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Joseph Henry Press cites Kirkus Reviews Joseph Henry Press is citing this on their web promotions for The Man Who Would Be Queen:
Stephen Mautner also cited it in his open letter:
Below is the full text with excerpts from above in blue. January 15, 2003 A researcher into the genetics of homosexuality presents fascinating
revelations about feminine boys, gay men, and transsexuals, combining
the most recent scholarship on sexual behaviors and preferences with up-close
and personal profiles. Bailey (Psychology/Northwestern Univ.) makes some controversial
findings in his exploration of stereotypes about femininity and homosexuality.
Among the traits he has studied are speech and body language, interest in casual
sex, and the importance placed on youth and physical attractiveness in a partner.
In a personable and straightforward manner, he describes his research techniques
and reproduces the questionnaires given to his subjects. He concludes
that gay men have a mixture of male-typical and female-typical characteristics,
suggesting that the reason may very well be that their brains are mosaics of
male and female parts. Feminine boys, he further asserts, usually do grow up
to become gay men, and a small minority of them even become transsexuals. The
first section opens with a sympathetic profile of a boy whose mother came to
Bailey with questions about raising her very feminine son that lead smoothly
into a discussion of the research that has been done on such boys. Next, Bailey
focuses on the scientific research on gay men; cross-cultural studies and accounts
of homosexual practices in ancient Greece and renaissance Florence are particularly
eye-opening. As yet unanswered, Bailey notes, are questions about the existence
of homosexual genes and the reason for the persistence of homosexuality in human
evolution. Finally, the author explores transsexualism, defined simply as "the
desire to become a member of the opposite sex." Nonjudgmental profiles
illustrate what Bailey distinguishes as the two basic types of male transsexuals:
extremely feminine gay men, and autogynephiles, "men erotically obsessed
with the image of themselves as a woman." The concluding chapter details
the process and costs of medical transitioning from male to female.
Despite its provocative title, a scientific yet superbly compassionate exposition.
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