The Story of Sexual Identity: Narrative Perspectives on the Gay and Lesbian Life Course

by Bertram J. Cohler and Phillip L. Hammack

This book assembles a diverse group of scholars working within a new, pathbreaking paradigm of sexual science, fusing perspectives from history, sociology, and psychology. The contributors are united in their commitment to the idea of "narrative" as central to the study of sexual identity, offering an analytic approach to social science inquiry on sexual identity that restores the voices of sexual subjects. The result is a rich examination of lives...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195326784
• ISBN13: 9780195326789
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.3"