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Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Sexual behaviour
This collection is the first to be devoted entirely to medieval
sexuality informed by current theories of sexuality and gender. It
brings together essays from various disciplinary perspectives to
consider how the Middle Ages defined, regulated, and represented
sexual practices and desires.
Always considering sexuality in relation to gender, the gender,
the body, and indentity, the essays explore medieval sexuality as a
historical construction produced by and embedded in the cultures
and institutions of that period. Topics include the medieval
understanding of sodomy, the historical construction of
heterosexuality, and the intersections of sexuality with race,
gender, and religion.
How does sexual behavior change over one's life-span? How does
sexual satisfaction affect the quality and stability of marriage?
How has the AIDS epidemic affected sexual attitudes in America over
the past three decades?
In this wide-reaching volume, distinguished sociologist Alice S.
Rossi addresses these questions and others through fourteen diverse
essays on sexual behavior, covering adolescence through old age and
studying such groups as singles, married couples, and homosexuals.
This extensive study also explores the effects of chronic disease
and medication on sexual functioning, recent developments in
psychotherapy for sexual problems, and sexual abuse of children,
incest, and rape.
"The interdisciplinary nature of the project has resulted in a text
that is accessible to anyone with a behavioral science background.
Well written, well edited, and well received by this
reviewer."--Joan C. Chrisler, "Journal of Sex & Marital
Therapy"
"This is a book that needs to be on the bookshelf of any AIDS
researcher."--"AIDS Book Review Journal"
This study argues that modern fiction, from Kate Chopin and
Virginia Woolf to William Faulkner and Doris Lessing, surges with
libidinal currents. The most powerful of these fictions are not
merely about sex; rather, they attempt to incorporate the workings
of eros into their narrative forms. In doing so, these modern
fictions of sexuality create a politics and poetics of the perverse
with the power to transform how we think about and read modernism.
Challenging overarching theories of the novel by mapping the
historical contexts that have influenced modern experimental
narratives, Joseph Allen Boone constructs a model for interpreting
sexuality that reaches from Freud's theory of the libidinal
instincts to Foucault's theory of sexual discourse. A study of the
links between literary modernity and the psychology of sex, this
text is a survey of modernist fiction, gay studies/queer theory,
feminist criticism, and studies in sexuality and gender.
Psychological approaches to sexual health have arisen independently
in a variety of different contexts. Psychology of Sexual Health is
the first book to draw together the knowledge base and expertise of
clinicians and researchers from all disciplines in the
psychological management of sexual health. The authors have
presented advances in theory and practice in a practical way that
will be accessible for all disciplines.
There have been rapid developments in the psychological
management of sexually transmitted diseases, particularly HIV and
AIDS. A significant proportion of those attending genitourinary
clinics do not have a disease or infection, but rather are seeking
help with sexual health issues relating to behaviour, prior sexual
experiences and relationships. Sexual health problems are being
increasingly raised by patients across many other health
specialties. Hence an increasing number of practitioners are
needing to understand the psychological issues underlying sexual
health.
With contributions from experts around the world, this book
addresses a wide range of issues including sexually transmitted
diseases, sexual abuse, rape, abortion and genetic counselling.
This is the only book that systematically examines transgender sex
work in the United States and globally. Bringing together
perspectives from a rich range of disciplines and experiences, it
is an invaluable resource on issues related to commercial sex in
the transgender community and in the lives of trans sex workers,
including mental health, substance use, relationship dynamics,
encounters with the criminal justice system, and opportunities and
challenges in the realm of public health. The volume covers trans
sex workers' interactions with health, social service, and
mental-health agencies, featuring more than forty contributors from
across the globe. Synthesizing introductions by the editor help
organize and put into context a vast and scattered research and
empirical literature. The book is essential for researchers, health
practitioners, and policy analysts in the areas of sex-work
research, HIV/AIDS, and LGBTQ/gender studies.
Sex, for the entirety of human history, has never been about
reproduction. Statistically speaking, only one out of every one
thousand sexual acts between a man and a woman will result in a
pregnancy. And, as we know, sex does not solely take place just
between men and women. So: what is sex for? In this wide-ranging
and powerful new history of sex, Dr Fern Riddell will uncover the
sexual lives of our ancestors and show that, just like us, they
were as preoccupied with sexual identities, masturbation, foreplay,
sex and deviance; facing it with the same confusion, joy and
accidental hilarity that we do today. By looking at how history has
dealt with different parts of our sexual experience, we're taken on
an illuminating and entertaining journey about why we have sex -
and what that means today.
Reproduction is a fundamental feature of life, it is the way life
persists across the ages. This book offers new, wider vistas on
this fundamental biological phenomenon, exploring how it works
through the whole tree of life. It explores facets such as asexual
reproduction, parthenogenesis, sex determination and reproductive
investment, with a taxonomic coverage extended over all the main
groups - animals, plants including 'algae', fungi, protists and
bacteria. It collates into one volume perspectives from varied
disciplines - including zoology, botany, microbiology, genetics,
cell biology, developmental biology, evolutionary biology, animal
and plant physiology, and ethology - integrating information into a
common language. Crucially, the book aims to identify the
commonalties among reproductive phenomena, while demonstrating the
diversity even amongst closely related taxa. Its integrated
approach makes this a valuable reference book for students and
researchers, as well as an effective entry point for deeper study
on specific topics.
"Good fish get dull but sex is always fun." So say the Mehinaku
people of Brazil. But Thomas Gregor shows that sex brings a supreme
ambiguity to the villagers' lives. In their elaborate
rituals--especially those practiced by the men in their secret
societies--the Mehinaku give expression to a system of symbols
reminiscent of psychosexual neuroses identified by Freud:
castration anxiety, Oedipal conflict, fantasies of loss of strength
through sex, and a host of others. "If we look carefully," writes
Gregor, "we will see reflections of our own sexual nature in the
life ways of an Amazonian people." The book is illustrated with
Mehinaku drawings of ritual texts and myths, as well as with
photographs of the villagers taking part in both everyday and
ceremonial activities.
The concept of sex addiction took hold in the 1980s as a product of
cultural anxiety. Yet, despite being essentially mythical, sex
addiction has to be taken seriously as a phenomenon. Its success as
a purported malady lay with its medicalization, both as a self-help
movement in terms of self-diagnosis, and as a rapidly growing
industry of therapists treating the new disease. The media played a
role in its history, first with TV, the tabloids and the case
histories of claimed celebrity victims all helping to popularize
the concept, and then with the impact of the Internet. This book is
a critical history of an archetypically modern sexual syndrome.
Reay, Attwood and Gooder argue that this strange history of social
opportunism, diagnostic amorphism, therapeutic self-interest and
popular cultural endorsement is marked by an essential social
conservatism: sex addiction has become a convenient term to
describe disapproved sex. It is a label without explanatory force.
This book will be essential reading for those interested in
sexuality studies, contemporary history, psychology, psychiatry,
sociology, media studies and studies of the Internet. It will also
be of interest to doctors and therapists currently working in this
and related fields.
What exactly is love? How many different kinds of love are there?
Have the metaphors for love changed much over the centuries? What
are the best classical love stories? Is love universal? In this
fascinating and lovely little book, packed with rare and beautiful
pictures, Jason Martineau takes us on a journey through the
landscape of love, combining ideas from both ancient and modern
sources to explore life's most prominent and provocative theme.
WOODEN BOOKS are small but packed with information. "Fascinating"
FINANCIAL TIMES. "Beautiful" LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS. "Rich and
Artful" THE LANCET. "Genuinely mind-expanding" FORTEAN TIMES.
"Excellent" NEW SCIENTIST. "Stunning" NEW YORK TIMES. Small books,
big ideas.
The psychiatric view of homosexuality has undergone a fascinating
evo lution in recent years. This includes not only the change from
viewing homosexuality as a diagnosable illness, as opposed to an
alternative life style, but also the development of considerable
professional concern for providing appropriate mental health
services to this previously under served minority community. There
has been an increasing recognition of the need for comprehensive
services including, but not limited to, counseling, individual
psychotherapy, and couples therapy. This book is written for the
practicing clinician, and offers a compre hensive survey of the
important clinical issues involved in the counsel ing and
psychotherapy of gay men and lesbian women. It is an extraor
dinarily practical book and its breadth and depth make it
appropriate for both the novice and the experienced therapist.
SHERWYN M. WOODS Series Editor ix Preface We hear our mentors but
do not often heed them. Freud's supportive, nonjudgmental approach
to homosexuality provided an ambience with in which discoveries
could be made, that is, the discovery that homosex uality was not a
disease of mental degeneration and that sexuality, in the sense of
a fundamental human propensity to find pleasure in social and
physical attachments, was at its root directed to both sexes. The
ad herence to a nonjudgmental approach was short-lived, suffered
repres sion by homophobic defenses, and scientific zeal was
directed toward "cure" rather than comprehension of the homosexual
state."
In the award-winning Just Sex? The Cultural Scaffolding of Rape,
Nicola Gavey provides an extensive commentary on the existing
literature on rape, analysing recent research to examine the
psychological and cultural conditions of possibility for
contemporary sexual violence. Just Sex? argues that feminist theory
on sexual victimization has gone both too far and not far enough.
It presents the reader with a challenging and original perspective
on the issues of rape, sex and the body, incorporating new material
on sexism, misogyny and digital culture, as well as debates over
gendered analyses of sexual violence. The second edition has been
updated and expanded to be extremely timely and relevant, with the
most recent high-profile rape cases - the Stanford rape case and
the Belfast rape case - being tried in the media and online. The
rise of the Hollywood Harvey Weinstein scandal and the #MeToo
movement makes this book incredibly useful and necessary to those
who are working within the area of sexual violence. This will
appeal to academic readers studying psychology, sociology, and
criminology, as well as those looking into cultural influences on
society. It will also be very useful to those working in the
professional sector on prevention and with people who have been
subjected to sexual violence.
This new collection explores for the first time male sex work
from a rich array of perspectives and disciplines. It aims to help
enrich the ways in which we view both male sex work as a field of
commerce and male sex worker themselves.
Leading contributors examine the field both historically and
cross-culturally from fields including public health, sociology,
psychology, social services, history, filmography, economics,
mental health, criminal justice, geography, and migration studies,
and more.
Synthesizing introductions by the editors help the reader
understand the implications of the findings and conclusions for
scholars, practitioners, students, and members of the
interested/concerned public.
How can we currently understand sexual dysfunction? How can
psychodynamic theories contribute to an understanding of sexual
difficulties? How can we treat sexual problems
psychodynamically?;Counsellors and therapists can be hesitant about
addressing the sexual problems of their clients from any
perspective and sometimes lack the confidence to tackle the issues
as they arise. This is the first book to describe comprehensively a
specifically psychodynamic approach to sexual dysfunction. It
reviews the range and nature of sexual difficulties, and evaluates
the relevance of psychodynamic theory and interventions to the
understanding, assessment and treatment of sexual problems with
individuals and couples. It is illustrated throughout with helpful
case study material. It shows how physical and cultural
understandings of sexuality and sexual difficulty need to be an
integrated part of work wih clients "Psychodynamic Approaches to
Sexual Problems" is a useful book for all trainee and practising
counsellors and therapists working within a psychodynamic or
integrated framework.
First published in Italian in 1977, Mario Mieli's groundbreaking
book is an early landmark of revolutionary queer theory - now
available for the first time in a complete and unabridged English
translation. Among the most important works ever to address the
relationship between homosexuality, homophobia and capitalism,
Mieli's essay continues to pose a radical challenge to today's
dominant queer theory and politics. With extraordinary prescience,
Mieli exposes the efficiency with which capitalism co-opts
'perversions' which are then 'sold both wholesale and retail'. In
his view the liberation of homosexual desire requires the
emancipation of sexuality from both patriarchal sex roles and
capital. Drawing heavily upon Marx and psychoanalysis to arrive at
a dazzlingly original vision, Towards a Gay Communism is a hitherto
neglected classic that will be essential reading for all who seek
to understand the true meaning of sexual liberation under
capitalism today.
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