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50 Great Myths of Human Sexuality
50 Great Myths of Human Sexuality seeks to dispel commonly accepted myths and misunderstandings surrounding human sexuality, providing an enlightening, fascinating and challenging book that covers the fifty areas the author's believe individuals must understand to have a safe, pleasurable and healthy sex life. Dispels/Explores commonly accepted myths and misunderstandings surrounding human sexuality. Includes comparisons to other countries and cultures exploring different beliefs and how societies can influence perceptions. Areas discussed include: pre-marital sex, masturbation, sexual diseases, fantasy, pornography, relationships, contraception, and emotions such as jealousy, body image insecurity, passionate love and sexual aggression. Covers both heterosexual and same-sex relationships.
Gender Roles in American Life [2 Volumes]
This two-volume set examines how the evolution of gender roles in the United States has changed family dynamics, business practices, and our concepts of womanhood and manhood as well as affected debates about equality, political and military service, and childrearing roles and practices. Addresses an important, high-interest topic for students as well as general audiences: how and why gender roles have evolved dramatically in American culture; Presents essential and illuminating primary documents from multiple perspectives--male and female, conservative and progressive, historical and current; Includes original headnotes and essays that provide essential context for a more complete understanding of documents and events.
Handbook on Sexuality: Perspectives, Issues and role in Society
Sexuality can be defined as a process of integrating emotional, somatic, and intellectual and social aspects in ways that enhance one's own self. It incorporates intimacy, romance, sensuality, eroticism and relationships, and is an important contributing factor to an individual's quality of life and sense of well-being. In this book, the authors explore perspectives, issues and the role in society of sexuality. Topics discussed in this compilation include the functional measurement to cognitive mechanisms underlying attitudes toward sexuality and intellectual disability; the impact of rheumatic disease on sexual function; adolescent sexual behavior; queer sexuality and online pedagogy; sexual upbringing and sexual satisfaction; and sexuality and ageing within correctional facilities.
The International Encyclopedia of Human Sexuality
This Encyclopedia is a comprehensive A-Z reference with over 500 entries that define sexuality from a broad biocultural perspective and show the diversity of human sexual behavior and belief systems. Contains entries ranging from short definitions of scientific, clinical, cultural, and colloquial terms to extended explorations of major concepts; Covers 13 key areas of content, from clinical medicine and body modification to the language of sexuality and the history of sexology; Serves as an essential resource for students, scholars, and researchers with contributions from an international team of top scholars and practitioners.
Multicultural Gender Roles: Counseling and Psychotherapy Techniques
Practical applications for mental health professionals and educators in helping clients and students understand and construct their roles within their schools, families, and communities. Edited by Dr. Marie Miville'a recognized authority on multicultural issues in counseling and psychology. Multicultural Gender Roles provides mental health professionals, educators, and students entering these fields with a solid research grounding on how people of color can reframe their gender roles in today's world. Featuring personal experiences and stories based on interviews with over sixty individuals from various racial-ethnic backgrounds, Multicultural Gender Roles explores: Gender role construction among men and women of color; Latino and Latina gender roles; Gender roles among Asian/Asian American men and women; Gender roles among African American men and women and negotiating multicultural gender roles. Utilizing current theory and new research, Multicultural Gender Roles provides practical applications for mental health professionals and educators working with diverse populations.
The Psych 101 Series: Psychology of Love 101
This incisive text provides a comprehensive tour of both classic and contemporary theories and research on the how and why of human love. In addition to presenting the major biological, social, and cultural theories that have been developed on this topic, the book looks at what research has shown us about such essential issues as basic attraction, the life course of relationships, how personality and environment affect love, and how therapeutic interventions can sometimes improve relationships.
When Women Sexually Abuse Men
Revealing the shocking and detailed accounts of how adult women stalk, sexually assault, and even rape adult men, this book portrays an eye-opening reality: women can act as aggressive predators and victimize men. Details the rape trials of two women as well as other personal accounts and interviews; Utilizes careful analysis of research to determine the extent of this crime by adult women against adult men; Addresses a range of actions in which adult women sexually abuse or assault adult men, and offers advice and counsel to these victims; Provides surprising information that will be of value to law enforcement and corrections practitioners, social workers, business administrators, human resources personnel, academics in the fields of sociology, psychology, gender issues, and criminology, as well as general readers.