uses and abuses of the Kinsey scale / Bruce Voeller -- Agenda and credenda of the Kinsey scale / John Money -- Models of sexuality / Richard E. Whalen, David C. Geary, and Frank Johnson -- Biomedical theories of sexual orientation : a critical examination / Louis Gooren -- The Kinsey scale : is it familial? / Richard C. Pillard -- Commentary : biological contributions to sexual orientation / John Bancroft -- The Kinsey scale in biology, with a note on Kinsey as a biologist / James D. Weinrich -- Homosexual behavior in nonhuman primates / Ronald D. Nadler -- Primates, homo sapiens, and homosexuality / Leonard A. Rosenblum.
Gender preference in erotic relations : the Kinsey scale and sexual scripts / John H. Gagnon. -- Developmental discontinuities and sexual orientation across cultures / Gilbert Herdt -- The implications of homosexual identity formation for the Kinsey model and scale of sexual preference / Vivienne C. Cass -- Toward a synthetic understanding of sexual orientation / Eli Coleman -- The need to view sexual orientation as a multivariable dynamic process : a theoretical perspective / Fritz Klein -- Psychoanalytic theory and the therapy of gay men / Richard A. Isay -- Intimate relationships and the creation of sexuality / Philip Blumstein and Pepper Schwartz -- A relational perspective on homosexuality / Letitia Anne Peplau and Susan D. Cochran.
Lesbian relationships : implications for the study of sexuality and gender / Margaret Nichols -- Sex and more sex : a critique of the Kinsey conception of human sexuality / John P. De Cecco -- Constructing concepts of sexuality : a philosophical commentary / Noretta Koertge.
Language In English.
Summary The contributors address two focal questions: What have we learned about the nature of sexual orientation; and how can it be measured or classified for research purposes?
Subject Homosexuality -- Congresses.
Heterosexuality -- Congresses.
Homosexuality -- psychology. (DNLM)D006716Q000523
Heterosexuality. (OCoLC)fst00955788
Homosexuality. (OCoLC)fst00959755
Seksualiteit.
Homossexualismo (Sociologia)
Homossexualismo.
Indexed Term Sexuality
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings. (OCoLC)fst01423772
Conference papers and proceedings.
Added Author McWhirter, David P., 1932-2006.
Sanders, Stephanie A.
Reinisch, June Machover.
Other Form: Online version: Homosexuality/heterosexuality. New York : Oxford University Press, 1990 (OCoLC)988369098
ISBN 0195052056 (alk. paper)
9780195052053 (alk. paper)
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