Queer Questions, Clear Answers: The Contemporary Debates on Sexual Orientation

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This provocative book examines the important issues in contemporary debates on sexual orientationfrom our various religious beliefs to our stereotypes about homosexuals, from questions about the origin of sexual orientation to the lessons we can learn from history. Queer Questions, Clear Answers: The Contemporary Debates on Sexual Orientation offers an eye-opening conversation about questions, factsand fearsrelative to sexual orientation. The book is framed around a series of nine sets of "queer questions," including, Who is queer and who is not How do we interpret and use sacred scriptures to control behavior and set public policy What lessons can we learn from history and psychology and What is the homosexual agenda The author, himself a gay man and prominent academic, combines cross-disciplinary research and personal anecdotes in his intriguing search for answers to questions that are central to ongoing cultural and political debates. In discussing each set of questions, he examines perspectives and arguments from across the political spectrum. The clear, articulate, and wholly candid answers he offers will help readers get beyond the headlinesand the sound bitesto better understand many important arguments about homosexuality and human rights.

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This is a well-researched, superlatively written summary of the current state of knowledge about sexual orientation. Summing Up: Essential. All levels/libraries. * Choice *

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Thomas S. Serwatka, PhD, is vice president and chief-of-staff at the University of North Florida, Jacksonville, FL, where he has held positions as associate vice president for academic affairs and dean of the graduate school.