Sex and Gender: A Theological and Scientific Inquiry (1983)
Edited by Mark F. Schwartz, Albert S. Moraczewski, and James A Monteleone. Addresses the considerable confusion regarding sexuality among humans. Homosexuals are seeking recognition of their way of sexual life as just an optional way of expressing and exercising human sexuality. Not a few individuals are uncertain in today’s society as to what it means to be a man or a woman, as if these categories were purely a matter of social convention. Those afflicted with a condition termed “gender dysphoria” perceive themselves as women although they recognize that anatomically they are male, or vice versa. In all these situations there is some doubt about the relationship of gender and sex. Gender in this context refers primarily to the psychological dimension, the perception of one’s self as being a man or woman. Sex is more an anatomical term, and describes the individual as physiologically male or female. This book does not provide a definitive statement. Rather, it is a record of one exchange in an ongoing dialogue between the scientific and theological communities in the complex and emotionally charged topic of human sexuality.
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