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Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Sexual behaviour
For the past several years, child advocates, parents, and educators
have expressed concern over the sexualization of girls. Has the
cultural sexual objectification of girls and women increased? Are
younger and younger girls sold a "sexed-up" version of femininity,
and are adult women sold a girlish sexuality?
The Sexualization of Girls and Girlhood: Causes, Consequences, and
Resistance includes the best empirical research, theory, and
practice stemming from the report of the American Psychological
Association's Task Force on the Sexualization of Girls.
Contributors discuss evidence for this phenomenon from media and
marketing, to interpersonal interaction, to girls' own efforts to
fashion themselves after sexualized role models around them. A
variety of consequences of the sexualization of girls and
girlhood--for girls themselves, for others, and for society at
large--are presented. Individual chapters cover topics such as
athletics as a solution and problem for the sexualization of girls,
sexual harassment by peers, gendered violence, body image,
adolescent girls' sexual development, and healthy sexuality for
girls and young women. Importantly, positive alternatives and
suggestions are included so that those who care for girls can
address this troubling cultural trend and help counter the
significant risk to girls' wellbeing that it represents. This
volume is a valuable resource for child advocates, parents, and
educators and useful for undergraduate and graduate courses that
address gender across disciplines such as psychology, sociology,
anthropology, education, communication, media studies, and women's,
and sexuality studies.
A revised and updated edition of Emily Nagoski’s game-changing New York Times bestseller Come As You Are, featuring new information and research on mindfulness, desire, and pleasure that will radically transform your sex life.
For much of the 20th and 21st centuries, women’s sexuality was an uncharted territory in science, studied far less frequently—and far less seriously—than its male counterpart.
That is, until Emily Nagoski’s Come As You Are, which used groundbreaking science and research to prove that the most important factor in creating and sustaining a sex life filled with confidence and joy is not what the parts are or how they’re organized but how you feel about them. In the years since the book’s initial publication, countless women have learned through Nagoski’s accessible and informative guide that things like stress, mood, trust, and body image are not peripheral factors in a woman’s sexual wellbeing; they are central to it—and that even if you don’t always feel like it, you are already sexually whole by just being yourself.
This revised and updated edition continues that mission with new information and advanced research, demystifying and decoding the science of sex so that everyone can create a better sex life and discover more pleasure than you ever thought possible.
Frontotemporal Dementia provides an in-depth look at the history,
various types, genetics, neuropathology and psychosocial aspects of
one of the most common but least understood causes of dementia,
frontotemporal lobar degeneration, from one of the world's leading
centers for the study of dementia. Aided by the latest research in
diagnosis, mechanism and treatment, this book captures the rich and
quickly changing landscape of a devastating neurodegenerative
disease, and offers up-to-date clinical advice for patient care.
Frontotemporal dementia, in particular, raises psychological and
philosophical questions about the nature of self, free will,
emotion, art and behavior - important topics for practitioners and
families to appreciate as they care for the sufferer. This book
includes case studies, photographs and figures from the leaders in
the field and personal communication from the researchers driving
these developments.
In recent years society has witnessed more and more reports of
violence and abuse related to sexual aggression. The increase of
sexually aggressive behavior among adolescent offenders is of
particular concern and consideration.
"Sexual Aggression" explores this phenomenon& mdash;from the
recognition of the development of sexual behavior problems in
childhood to the assessment and treatment of both male and female
adolescent and adult sex offenders. The book is divided into two
sections. The first section presents an overview of the problem of
sexual aggression and the psychological consequences of such acts,
covering important topics such as childhood sexual development and
forms of non-normative behavior within the family. The issue of
sexual harassment of children is examined as well as the short-term
and long-term consequences of sexual abuse and victimization.
Cultural and ethnic influences are explored as they relate to the
response to abuse by the child and family.
The second section assesses and evaluates sexually aggressive
behavior and offers treatment options. Both male and female
offenders are described, as are the determinants of adolescent
sexual aggression. The final chapters address the complex
evaluation of child sex offenders and the therapeutic and
pharmacological strategies for treatment.
A thorough yet accessible approach to the phenomenology and
assessment of sexually aggressive behavior, "Sexual Aggression" is
especially relevant to psychiatrists, psychologists, and social
workers who treat sexually aggressive adolescents and adults&
mdash;as well as the victims of sexual aggression.
Why have we failed so badly to end men’s violence against women?
What can we actually do about it?
This insightful, provocative and practical handbook suggests a bold and
potentially game-changing solution.
Pioneering educator, expert scholar, and activist Jackson Katz has
spent the last 30 years educating people around the world on men's
violence against women, and advocates that although not all men are
part of the problem, every man can -- and should -- be part of the
solution.
In this galvanizing book, Jackson reveals indispensable everyday tools
that will help men from all walks of life become part of the solution
to gender-based violence. Find out how to respond when a friend or
colleague makes a misogynistic comment; learn how to intervene in
incidents that may seem small but can lead to violence; and discover
how you can become a role model for boys and men who need positive
leadership in their lives.
This is the essential reading for every man who wants help build a
healthier and safer society.
Today, women everywhere clamor for the latest erotic bestselling
novels--their scenes of daring sexual exploits have fired up our
collective imagination. But before we turned to fiction for our
turn-ons, Nancy Friday unleashed a sexual revolution with her
collections of uninhibited writings--the "real "fantasies of "real
"women, in books that broke "all "the rules. . . .
FORBIDDEN FLOWERS
After "My Secret Garden," Nancy Friday's first boundary-shattering
collection, rocked America and freed women to put their most
private longings and secret desires into words for all to read,
hundreds more were inspired to do just that: From the seeds sown in
"My Secret Garden "grew "Forbidden Flowers," an even more explicit
and colorful gathering of daring imaginings, uninhibited dreamings,
and real-life experimental encounters experienced by women just
like you. More fun than fiction, more supremely sexy than you ever
imagined, here are the kinds of fantasies that dare you to cross a
line and pluck some forbidden flowers of your very own.
The wildly funny, occasionally heartbreaking internationally bestselling memoir about growing up, growing older, and learning to navigate friendships, jobs, loss, and love along the ride
When it comes to the trials and triumphs of becoming an adult, journalist and former Sunday Times columnist Dolly Alderton has seen and tried it all. In her memoir, she vividly recounts falling in love, finding a job, getting drunk, getting dumped, realizing that Ivan from the corner shop might just be the only reliable man in her life, and that absolutely no one can ever compare to her best girlfriends. Everything I Know About Love is about bad dates, good friends and—above all else— realizing that you are enough.
Glittering with wit and insight, heart and humor, Dolly Alderton’s unforgettable debut weaves together personal stories, satirical observations, a series of lists, recipes, and other vignettes that will strike a chord of recognition with women of every age—making you want to pick up the phone and tell your best friends all about it. Like Bridget Jones’ Diary but all true, Everything I Know About Love is about the struggles of early adulthood in all its terrifying and hopeful uncertainty.
A nonfiction investigation into masculinity, For The Love of Men provides actionable steps for how to be a man in the modern world, while also exploring how being a man in the world has evolved.
In 2019, traditional masculinity is both rewarded and sanctioned. Men grow up being told that boys don’t cry and dolls are for girls (a newer phenomenon than you might realize―gendered toys came back in vogue as recently as the 80s). They learn they must hide their feelings and anxieties, that their masculinity must constantly be proven. They must be the breadwinners, they must be the romantic pursuers. This hasn’t been good for the culture at large: 99% of school shooters are male; men in fraternities are 300% (!) more likely to commit rape; a woman serving in uniform has a higher likelihood of being assaulted by a fellow soldier than to be killed by enemy fire.
In For the Love of Men, Liz offers a smart, insightful, and deeply-researched guide for what we're all going to do about toxic masculinity. For both women looking to guide the men in their lives and men who want to do better and just don’t know how, For the Love of Men will lead the conversation on men's issues in a society where so much is changing, but gender roles have remained strangely stagnant.
What are we going to do about men? Liz Plank has the answer. And it has the possibility to change the world for men and women alike.
Human sexuality touches us all, pun intended. We all either enjoy
it, struggle with it, or may have been victims of it. Sexuality is
not just about sex, but about human sexual function, the physiology
of sex, the hormones involved and how they affect us, and the
cultural norms related to it. Sexual function and dysfunction are
closely tied to one's self-esteem, self-respect, and to
relationships with intimate partners. Human Sexuality: Function,
Dysfunction, Paraphilias, and Relationships, explores the interplay
of intimacy and sexuality; how it can enhance relationships, and
how it can negatively affect them, or be affected by them. When
individuals or partners encounter sexual problems or dysfunctions
it can have a long-lasting affect both biologically and
psychologically. Dr. Rokach explores the causes and the reasons
that these dysfunctions are maintained, and successful treatment
methods. Chapters on sexual offenses and paraphilias and what
treatment options are available to sexual offenders are also
included. This book is the first book to place sexuality where it
belongs, within the context of relationships demonstrating how
sexuality relates to intimacy by both enhancing and negatively
affecting it.
In this special issue, contributors trace how sexual scientific
thought circulated throughout the late nineteenth and twentieth
centuries and how that thought continues to shape sexuality. The
authors situate the science of sex within a broader context of
sexuality studies, which examines the social, psychological, and
political aspects of desires, acts, identities, and sexology.
Articles-addressing topics such as early gender clinics and
transsexual etiology, the taxonomy of queer identities, and
blackness and sexology-examine the current and historical ways in
which racial science and colonial knowledge constitute sexual
science as an amorphous object, one with a problematically vast
reach that buttresses racial hierarchy and undergirds colonial
infrastructures. The authors urge readers to explore how the
taxonomies of sexual science structure identitarian frameworks of
gender and sexuality. Contributors: Kadji Amin, Howard Chiang,
Stephanie D. Clare, Emmett Harsin Drager, Patrick R. Grzanka,
Benjamin Kahan, Greta LaFleur, Rovel Sequeira, Aaron J. Stone,
Zohar Weiman-Kelman, Joanna Wuest
Capitalist ideology wants us to believe that there is an optimal
way to live. 'Making connections' means networking for work. Our
emotional needs are to be fulfilled by a single romantic partner,
and self-care equates to taking personal responsibility for our
suffering. We must be productive and heterosexual, we must have
babies and buy a house. But the kicker is most people cannot and do
not want to achieve these goals. Instead we are left feeling
atomised, exhausted and disempowered. Radical Intimacy shows that
it doesn't need to be this way. Including inspiring ideas for
alternative ways to live, Sophie K Rosa demands we use our radical
imagination to discover a new form of intimacy. Including critiques
of the 'wellness' industry that ignores rising poverty rates, the
mental health crisis and racist and misogynist state violence;
transcending love and sex under capitalism to move towards
feminist, decolonial and queer thinking; asking whether we should
abolish the family; interrogating the framing of ageing and death
and much more, Radical Intimacy is the compassionate antidote to a
callous society. Now as an audiobook, to listen to on the go.
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