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Title Sexual orientation : toward biological understanding / edited by Lee Ellis and Linda Ebertz ; foreword by Brian A. Gladue
Published Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 1997

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Description xxii, 276 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Contents Foreword / Brian A. Gladue -- 1. Neuroendocrine Foundations of Diverse Sexual Phenotypes in Fish / Matthew S. Grober -- 2. Experimental Alterations of Prenatal Determinants of Sexual Orientation and Sex-Typical Behavior in Nonhuman Mammals / Craig Howard Kinsley, Kelly Gurley Lambert and Hendree Evelyn Jones -- 3. The Role of Prenatal Estrogens in Sexual Orientation / Heino F. L. Meyer-Bahlburg -- 4. Sexual Behavior and Sexual Orientation in Females with Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia / Ralf W. Dittmann -- 5. Perinatal Influences on Behavior and Health, with Special Emphasis on Sexual Orientation and Other Sex-Linked Behavior / Lee Ellis -- 6. Sexual Differentiation of the Brain and Partner Preference in the Male Rat: Behavioral, Neuroanatomical, and Neuroimmunocytochemical Studies / Julie Bakker and A. Koos Slob -- 7. Sexual Orientation in Domestic Rams: Some Biological and Social Correlates / Anne Perkins and James A. Fitzgerald
8. Sexual Differentiation of Human Hypothalamus: Differences According to Sex, Sexual Orientation, and Transsexuality / Dick F. Swaab, Jiang-Ning Zhou and Mariann Fodor [et al.] -- 9. Sexual Orientation of Handedness: A Reanalysis of Recent Data and Research Considerations for Future Inquiry / David W. Holtzen -- 10. Transsexuality and Adextrality: Do They Share a Common Origin? / Anna Herman-Jeglinska, Stanislaw Dulko and Anna Maria Grabowska -- 11. Sex, Sexual Orientation, and Cognition / Diane F. Halpern and Marciana Crothers
Notes "... The First International Behavioral Development Symposium: Biological Basis of Sexual Orientation and Sex-Typical Behavior was held in Minot, N.D. ... [this] book ... [is] based on papers presented at the conference"--Pref
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [199]-247) and indexes
Subject Sexual orientation -- Physiological aspects -- Congresses.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Author Ebertz, Linda.
Ellis, Lee, 1942-
International Behavioral Development Symposium (1st : 1995 : Minot, N.D.)
LC no. 97008864
ISBN 0275956512 (alk. paper)