If you seduce a straight person, can you make them gay? : issues in biological essentialism versus social constructionism in gay and lesbian identities / John P. De Cecco, John P. Elia, editors.

Chiefly the revised papers originally presented at the HWH conference, held at the Free University in Amsterdam, 1987.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introduction : A critique and synthesis of biological essentialism and social constructionist views of sexuality and gender / J. P. De Cecco, J. P. Elia -- 2. Biological issues in gender and sexual identity. Essentialism, which essentialism? / Sarah Franklin -- Childhood cross-gender behavior and adult homosexuality / Jay P. Paul -- Reproductive strategies and gender construction / Mildred Dickemann -- The social construction of homosexuals in the nineteenth century : the shift from the sin to the influence of medicine on criminalizing sodomy in Germany / Jörg Hutter -- 3. Politically incorrect identities. The construction of identities as a means of survival : case of gay and lesbian teachers / Peter Dankmeijer -- Gay fathers in straight marriages / Gerd Büntzly -- Homosexuality and marriage / Hans van der Geest -- 4. Fluidity of sexual identity. Can seduction make straight men gay? / Herman Meijer -- The Freudian construction of sexuality : the gay foundations of heterosexuality and straight homophobia / Eric de Kuyper -- 5. Gay and lesbian identities in the third world. Mati-ism and Black lesbianism : two idealtypical expressions of female homosexuality in Black communities of the diaspora / Gloria Wekker -- Homosexuality and police terror in Turkey / Arslan Yuzgun -- In Nicaragua : homosexuality without a gay world / Barry D. Adam -- Invertidos sexuales, tortilleras, and maricas machos : the construction of homosexuality in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1900-1950 / Daniel Bao -- 6. Capitalism and the gay identity. Political-economic construction of gay male clone identity / John Lauritsen -- The Mineshaft : a retrospective ethnography / Joel I. Brodsky.