Sexuality and the Homosexual Question

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This paper looks at Kinsey's statement regarding sexuality and gender from a social psychological perspective. In the paper, the author addresses such questions as "What role does sexuality (and gender) play in society?", "How are these categories constructed?", "How are they maintained?", and "What do these categories reveal about important configurations of power in American society?"

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"The fortification of gender roles and restrictions through societal constructs is shown in Woodhouse's discussion of transvestites or cross-dressers. Cross-dressing heterosexual men (dressing in women's clothing) pose a danger to conventional society that presents male and female gender categories as unassailable grouping that have no room for pliability. "On a social and cultural level the two groups (male and female) are equally restricted ..." (Woodhouse, p. 117)."

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