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Publishers Weekly is an American media organization.
The Man Who Would Be Queen (2003)
On April 1, 2003, Publishers Weekly ran the following review of the transphobic book The Man Who Would Be Queen by J. Michael Bailey. Baileyâs publisher Joseph Henry Press has been using an excerpt of this review in its publicity, including an ad that ran in The Advocate. The bold part is the selective quotation they use, wisely avoiding the critical part after.
An associate professor of psychology at Northwestern University, Bailey writes with assuredness that often makes difficult, abstract material-the relationship between sexual orientation and gender affect, the origins of homosexuality and the theoretical basis of how we discuss sexuality-comprehensible. He also, especially in his portraits of the women and men he writes about, displays a deep empathy that is frequently missing from scientific studies of sexuality. But Baileyâs scope is so broad that when he gets down to pivotal constructs, as in detailing the data of scientific studies such as Richard Greenâs about âfeminine boysâ or Dean Hamerâs work on the so-called âgay gene,â the material is vague, and not cohesive. Bailey tends towards overreaching, unsupported generalizations, such his claim that âregardless of marital laws there will always be fewer gay men who are romantically attachedâ or that the African-American community is âa relatively anti-gay ethnic minority.â Add to this the debatable supposition that innate âmasculineâ and âfeminineâ traits, in the most general sense of the words, decidedly exist, and his account as a whole loses force.
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