Gay Children Grown Up: Gender Culture and Gender DeviancePraeger, 1982 - 270 pages Describes how many gay men were loners, alienated from their childhood and adolescent peers, and averse to male gender culture during that period of their lives. Out of that early differentness they devised varying solutions to their problems of alienation, some of which proved highly useful during adulthood for educational and occupational advancement ... Through being alienated from conventional male culture they were freed to devise or invent modified gender roles which contain varying mixtures of masculine and feminine culture and which were closer to their individual needs ... There are many and large differences between gay and non-gay men and these difference are seen largely in the area of culture rather than psychology.--From Pref. |
Contents
THE COMPONENTS OF GENDER | 1 |
2 | 28 |
THE PSYCHOLOGIES OF EFFEMINACY | 74 |
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adolescent guilt Adolescent Interest Adult Cross ADULT CROSS-GENDERING Partial adulthood age differences appears Associations Effect df Associations Marginal 0-Order behaviors Chi-squared p LR Chicago respondents childhood and adult Childhood Cross childhood cross-gendering Compiled cross-dressing cross-gender role preference CROSS-GENDERING Partial 1st defeminization process defeminization status deviant df LR Chi-squared dominance Effect df LR effeminacy effeminate boys erotic females feminine gender role gay and non-gay gay students gay youths gender culture gender identity gender-role preference heterosexual males High LOW homosexual hypothesis infantile amnesia interaction interest in girls interest in sports Likelihood Ratio Analysis Loner by Defeminization LOW High LOW Low masculinity measure mid-life crisis non-gay students Partial 1st Order percent percentages persistent actorization persistently effeminate present property offenses relationship Saghir and Robins Sample Group seems self-esteem sexual orientation sexual partners sissy social Source Table three gay groups transexuals variables versus violent offenses youthful loner zero-order