Edward Stein

The Mismeasure of Desire

The Science, Theory and Ethics of Sexual Orientation

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Oktober 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 164mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 699g
• ISBN-13: 9780195099959
• ISBN-10: 0195099958
• Artikelnr.: 63399974

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface
* Introduction
* Part I: Metaphysics
* 1: Sex, Gender, and Sexual Orientation
* 2: What Is a Sexual Orientation?
* 3: Human Kinds
* 4: Essentialism and Constructionism about Sexual Orientation
* Part II: Science
* 5: The Emerging Scientific Program for the Study of Sexual
Orientation
* 6: Animal Models and Evolutionary Accounts in the Emerging Research
Program
* 7: Critique of the Emerging Research Program
* 8: Experiential Theories of Sexual Orientation
* 9: Sexual Orientation and Choice
* Part III: Ethics
* 10: Lesbian and Gay Rights and the Science of Sexual Orientation
* 11: Selecting and Changing the Sexual Orientation of Children
* 12: Should Scientific Research on Sexual Orientation Be Done?
* Conclusion
* Notes
* Bibliography
* Index