Table of Contents
Title Page
Snow
Introduction
Part 1 - A Polysexual, Polygendered World
Chapter1 - The Birds and the Bees
The Many Forms of Animal Homosexuality
What’s Good for the Goose … : Comparisons of Male and Female Homosexuality
A Hundred and One Lesbian Acts: Calculating the Frequency of Homosexual Behavior
Within Genders, Without Genders, Across Genders
Chapter2 - Humanistic Animals, Animalistic Humans
From Pederasty to Butch-Femme: Uniquely Human?
Primate (Homo)Sexuality and the Origins of Culture
Unnatural Nature
Chapter3 - Two Hundred Years of Looking at Homosexual Wildlife
A Brief History of the Study of Animal Homosexuality
“A Lowering of Moral Standards Among Butterflies”: Homophobia in Zoology
Anything but Sex
Chapter4 - Explaining (Away) Animal Homosexuality
“Which One Plays the Female Role?”—Homosexuality as Pseudoheterosexuality
“The Lengths to Which Deprived Creatures Will Go”—Homosexuality as Substitute Heterosexuality
“The Errors of Their Ways”—Homosexuality as Mistaken Sex Identification
“Gross Abnormalities of Behavior”—Homosexuality as Pathology
Chapter5 - Not for Breeding Only: Reproduction on the Periphery of Life
The Evolutionary “Value” of Homosexuality
Homosexuality in the Service of Heterosexuality
Nonreproductive and Alternative Heterosexualities in Animals
Chapter 6 - A New Paradigm: Biological Exuberance
Left-Handed Bears and Androgynous Cassowaries: Informing Biology with Indigenous Knowledge
A Revolution Under Way: Contemporary Scientific and Philosophical Perspectives - We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals … . They are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendor and travail of the earth.
Returning to the Source: Indigenous Cosmologies and Fractal Sexualities
The Magnificent Overabundance of Reality
Part II - A Wondrous Bestiary Portraits of Homosexual, Bisexual, and Transgendered Wildlife
Introduction
Mammals
Primates
Marine Mammals
Hoofed Mammals
Other Mammals
Birds
Waterfowl and Other Aquatic Birds
Shore Birds
Perching Birds and Songbirds
Other Birds
Acknowledgments
STONEWALL INN EDITIONS KEITH KAHLA, GENERAL EDITOR
Praise
Appendix: Other Species
Notes to Part I
Credits and Permissions
Animal Index
Subject Index
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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