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". . . a particularly well-wrought and intelligent book. It provides an extensive introduction to traditional psychological approaches, while acknowledging their weaknesses, and in a judicious and detailed review the authors take us through a fascinating survey of the constructionist and discursive modes of enquiry and what they reveal about sex and gender. This will make not only an excellent textbook, but is good reading as well." - Rom Harre,Linacre College, Oxford and Georgetown University

* To what extent are gender and sexuality 'programmed in the genes' and to what extent are they acquired through learning and from culture?
* What is wrong with traditional ways in which psychology has addressed these topics and what better alternatives are there?
* What do these new approaches have to offer us in understanding our own gender and sexuality, our life experiences and our relationships?

Gender and sexuality permeate our lives and have a profound influence on who we are and what we feel, think and do. This book provides a fundamental and wide-ranging introduction to different psychological approaches to this field. It reviews both traditional and current theorization, reflecting the contradictory approaches that try to explain how gender and sexuality are acquired, their impact on identity, and their influence on life-styles, life-opportunities and life-choices.

The Psychology of Gender and Sexuality is unique in providing a comprehensive introduction to both gender and sexuality. Using examples that are highly relevant to today's generation of students, it encourages the reader to explore the implications of the various theoretical approaches for men and women and their relationships with each other. This is a lively and readable textbook for general introductory courses and an ideal starting point for more advanced specialist courses on these topics. ... Read more

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A great supplementary paperback for social problems or introductory sociology, as well as courses on gender, the family, or human sexuality. The only well-researched and well-written book that examines how and why sexual behavior and issues are different for women and men. ... Read more

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The Gender of Sexuality: Sexual Possibilities
This book will definitely answer and address all of your questions on gender and sexuality.A great book filled with a lot of knowledge of yesterday and today's gender issues in sexuality. ... Read more

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The essays included here reflect differences in race, gender and class and demonstrate how different social groups experience different sets of social norms. Topics include gender and sex theory, identity, childhood and adolescent sexuality, the objectification of women, sexuality and religion, leisure and recreation, politics and social change and the possible future of sexual relationships. ... Read more

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Sex tourism fiction
Readers interested in fiction about sex tourism may enjoy Naked in Haiti: A sexy morality tale about tourists, prostitutes & politicians. It's not postmodern, and it's mostly entertainment. Nevertheless, there is a dark heart at the center of the prostitution business, and this book doesn't shy away from it. ... Read more

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Informative text book
I purchased this book as a required text for the University of Kentucky doctoral program but would recommend it to anyone who has an interest in studying male/female differences and similarities. ... Read more

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Eskeridge and Hunter's Sexuality, Gender and the Law provides detailed information on the sexuality, gender, and the law. The casebook provides the tools for fast, easy, on-point research. Part of the University Casebook Series®, it includes selected cases designed to illustrate the development of a body of law on a particular subject. Text and explanatory materials designed for law study accompany the cases. ... Read more

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This is a best-selling text for Psychology of Women, Sex and Gender, or Sex Roles undergraduate courses offered by Psychology departments. Known for its engaging, never oversimplified style, Women and Gender features an integrated thematic organization synthesized in the final chapter. The authors, who are well-known, active scholars in the field, offer a feminist perspective--advocating basic equality of women and men socially, economically, and politically--while objectively reporting research findings. ... Read more

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Life changing material
Often we accept the status quo that we are born into.We are not prodded to criticize the rules and standards passed on by our fathers and their forefathers. The key word here is FATHERS!This book isn't about being liberal or conservative, its about completeness. History, Education, and gender bias have ignored and continue to marginalize half of our society.I had not realized this before I took this class or read this book.I had the same societially fed distaste for feminism that most people have, but feminists are, in the highest sense, humanists.This book explores with research, (rather than only theorizing) sources of discrimination and oppression for both men and women.This book has been a source of empowerment for both me and many of the women around me.I strongly encourage ANYONE to read it.This book has not only changed my mind, but it has changed my life.

Good work, well researched, liberal ideas.
This book is generally good, unfortunatley the class I took that used this book was not good. So I'm having trouble separating the book from the class. Taken by itself the book is informative and I feel does a good jobof covering the various expiriences of women.The book, of course, doestake a liberal slant but the attempt to be balanced is there and should beappreciated by readers of a more conservative slant. The authors do have anagenda, as do most liberal feminists, and they make no apologies for theirideas. The best sections are the ones dealing with women and sexuality. Theauthors are sensitive and try to go beyond mere male-bashing. The authorsalso stick to significant issues, (something the class didn't do), and tokeep the book from getting to boring they insert cartoons, usuallyDoonsberry, to illustrate their case. The cartoons are appropriate and addto the work. ... Read more

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"This is a valuable project. The editors are excellent, well-knownscholars, and activists in the academy."--Darlene Clark Hine

Traps is the first anthology of writings by 19th- and 20th-century AfricanAmerican men on the overlapping categories of race, gender, and sexuality.Monolithic constructions of gender and sexuality, reinforced by sexism andhistorical sanctioned homophobia, are the "traps" that give this book its focusand its title.

Authors include: Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. Du Bois, Bayard Rustin, ManningMarable, Derrick Bell, James Baldwin, Charles Johnson, Henry Louis Gates, Jr.,Huey Newton, Cornel West, and Kalamu ya Salaam. ... Read more

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This anthology of contemporary articles (and court cases provides a philosophical analysis of race, sex and gender concepts and issues. Divided into three relatively independent yet thematically linked sections, the anthology first addresses identity issues, then injustices and inequalities, and then specific social and legal issues relevant to race, sex and gender. By exposing readers to both theoretical foundations, opposing views, and "real life" applications, the anthology prepares them to make critically reasoned decisions concerning today's race, gender and sex social issues.Sex and Gender Identity. Sexuality and Sexual Orientation. Race and Ethnicity. Racism. Sexism. Heterosexism and Homophobia. Equality and Preferential Treatment. Discriminatory Harassment. Identity Speech and Political Speech. Sexual Speech. Sexual Assault.For anyone interested in the philosophical underpinnings of today's Race, Sex, and Gender issues. ... Read more

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Over the last two decades, a rich, diverse, yet sometimes contradictory body of research has been gathered under the general rubric of "psychology of women." This burgeoning literature represents several disciplines, among them psychology, psychiatry, sociology, political science, and women's studies. To bring sense to this agglomeration of views, both for the layperson and the student, the author looks at research in this area as a social process and refutes the notion that science can be objective about its search for universal truths. She asks us to reflect on how we choose among explanations of behavior, calling the need to examine the psychology of women in a social and historical context. Throughout the book, Riger reveals how interpretive frameworks shape how we perceive research findings. Her central theme suggests that social factors shape the meaning and experience of biological femaleness. ... Read more

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A Fresh Look at Gender and Psychology
"Transforming Pyschology" is an appropriate title, because the project of the book is to rethink the received wisdom in a variety of areas related to gender in both the theory and practice of psychology.The insights are startling in their lack of cant and in their unpredictability and originality.On the one hand, the author argues that gender bias can in fact impact traditional and psychological methodology.On the other hand, she vindicates the possibility of an objective psychological methodology, though, of course, one freed of this bias.In doing so, she leaves more conventional schools of feminist thought behind, or, more accurately, advances their case by bringing new insights to bear.The one theme that recurs is Riger's emphasis on the social context rather than the isolated individual as the best way of understanding psychological issues.If emphasizing the wider context makes Riger a feminist in her approach, then she no doubt would welcome that characterization.She draws on a very wide variety of sources, from organizational studies on familiar topics such as the "glass ceiling" to works on the criminal justice system.One particularly original chapter deals with the issues of methodology in the context of research projects on violence against women, concluding that the collaborative nature of studies in this important and disturbing area has brought about new methodological problems, problems resulting from the very nature of the well-intentioned collaboration.In this chapter, as throughout the book, the thinking is original and the insights are disturbing.This book sets a high standard for not allowing prevailing ideas in gender and psychology blind us to what we can learn if we bring the insights of many fields to bear on highly-charged questions. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Papers: Explorations into Children's Literature, published by Thomson Gale on May 1, 2006. The length of the article is 5520 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Sex education, Hollywood style: gender, sexuality and identity in The Girl Next Door.(Critical essay)
Author: Sharyn Pearce
Publication: Papers: Explorations into Children's Literature (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 16Issue: 1Page: 33(8)

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This digital document is an article from Journal of Social History, published by Thomson Gale on June 22, 2007. The length of the article is 9160 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Sexuality and contraception in Modern England: doing the history of reproductive sexuality.(SECTION II GENDER AND SEXUALITY)
Author: Hera Cook
Publication: Journal of Social History (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 22, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 40Issue: 4Page: 915(18)

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