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Perhaps The Central 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 (the Category Homosexual In Particular, But Also The Categories Heterosexual And Bisexual) Are Cultural Constructs Rather Than Universal Categories Of Nature. According To This View, It Makes No Sense To Say, For Example, That Socrates Was A Homosexual Because The Cultural Kind Had Not Yet Been Constructed. Forms Of Desire Brings Together Important Essays By Social Constructionists And Their Critics Representing Several Disciplines And Several Different Approaches To This Debate About The History And Science Of Sexuality. The Recent Social Constructionist Viewpoint Has Its Contemporary Sources In Two Different Schools Of Thought: Continental Philosophy As Represented By Michel Foucault And The Social Interactionist School Of Sociology As Represented By Mary Mcintosh.the Position's More Distant Ancestry Involves The Philosophical Position Known As Nominalism. By Bringing Together Papers Which Discuss Different Versions Of Social Constructionism, As Well As A Number Of Papers

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Author

Edward Stein (ed.)

Publisher

New York: Routledge

Published

1992

Language

EN

ISBN

9781138156937

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Philosophy, Sociology, Gender Studies