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John Gagnon

An Interpretation of Desire

Essays in the Study of Sexuality

With a foreword by Jeffrey Escoffier
336 pages, 3 line drawings  6 x 9  © 2004
Series: Worlds of Desire: The Chicago Series on Sexuality, Gender, and Culture

Cloth $70.00

ISBN: 9780226278582   Published January 2004

Paper $25.00

ISBN: 9780226278605   Published January 2004

Preface
Foreword, by Jeffrey Escoffier
Prologue
An Unlikely Story (1990)
Part One: Scripts, Conduct, and Science
Sex Research and Social Change (1975)
Scripts and the Coordination of Sexual Conduct (1974)
Reconsiderations: The Kinsey Reports (1978)
Science and the Politics of Pathology (1987)
Gender Preference in Erotic Relations: The Kinsey Scale and Sexual Scripts (1990)
The Explicit and Implicit Use of the Scripting Perspective in Sex Research (1991)
Part Two: The Quest for Desire
Disease and Desire (1989)
Theorizing Risky Sex (2000)
Epidemics and Researchers: AIDS and the Practice of Social Studies 1992)
Captain Cook and the Penetration of the Pacific (1997)
Who Was That Girl? (2000)
Epilogue
Sexual Conduct Revisited (1998)
References
Index
Subjects



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