Description
Book SynopsisD., clinical professor of psychiatry, Cornell University Medical College, and author of Becoming Gay: The Journey to Self-Acceptance
Trade ReviewAn often well-researched and warmly presented book. Journal of the American Medical Association Expressly meant for those not in the know on subjects like the historical persecution of gays, the psychology and biology of homosexuality, social issues like 'stigma management,' and even the thorny problems of transsexualism and transvestitism... A valuably balanced study written in clear language. Publishers Weekly Mondimore, a psychiatrist and author of Depression, the Mood Disease, adds this unique and thoughtful study of the growing number of titles on the subject of Homosexuality...what is unique is the author's ability to distill a vast array of data to create cogent, readable prose...Given the current level of discourse in our culture on this issue, Mondimore adds an important and reasonable, voice to the mix, and his work deserves wide readership. Library Journal This book is informative, concise, simple to read, and an excellent resource book. -- Rev. Dale PritchardPh.d Lambda Book Report This book will serve as an excellent introduction for students. The practicing physician can recommend it to patients... Dr. Mondimore has packed an impressive amount of information into 250 pages; the result is the best overall presentation of homosexuality that I have seen. -- Richard Pillard, M.D. The New England Journal of Medicine
Table of ContentsPreface
Acknowledgments
Part I: Sexual Histories
Chapter 1. Before Homosexuality
Chapter 2. Sodomites and Urnings
Chapter 3. Peversion and Inversion
Chapter 4. Women's Voices
Chapter 5. Psychoanalysis
Chapter 6. Surveys and Inkblots
Part II: Sexual Biology
Chapter 7. Sexual Biology I
Chapter 8. Sexual Biology II
Chapter 9. Sexual Genetics
Chapter 10. Nature and Nurture
Part III: Sexual Identities
Chapter 11. Homosexual Identity Development
Chapter 12. Stigma Management
Chapter 13. Bisexual and Transgender Identities
Part IV: Sexual Politics
Chapter 14. From the Inquisition to the Holocaust
Chapter 15. Salvation and Repair
Chapter 16. Community and Power
Summing Up
Notes
Suggested Readings
Index
