Speaking of Sexuality Interdisciplinary Readings

by Davidson, J. Kenneth; Moore, Nelwyn B.; Schwartz, Pepper; DeLamater, John D.

• ISBN13: 9780195330496
• ISBN10: 0195330498
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-08-10
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Speaking of Sexuality features leading works in sexuality research and theory, both contemporary and classic, with a balance of in-depth articles about timely topics from the popular press. This combination of features enables students in their quest to become more savvy consumers of sexuality related materials in the mass media. The framework for this anthology, as in the First Edition, is sexual health--an organizing principle based on two assumptions: (1) sexuality is an inseparable part of an individual's persona; and (2) sexuality spans the life cycle from birth to death. In the Second Edition, editors Davidson and Moore provide an alternative for instructors who prefer a student-friendly, yet rigorous and less sensationalized set of readings. This edition offers 17 new articles. The articles, drawn from both research journals and the popular press, address an array of sexuality issues at the academic and personal levels. New topical coverage includes: * An expose from Judith Levine's controversial book Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Children from Sex , describing the "politics of fear" in the war against AIDS. * "Venus in Furs," a fascinating chapter from Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Natalie Angier's book, Woman: An Intimate Geography , revealing a scientific fantasia of womanhood. * From Pepper Schwartz and Virginia E. Rutter's book The Gender of Sexuality , persuasive arguments calling for an end to polemics that distort the opposing views of gender and sexual desire. * An original treatise exploring philosophies and practices of sexuality education from Terrance D. Olson. * An odyssey of the sexual development that shapes a person's sexual identity, attitudes, and behavior by John D. DeLamater and William N. Friedrich. * A review of theoretical and methodological advancements in sexuality research in the 1990s by F. Scott Christopher and Susan Sprecher.

Table of Contents

New to the Second Edition

Preface

Foreword

Historical, Theoretical, and Research Perspectives on Sexuality

The Stalled Sexual Revolutions of This Century

Alfred Kinsey

Masters and Johnson

Theoretical Backgrounds: The Social Organization of Sexuality

Sex Among the Americans

Kiss and Tell: Surveying Sex in the Twentieth Century

Sexuality in Marriage, Dating, and Other Relationships

Sexuality and the Life Cycle: Childhood and Adolescence

Human Sexual Development

Current Religious Doctrines of Sexual and Erotic Development in Childhood

Early Childhood Exposure to Parental Nudity and Scenes of Parental Sexuality

Negotiation of First Sexual Intercourse Among Latina Adolescent Mothers

Sexuality and the Life Cycle: Young Adulthood

College Virgins: How Men and Women Perceive Their Sexual Status

Communicating With New Sex Partners

Sexual Infidelity Among Married and Cohabiting Americans

Pretending Orgasm During Sexual Intercourse

Sexuality and the Life Cycle: Middle and Later Adulthood

Passionate Marriage

Race, Gender, and Class in Sexual Scripts

The Impact of Aging on Sexual Function in Women and Their Partners

Affection and Sexuality in the Presence of Alzheimer's Disease

Sexual Desire and Gender

In the Garden of Tabloid Delight: Notes on Sex, Americans, Scandal, and Morality

Sexual Desire and Gender

Venus in Furs: Estrogen and Desire

Marital Style and Its Effects on Sexual Desire and Functioning

Sexual Satisfaction and Sexual Drive in Spinal Cord Injured Women

Sexually Transmitted Diseases and Abortion

Having an Abortion Using Mifepristone and Home Misoprostol

Community: Risk, Identity, and Love in the Age of AIDS

Predominant Risk Factors for Genital Papillomavirus Infection

Sexual Orientation

Human Sexual Orientation Has a Heritable Component

Why We Cannot Conclude Sexual Orientation Is a Biological Phenomenon

Do Parents Influence the Sexual Orientation of Their Children?

Dating and Romantic Relationships Among Gay

The War Over Gay Marriage

Sexual Victimization and Compulsion

Sexual Abuse in a National Survey of Adult Men and Women

Token Resistance to Sex: New Perspectives on an Old Stereotype

Tactics of Sexual Coercion

Sexual Aggression Among Asian Americans

Effects of Cybersex Addiction on the Family

Pathways to a Career in Stripping

Sexuality and Society: Law, Economics, Religi

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