Chiefly the rev. papers originally presented at the HWH conference, held at the Free University in Amsterdam, 1987.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introd. A critique and synthesis of biological essentialism and social constructionist views of sexuality and gender / J.P. De Cecco, J.P. Elia -- 2. Biological issues in gender and sexual identity. Essentialism, which essentialism? / Sarah Franklin -- Childhood cross-gender behavior and adult homosexuality / Jay P. Paul -- Reproductive strategies and gender construction / Mildred Dickemann -- The social construction of homosexuals in the nineteenth century : the shift from the sin to the influence of medicine on criminalizing sodomy in Germany / Jörg Hutter -- 3. Politically incorrect identities. The construction of identities as a means of survival : case of gay and lesbian teachers / Peter Dankmeijer -- Gay fathers in straight marriages / Gerd Büntzly -- Homosexuality and marriage / Hans van der Geest -- 4. Fluidity of sexual identity. Can seduction make straight men gay? / Herman Meijer -- The Freudian construction of sexuality : the gay foundations of heterosexuality and straight homophobia / Eric de Kuyper --

5. Gay and lesbian identities in the third world. Mati-ism and Black lesbianism : two idealtypical expressions of female homosexuality in Black communities of the diaspora / Gloria Wekker -- Homosexuality and police terror in Turkey / Arslan Yuzgun -- In Nicaragua : homosexuality without a gay world / Barry D. Adam -- Invertidos sexuales, tortilleras, and maricas machos : the construction of homosexuality in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1900-1950 / Daniel Bao -- 6. Capitalism and the gay identity. Political-economic construction of gay male clone identity / John Lauritsen -- The Mineshaft : a retrospective ethnography / Joel I. Brodsky.

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