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Childhood Gender Nonconformity and the Development of Adult Homosexuality book cover

1st Edition

Childhood Gender Nonconformity and the Development of Adult Homosexuality

Edited By Robin M Mathy, Jack Drescher Copyright 2009
182 Pages
by Routledge

182 Pages
by Routledge

182 Pages
by Routledge
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This book presents leading experts on the scientific study of gender, providing their views on what we know today about the relationship between gender nonconformity in childhood and future adult sexual identities or behaviors. This book explores the topic from a wide range of perspectives, including historical, sociological, psychological (social and developmental), and psychiatric... Read more


  1. Preface  Theo Sandfort


  2. Introduction  Robin M. Mathy and Jack Drescher


  3. Childhood Gender Nonconformity and Adult Homosexuality: A Historical View  Vern Bullough


  4. Childhood Cross-Gender Behavior and Adult Homosexuality: Why the Link?  Richard Green


  5. Reflections on the Relation Between Sex-Typed Behavior in Childhood and Sexual Orientation in Adulthood  Kenneth J. Zucker


  6. Is There a Causal Link Between Childhood Gender Nonconformity and Adult Homosexuality?  Daryl J. Bem


  7. Nosology, Etiology, and Course of Gender Identity Disorder in Children  James I. Martin


  8. Developmental Gender Differentiation: Pathways in Conforming and Nonconforming Outcomes  Lynn S. Liben and Rebecca S. Bigler


  9. Gender Atypicality and Sexual Orientation Development Among Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Youth  Anthony R. D’Augelli, Arnold H. Grossman, and Michael T. Starks


  10. Masculinity, Femininity, and the Development of Sexual Orientation in Women  Letitia Anne Peplau and Mark Huppin

Biography

Robin M. Mathy is a doctoral candidate at Oxford University and works as a psychotherapist and addictions counselor. She is co-author (with Frederick L. Whitam) of Male Homosexuality in Four Societies: Brazil, Guatemala, the Philippines, and the United States, and co-editor (with Shelly Kerr) of Lesbian and Bisexual Women’s Mental Health (Haworth, 2006).



Jack Drescher is a Fellow, Training and Supervising Analyst at the William Alanson White Institute and Adjunct Assistant Professor at New York University Postodoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis.

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