Homosexuality and Sexuality, Vol. 1 Book

The interviews and conversations of Homosexuality and Sexuality: Dialogues of the Sexual Revolution survey a broad cross-section of the academic and scholarly opinions that have shaped contemporary thinking about homosexuality and sexuality. They also document some of the important changes that have taken place in the study of homosexuality and sexuality in our time. This readable book enables readers to go back in time and directly experience the controversies that surrounded the publication of such landmark, representative, or notorious studies as Masters and Johnson's Homosexuality in Perspective, Judd Marmor's Homosexual Behaviors, Charles Socarides's Homosexuality, the third edition of the Diagnostic and Statistic Manual of Mental Disorders of the American Psychiatric Association, John Money's Love and Love Sickness, Thomas Szasz's Sex By Prescription, or Richard Green's The “Sissy Boy Syndrome.” This major new volume will be widely read in the gay community—by academicians, scholars, and historians of the gay liberation movement, the AIDS epidemic, and the sexual revolutions of our time. The volume will also be of interest to psychiatrists, psychologists, sociologists, sex researchers, historians, or anyone who treats, counsels, studies, or simply wishes to know more about gay men and lesbians and their experiences.

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A valuable collection of interviews and conversations conducted by Mass since 1979 with prominent psychiatrists, psychologists, sex researchers, educators, AIDS experts, and historians. From Thomas Szasz: [Narcissism is] the mental illness that afflicts patients who love themselves too much. . . and their analysts too little." Paper edition (unseen), $14.95. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)