Homosexuality: An Annotated Bibliography

Homosexuality: An Annotated Bibliography (1972) is a bibliography of non-fiction literature on homosexuality, edited by the psychologist Alan P. Bell and the sociologist Martin S. Weinberg. Produced with the help of the American National Institute of Mental Health and written with the aid of summarizing research into homosexuality, it contains 1265 items, with an emphasis on psychology, psychiatry, and sociology. Multiple authors are represented, in some cases under pseudonyms. Together with Homosexualities: A Study of Diversity Among Men and Women (1978), Homosexuality: An Annotated Bibliography is part of a series of books that culminated in the publication of Sexual Preference in 1981. The work was favorably reviewed and is considered important.

Homosexuality: An Annotated Bibliography
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EditorsAlan P. Bell
Martin S. Weinberg
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
SubjectNon-fiction literature on Homosexuality
PublisherHarper & Row
Publication date
March 1972
Media typePrint (Hardcover)
Pages550
ISBN0-06-014541-2
OCLC328809
016.3014157
LC ClassZ7164.S42 W425

Summary

Homosexuality: An Annotated Bibliography is a survey of non-fiction literature pertaining to homosexuality published in English (including translations of foreign-language material) between 1940 and 1968. It contains 1265 items, with an emphasis on psychology, psychiatry, and sociology. It includes books and articles listed as written by the following authors (some of the names given are pseudonyms, but none are indicated as such by Bell and Weinberg):[1]

Background and publication history

In 1967, the Institute for Sex Research proposed to the National Institute of Mental Health that a summary of research into homosexuality should be made. As a result of this proposal, Homosexuality: An Annotated Bibliography was begun in January 1969, made possible through support given to the Institute for Sex Research by the National Institute of Mental Health. Bell and Weinberg hoped to make evident "to the population at large that there is much that we do not know about homosexuality and that homosexuality must be considered from many different vantage points if more is ever to be learned." They commented that the items included in the bibliography were of uneven quality, indicating that "discussions of homosexuality have consisted primarily of speculations prompted by theoretical models or statements whose constructs have not been tested in any systematic manner."[2]

Homosexuality: An Annotated Bibliography was published by Harper & Row in 1972.[3]

Reception

Homosexuality: An Annotated Bibliography received a positive review from the sociologist Edward Sagarin in Contemporary Sociology.[4] The book was also reviewed by Hugo G. Beigel in the Journal of Sex Research.[5] In the Archives of Sexual Behavior, it received a discussion from Bell and a later discussion from Fang-fu Ruan and Yung-mei Tsai.[6][7] In Choice, the book was discussed by M. S. Martin.[8]

Sagarin wrote that Homosexuality: An Annotated Bibliography overshadowed a similar anthology, Homosexuality: A Selective Bibliography of over 3,000 Items, edited by William Parker. He noted that while it contained fewer items, they were all "carefully selected, read and abstracted, and then all the material cross-indexed in a manner that almost defies improvement."[4] Bell, writing in 1975, commented that in his view he and Weinberg had provided a "comprehensive statement" of the past and present state of research into homosexuality in Homosexuality: An Annotated Bibliography.[6] Ruan and Tsai criticized the book for failing to list "a single study or recording on Chinese homosexual life".[7] Martin, writing in 1987, observed that Homosexuality: An Annotated Bibliography had still not been superseded as an annotated bibliography on its topic.[8]

The anthropologist Paul Gebhard described Homosexuality: An Annotated Bibliography as "an important part" of the Institute for Sex Research's work on homosexuality.[9] Bell and Weinberg, writing with sociologist Sue Kiefer Hammersmith, noted that their work Sexual Preference (1981) was the culmination of a series of publications that began with Homosexuality: An Annotated Bibliography and included Homosexualities (1978).[10]

See also
  • Sex Offenders (1965 book)

References
  1. Bell & Weinberg 1972, pp. 1–500.
  2. Bell & Weinberg 1972, pp. ix–xi.
  3. Bell & Weinberg 1972, pp. iii–iv.
  4. Sagarin 1973, p. 3.
  5. Beigel 1972, pp. 252–253.
  6. Bell 1975, p. 421.
  7. Ruan & Tsai 1988, pp. 175-176.
  8. Martin 1987, p. 1674.
  9. Gebhard 1978, p. 10.
  10. Bell, Weinberg & Hammersmith 1981, p. 238.

Bibliography
Books
  • Bell, Alan P.; Weinberg, Martin S. (1972). Homosexuality: An Annotated Bibliography. New York: Harper & Row. ISBN 978-0-06-014541-5.
  • Bell, Alan P.; Weinberg, Martin S.; Hammersmith, Sue Kiefer (1981). Sexual Preference: Its Development in Men and Women. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-16673-9.
  • Gebhard, Paul (1978). "Preface". Homosexualities: A Study of Diversity Among Men and Women. South Melbourne: The Macmillan Company of Australia. ISBN 978-0-333-25180-5.
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