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MALENESS AND FEMALENESS : Feminine men and masculine women -- Determinism : biological and social -- Male and female hormones -- Sexing the brain -- Four unusual human syndromes -- Maleness and femaleness are separate qualities -- Brainsex test -- Sex is not just for reproduction -- Sexual orientation quiz -- Five facets of sexuality -- SEXING THE BRAIN -- Adam and Eve revisited -- Brains are not sexually neutral -- Structural and functional differences between male and female brains -- Right brain / left brain : sex differences -- Sex differences in cognitive abilities -- Sex differences in communication and relationship -- Sex differences in behaviour -- The role of testosterone -- Peculiar physical differences between the sexes -- Sex differences in health outcomes -- Sex differences in mate selection -- MULTIPLE SEXUALITIES : THE MAJORS -- Heterosexuals -- Erotic attraction, not behaviour -- So what do heterosexuals do? -- Swingers -- Transvetites -- Paraphiliacs -- Homosexuals -- Homosexuality is worldwide -- How many homosexuals are there? -- Different types of homosexuality -- Are gay men oversexed? -- Drag queens and female inpersonators -- Do families "cause" homosexuality? -- Gay and lesbian parents -- What keeps homosexuality in the human gene pool? -- Lesbians -- Four sexes instead of two? -- MULTIPLE SEXUALITIES : THE MINORS -- Bisexuals --- A bisexual woman's story -- Are bisexuals more highly sexed? -- Bisexual men versus women -- Bisexual politics -- Transexuals -- How Catherine became David -- Making a woman out of a man, and vice versa -- Treatment outcomes -- Intersexuals -- How Danny became Danielle -- The "John/Joan" case -- Sexual identity is inborn -- changing doctors' attitudes -- DIFFERENT BRAINS FOR DIFFERENT SEXUALITIES -- Gay brains and straight brains -- Behavioural differences between gays and straights -- Differences in cognitive abilities -- What about barin differences within groups? -- BIOLOGY AND SEXUAL ORIENTATION -- Is biology destiny? -- The gene theory of sexual orientation -- Homosexuality in families -- The maternal immune hypothesis -- The neuroendocrine theory of sexual orientation -- Does prenatal stress affect sexual orientation? -- Developmental instability -- Bias, not predestination -- NATURE AND NURTURE : THE DANCE GOES ON -- Is sexual orientation "constructed"? -- The interactionist view -- Interactions among genes, hormones and environment -- Which environment? -- Two indirect models of sexual orientation -- The dance goes on -- IF IT'S NORMAL, WHY ALL THE FUSS? -- Intolerance : private and public -- The myth of "majority means normal" -- The myth that homosexuals are sick; the myth that homosexuality is just a preference -- Stereotypes -- "Curing" homosexuality -- Religious opposition -- Are gay-bashers secretly gay? -- The winds of change -- Legal rights for sexual minorities in the U.S. -- Legal rights for sexual minorities in Canada -- Legal rights for sexual minorities elsewhere -- Familiarity breeds tolerance. |
