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An epidemic of sexually-transmitted infections and sexual violence
is upon us. Political interests are overriding sexual freedom in
the name of morality. Marriages are just as likely to fail as they
are to succeed. Why, in a time of unprecedented personal liberties
and medical knowledge, are so many Americans so uncertain about
what constitutes ethical sexual behavior?
Sex Appeal is neither a moralistic screed nor a self-indulgent
guide to sexual utopia. Instead, it charts a thoughtful course
between extremes to present six ethical principles for sexual
health and happiness: do no harm, celebrate sex, be careful, know
yourself, speak up and speak out, and throw no stones. Sex Appeal
elaborates upon each of these principles, asserting that sex can be
fun, safe, and life-enhancing if approached in the right spirit and
with the information necessary to make wise sexual choices.
Providing clear guidelines for individuals seeking answers to their
own personal questions about sex, the book also connects these
questions to larger issues, such as how we as a society can reduce
levels of sexual harm and sexually-transmitted infections, and how
everyday individual choices can support this effort. Persuasive and
eminently readable, Sex Appeal offers a welcome dose of clarity and
common sense to todays most pressing sexual issues.
A fascinating glimpse into the history of sexual perversions and
diversions including fetishism, cross-dressing, 'effeminate' men
and 'masculinized' women, sodomy, tribadism, masturbation,
necrophilia, rape, paedophilia, flagellation, and sado-masochism,
asking how these sexual inclinations were viewed at a particular
time in history.
Family Newspapers? provides the first detailed historical study of
modern popular press coverage of sex and private life, from the
start of the mass newspaper reading boom in 1918 to the triumph of
the Sun's sexualized journalism in 1978, when circulation overtook
that of its rival, the Daily Mirror.
In this period, newspapers were at the heart of British popular
culture, and Fleet Street's preoccupation with sex meant that the
press was a hugely significant source of knowledge and imagery
about sexual behavior, personal relationships, and moral codes.
Focusing on changing ideas of what sexual content was deemed "fit
to print," Adrian Bingham reveals how editors negotiated the
tension between exploiting public curiosity about sex and ensuring
that their journalism remained within the bounds of acceptability
for a "family newspaper." The study challenges established
interpretations of social change by drawing attention to the ways
in which the press opened up the public discussion of sexuality
before the 'permissiveness' of the 1960s.
Exploring the spectacular diversity of the press's sexual
content--from advice columns to pin-ups, from court reports to
celebrity revelations--Bingham offers a rich and thought-provoking
investigation of a media form that has done much to shape the
character of modern Britain.
For many years the focus of fear and disgust, the anus is actually
one of the human body's most wondrous creations-elegant, efficient,
and richly supplied with pleasure nerves. However, stress and
ignorance can turn the anus and its functions from a source of
delight into a painful disability. What's needed is an owner's
manual-and here it is Join therapist and sexologist Jack Morin,
Ph.D., on this tour of the anus, complete with information and
exercises to open the door to new sources of comfort and
gratification. You'll unlearn habits that can cause everything from
hemorrhoids to chronic pelvic pain- and, if you choose, learn new
ways of achieving solo and partnered pleasures through this
humblest of portals.
The Cambridge Handbook of Sexual Development is a carefully curated
conversation that brings together the top researchers in child and
adolescent sexual development to redefine the issues, conflicts,
and debates in the field. The Handbook is organized around three
foundational questions: first, what is sexual development? Second,
how do we study sexual development? And third, what roles might
adults - including the institutions of the media, family, and
education - play in the sexual development of children and
adolescents? As the first of its kind, this collection integrates
work from sociology, psychology, anthropology, history, education,
cultural studies, and allied fields. Writing from different
disciplinary traditions and about a range of international
contexts, the contributors explore the role of sexuality in
children's and adolescents' everyday experiences of identity,
family, school, neighborhood, religion, and popular media.
For many years, the interrelated histories of prostitution and
cities have perked the ears of urban scholars, but until now the
history of urban sex work has dealt only in passing with questions
of race. In I've Got to Make My Livin', Cynthia Blair explores
African American women's sex work in Chicago during the decades of
some of the city's most explosive growth, expanding not just our
view of prostitution, but also of black women's labor, the Great
Migration, black and white reform movements, and the emergence of
modern sexuality. Focusing on the notorious sex districts of the
city's south side, Blair paints a complex portrait of black
prostitutes as conscious actors and historical agents;
prostitution, she argues here, was both an arena of exploitation
and abuse, as well as a means of resisting middle-class sexual and
economic norms. Blair ultimately illustrates just how powerful
these norms were, offering stories about the struggles that emerged
among black and white urbanites in response to black women's
increasing visibility in the city's sex economy. Through these
powerful narratives, I've Got to Make My Livin' reveals the
intersecting racial struggles and sexual anxieties that underpinned
the celebration of Chicago as the quintessentially modern
twentieth-century city.
The United States may have a puritanical past, but the 21st century
is wide open to diverse gender expression and romance. Good Sex is
the manifesto-or Manisexto, if you will-for this cultural
revolution. Same-sex marriage is legal, the #MeToo movement has
exploded, colleges nationwide now teach consent-based sexual
health, the media celebrates body positivity, and transgender
visibility has become mainstream. Defining "good sex" as both
ethical and pleasurable, Catherine M. Roach features such topics as
equity, intersectionality, and shared pleasure while offering a
lively discussion that is inclusively feminist, queer-friendly, and
sex-positive without being divisive. An accessible guidebook, Good
Sex provides hope that America's sexual, gender, and racial
injustices can be addressed together. After all, this new gender
and sexual revolution strengthens the pursuit of happiness and
love. Welcome to the revolution!
This ground-breaking book explores the experiences of gay men and
their understanding of what it meant to be gay in the 20th Century:
from when homosexuality was illegal though the less repressed but
no less difficult eras of gay liberation and the HIV-AIDS epidemic.
This unique book examines the relationship between wounding and
sexuality, bringing together issues around sexuality, gender,
power, violence and representations. Drawing on a range of
disciplines including cultural and media studies, sociology and
psychology, it explores social practices such as S&M, cosmetic
surgery and 'extreme' sports.
In this volume, contributors from a range of perspectives -
evolutionary psychology to anthropology, sociology to cognitive and
motivational psychology - explore questions of what our
attractiveness preferences are and why we find certain others
physically attractive, offering a fresh perspective to
understanding the perception of attractiveness.
In The Queen of America Goes to Washington City, Lauren Berlant
focuses on the need to revitalize public life and political agency
in the United States. Delivering a devastating critique of
contemporary discourses of American citizenship, she addresses the
triumph of the idea of private life over that of public life borne
in the right-wing agenda of the Reagan revolution. By beaming light
onto the idealized images and narratives about sex and citizenship
that now dominate the U.S. public sphere, Berlant argues that the
political public sphere has become an intimate public sphere. She
asks why the contemporary ideal of citizenship is measured by
personal and private acts and values rather than civic acts, and
the ideal citizen has become one who, paradoxically, cannot yet act
as a citizen-epitomized by the American child and the American
fetus. As Berlant traces the guiding images of U.S. citizenship
through the process of privatization, she discusses the ideas of
intimacy that have come to define national culture. From the
fantasy of the American dream to the lessons of Forrest Gump, Lisa
Simpson to Queer Nation, the reactionary culture of imperilled
privilege to the testimony of Anita Hill, Berlant charts the
landscape of American politics and culture. She examines the
consequences of a shrinking and privatized concept of citizenship
on increasing class, racial, sexual, and gender animosity and
explores the contradictions of a conservative politics that
maintains the sacredness of privacy, the virtue of the free market,
and the immorality of state overregulation-except when it comes to
issues of intimacy. Drawing on literature, the law, and popular
media, The Queen of America Goes to Washington City is a stunning
and major statement about the nation and its citizens in an age of
mass mediation. As it opens a critical space for new theory of
agency, its narratives and gallery of images will challenge readers
to rethink what it means to be American and to seek salvation in
its promise.
'An absolute stunner: frank, funny, self-aware, constantly
surprising ... One of the most insightful representations I've read
of what it feels like to be alive these days' GEORGE SAUNDERS
________________________ One day Heidi Julavits sees her son
silhouetted by the sun and notices he is at the threshold of what
she calls "the end times of childhood." When did this happen, she
asks herself. Who is my son becoming-and what qualifies me to be
his guide? What follows starts to feel like uncharted waters. Rape
allegations rock the university campus where she teaches,
unleashing questions of justice and accountability. Julavits begins
to wonder how to prepare her son to be the best possible citizen of
the world he's about to enter. And what must she learn about
herself in order to responsibly steer him. Looking back to her own
childhood in Maine, where she often navigated the coastline in a
small boat relying on a decades-old sailing guide, Julavits takes
us on an intellectual navigation of the self. Throughout, she
intertwines her internal investigation with a wide-ranging
exploration of what it means to raise a child in a time full of
contradictions and moral complexity. Using the past and present as
points of orientation, Directions to Myself examines the messy
minutiae of contemporary family life alongside knottier
philosophical questions of politics and gender. Through it all,
Julavits discovers the beauty and the danger of telling stories as
a way to locate ourselves, and help others find us. Intimate,
rigorous, and refreshingly unsentimental about motherhood and
parenting, Directions to Myself is a love letter to Maine and a
reckoning with the disappearance of childhood-her children's and
her own-that cements Julavits' reputation as one of the most
engaged and innovative nonfiction writers today whose work has been
called "fascinating" (Washington Post), "scathingly funny" (Los
Angeles Times), and "exquisite" (New York Times).
Intimate relationships exist in social domains, in which there are
cultural rules regarding appropriate behaviors. But they also
inhabit psychological domains of thoughts, feelings, and desires.
How are intimate relationships experienced by people living in
various types of romantic or sexual relationships and in various
cultural regions around the world? In what ways are they similar,
and in what ways are they different? This book presents a
cross-cultural extension of the findings originating from the
classic Boston Couples Study. Amassing a wealth of new data from
almost 9,000 participants worldwide, Hill explores the factors that
predict having a current partner, relationship satisfaction, and
relationship commitment. These predictions are compared across
eight relationship types and nine cultural regions, then uniquely
combined in a Comprehensive Partner Model and a Comprehensive
Commitment Model. The findings test the generalizability of
previous theories about intimate relationships, with implications
for self-reflection, couples counseling, and well-being.
The provocative classic work newly updated
An intimate personal odyssey across America's changing sexual
landscape
When first published, Gay Talese's 1981 groundbreaking work,
"Thy Neighbor's Wife," shocked a nation with its powerful,
eye-opening revelations about the sexual activities and
proclivities of the American public in the era before AIDS. A
marvel of journalistic courage and craft, the book opened a window
into a new world built on a new moral foundation, carrying the
reader on a remarkable journey from the Playboy Mansion to the
Supreme Court, to the backyards and bedrooms of suburbia--through
the development of the porn industry, the rise of the "swinger"
culture, the legal fight to define obscenity, and the daily sex
lives of "ordinary" people. It is the book that forever changed the
way Americans look at themselves and one another.
A bestselling author of books on women's psychology explores the
journey toward complete womanhood--"conscious femininity". Woodman
(Addiction to Perfection) demonstrates the striving of contemporary
women for inner balance and wholeness in a patriarchal society that
resists the process. 6 halftones.
Following the success of Pink Therapy (1996 Open University Press)
as a practical guide for therapists, counsellors and others in
related professions working with lesbian, gay and bisexual clients
in affirmative ways, this volume is the first to address how this
can be approached from ten of the major therapeutic perspectives.
Each approach is discussed with regard to its historical and
theoretical relationship to these client groups and how the
approach can be beneficial or negative. Guidelines for using the
perspective supportively or practically are given, along with
references for further study. The volume marks an important step in
the dialogue between theoretical approaches and in the future
development of, and debate about, these increasingly important
fields in contemporary therapy.
This wide-ranging anthology takes a close look at the breadth of
human sexuality from a Jewish perspective. The essays begin with a
look at biblical and rabbinic views on sexuality, and then proceed
to explorations of sexuality at different moments in the life
cycle, sexuality and the marital model, diverse expressions of
sexuality, examples of sexuality education, the nexus of sexuality
and theology, and the challenges of contemporary sexual ethics. The
Sacred Encounter is a thought-provoking and important Jewish
resource. Perfect for personal study, or for high school or adult
classes.
A newly revised collection of provocative essays on Sex and its
many meanings in our culture by one of the most prolific, original,
and highly regarded sexologists in the field today.. This newly
updated collection features over 50 per cent new material,
spotlighting many of Leonore Tiefer's popular as well as
professional writings on the social construction of sexuality. It
includes a new section on the creation of female sexual dysfunction
(FSD), as well as new treatments of medicalization, feminist sex
therapy, sex and humor, sexology and the pharmaceutical industry,
and The Kiss. Tiefer's background as a sexologist is unusually
broad, including animal mating behavior research, medical research,
sex therapy, theories about the classification of dysfunctions, and
feminist and cultural analysis. Her wit and passion are evident in
such recent essays as Doing the Viagra Tango: Sex Pill as Symbol
and Substance, The McDonaldization of Sex, and A New Sexual
World-Not, as well as the now classic pieces Six Months at the
Daily News, Women's Sexuality: Not a Matter of Health, and Am I
Normal? The Question of Sex. This revised collection treats complex
and controversial as
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