The Mismeasure of Desire: The Science, Theory, and Ethics of Sexual Orientation

By E. Stein. 2002

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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

Subfields: Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science

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In Gender Studies

1. B. Cohler
2. Phillip L. Hammack

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Phillip L. Hammack
2. B. Cohler
3. L. Mayers
4. Eric P. Windell
5. Erin E Toolis
6. A. Pilecki

Citations in the corpus

• The Psychological World of the Gay Teenager:Social Change, Narrative, and “Normality” (2007, background): “In addition, new representations of sexuality have called into question the very polarity of the distinction between “gay” and “straight” (Stein, 1999), suggesting greater fluidity to sexual desire.”
• Narrative, psychology and the politics of sexual identity in the United States: from ‘sickness’ to ‘species’ to ‘subject’ (2013, background): “…research to reinforce ideas about the rigidity of a gender binary and to associate homosexuality with gender inversion would come under considerable scrutiny in the 1990s (e.g. Hegarty, 1997; Stein, 1999), as literature in feminist studies and queer theory presented challenges to this paradigm.”
• An Integrative Paradigm (2005, background): “Methodological shortcomings aside [see Banks & Gartrell, 1995; Byne, 1995, 1997; Byne & Parsons, 1993; Stein, 1999; Van Wyck & Geist, 1995; Weinrich, 1995], there is compelling, converging evidence to suggest that biology plays some role in the development of same-sex sex- 278 Human Development…”
• The Life Course Development of Human Sexual Orientation: An Integrative Paradigm (2005, background): “Methodological shortcomings aside [see Banks & Gartrell, 1995; Byne, 1995, 1997; Byne & Parsons, 1993; Stein, 1999; Van Wyck & Geist, 1995; Weinrich, 1995], there is compelling, converging evidence to suggest that biology plays some role in the development of same-sex sex- 278 Human Development…”
• Towards a queer research methodology (2004, unknown): “…fringes of the social sciences such projects are already forming, as scholars try to understand what questions researchers should be asking about sex, gender, sexuality and identity (see in particular Coyle and Kitzinger, 2002; Holmes and Warner, 2004; McIlvenny, 2002; Seidman, 1996; Stein, 1999).”
• Narrative and the Cultural Psychology of Identity (2008, background): “…A. Stein, 1997), Cohler’s personological and historical approach to examining gay male identity development in the United States is innovative and challenges the dominant narrative of biological determinism in male sexual orientation (e.g., Bailey & Pillard, 1991; for review, see E. Stein, 1999).”