Further reading

Week 1

Michael Foucault, History of Human Sexuality, Volume I: Introduction (New York: Vantage, 1978, 1980), pp. 1-14, Chapter 2 (pp. 36-49) [Chapter 2 in Stein, Forms of Desire.]

E. Stein (ed.), Forms of Desire: Sexual Orientation and the Social Constructivist Controversy (Routledge, 1992) Chapters 1, 3 (Edward Stein and Mary MacIntosh)

Philip Sherman (ed.), Uncommon Heroes (Boston: Alyson, )

Duberman, Chauncey, et al Hidden From History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past (1989), pp. 17-64 [Essays setting out the social-constructivist/essentialist debate.]

David Greenberg, Construction of Homosexuality (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988) [Contains the ultimate bibliography on social constructivism in gay studies.]

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