Overview

This new reader provides a social constructionist approach to teaching about sexuality. Its 65 selections combine a range of classic theoretical articles with a large number of original pieces, organized to help students understand the ways sexuality influences every aspect of their lives. The reader focuses on the theoretical and the personal stories of people's sexuality. Personal narratives, many written by students, bridge the gap between theory and experience. The book invites the student into thinking about how sexuality itself is constructed as a result of norms, values, beliefs and practices. It weaves together gender and sexuality, helping students understand the intersection between the two (and the confusion in society when we find people don't easily fit into categories). - Each reading considers the relevance of personal, political, historical and cultural influences on sexual practices, desires and identities, appealing to a wide range of students in various academic disciplines. - The readings focus on contemporary sexual issues and identities that always stimulate classroom discussion and are certain to keep students reading. - The book has a true sociological perspective, rather than the more common medical and psychological, or health education approaches, to sexuality, bringing a historical and theoretical perspective to the topic.

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Author:   Robert Heasley ,  Betsy Crane
Publisher:   McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
Imprint:   McGraw Hill Higher Education
Dimensions:   Width: 18.50cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.80cm
Weight:   0.928kg
ISBN:  

9780072493641

ISBN 10:   007249364
Pages:   640
Publication Date:   27 September 2002
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Learning to Think Critically about Sexuality: An Introduction Part One: Sexuality in Historical, Religious and Cultural Perspective Introduction 1. Sexual Journeys: - Becoming a Woman, Patricia - My Awakening, Josh 2. The Social Constructionist's Essential Guide to Sex, Liahna E. Gordon & Sharon A. Abbott 3. The Invention of Sexuality, Jeffrey Weeks 4. The Role of Religion in our Sexual Lives, Ira L. Reiss and Harriet M. Reiss 5. Cultural and Historical Influences on Sexuality in Hispanic/Latin Women, Oliva M. Espin 6. Sexuality Research in the United States, Diane di Mauro Part Two: Becoming Sexual: How We Learn About Sex (or Don't) Introduction 7. The Kotex Diaries, Laurel Black 8. Becoming Sexual: Differences Between Child and Adult Sexuality, Fred Rothbaum, Avery Grauer, & David Rubin 9. I Just Want to be Normal: Initiation into Heterosexual Dating, Sophia Demasi 10. Where'd You Learn That? Ron Stodghill II 11. Blow Jobs and Other Boring Stuff, Susannah Indigo 12. Daughters with Disabilities: Defective Women or Minority Women?, Harilyn Rousso 13. Do Women Choose Their Sexual Identity? Carla Golden 14. Student stories: - So!Honestly Gay, Eric Leadbetter - Where's Taylor When I Need Him, Rachel-Storm Heasley 15. Gay, Lesbian, & Bisexual Students: The Impact of School on Sexual Identity Development, Melinda S. Miceli Part Three: Gendered Sexuality Introduction 16. Sisters, Jamie Buki 17. Sexual Desire and Gender, Pepper Schwartz & Virginia Rutter 18. The Four Boxes of Gendered Sexuality: Good Girl/Bad Girl &Tough Guy/Sweet Guy, Betsy Crane & Jesse Crane-Seeber 19. Reconstructing Black Masculinity, bell hooks 20. Ritualizing Heterosexuality: Weddings as Performance, Chrys Ingraham 21. Country Music and Women's Sexuality: What Do Women Want?, Judith Barker 22. Dismantling Gender Polarization and Compulsory Heterosexuality: Should We Turn the Volume Down or Up? Sandra Lipsitz Bem 23. Same Closet, Different Door: A Heterosexual Sissy's Coming-Out Party, Allan Hunter 24. Transgender Warriors: Making History, Leslie Feinberg Part Four: Sex and the Body Introduction 25. The Kindest Un-Cut: Feminism, Judaism, and My Son's Foreskin, Michael S. Kimmel 26. A Story of Sexuality and Gender in Three Parts, L. Maurer & M. Kelly 27. Medicine, Morality, and the Public Management of Sexual Matters, Leonore Tiefer 28. Hands Off! The Taboo Around Males' First Ejaculation, Loren Frankel 29. Socially Camouflaged Technologies: The Case of the Electromechanical Vibrator, Rachel Maines 30. The Orgasm Industry: Drug Companies Search for a Female Viagra, Sonia Shah 31. Don't Give Up on Sex After 60, Helen Gurley-Brown 32. The Five Sexes, Revisited, Anne Fausto-Sterling 33. To Be Poor and Transgender, Kai Wright 34. Re-defining Sex and Intimacy: The Sexual Self-Images, Outlooks, and Relationships of Gay Men Living with HIV/AIDS, Kent L. Sandstrom Part Five: Sexualities: Orientations and Relationships Introduction 35. Desire. Love. Sex. Friendship. Jerome E. Ng 36. Heterosexuality and Social Theory, Diane Richardson 37. Becoming 100 Percent Straight, Michael Messner 38. Bi Any Other Name, Loraine Hutchins & Lani Kaahumanu 39. I am a Queer Heterosexual, Sharon Kelly 40. Heterosexual Questionnaire, Martin Rochlin 41. From Holiness to Wholeness: My Sexual Journey, Josiah Gromley 42. The Straight Jacket of My Homophobia, Benjamin B. Herold 43. Sexualities in Community: Past and Present - Sexuality and Relationships in the Shaker, Oneida, and Mormon Communities, Lawrence Foster - A Smorgasboard of Alternatives, Ivy Bresson - Infilling with the Spirit at Christiansbrunn Kloster, Brother Johannes Renatus Zinzendorf Part Six: Commodified Sex: The Buying and Selling of Sex Introduction 44. Voices of Sex Workers - Confessions of a Priestesstute, Donna Marie Niles - What It Cost, T. R. - Leaving the Streets, Gloria Lockett 45. The Social Consequences of Unchastity, Gail Pheterson 46. The Sex Exploiter: Theme Paper for the Second World Congress Against Commercial Exploitation of Children, Julia O'Connell Davidson 47. Pornography: Not For Men Only, Mariana Valverde 48. Pornography and the Alienation of Male Sexuality, Harry Brod 49. Towards a Feminist Erotica, Kathy Myers Part Seven: Sexual Abuse and Rape Introduction 50. Two Poems: - Teacher, Scott - Last Chance, Mary Reilly 51. The Alchemy of Healing: Transforming from Victim to Victor & Lullaby, Regina Rivers 52. Men, Women, and Rape, Susan Brownmiller 53. The Day My Life Changed, British Medical Journal 54. Demands From the Women of Antioch, Kristine Herman (with Antioch College Sexual Offense Policy) 55. Breaking the Silence, Making Laughter: Testimony of an Asian-American Sister, Luoluo Hong 56. Male Rape Victims in Prison Get Little Empathy, Contemporary Sexuality 57. Men on Rape: What They Have to Say about Sexual Violence, Timothy Beneke Part Eight: Sex, Politics, and Policies Introduction 58. Contraceptive Policy and Ethics: Illustrations from American History, Kathleen E. Powderly 59. Rights; Treatment of Sexual Minorities a Global Shame, Marwaan Macan-Markar 60. Not My Daughter, Sally Armstrong 61. Report from a Study Tour: Teen Sexuality Education in the Netherlands, France and Germany, Maureen Kelly & Michael McGee 62. The Surgeon General's Call to Action to Promote Sexual Health and Responsible Sexual Behavior, David Satcher Part Nine: Possible Sexualities: Images of Sexuality beyond Oppression Introduction 63. Cuntist Mystique, Inga Muscio 64. My Sexual Odyssey: A Father's Reflections, H. J. Randolph 65. Heteroflexibility, Laurie Essig 66. Sex: The Sensual Man, Mick Cooper & Peter Baker 67. Sex (American Style), Thomas Moore 68. The Tantric Vision, Margo Anand 69. Student Voices: - Something New: Let's Talk about Dirty, Summer Killian - I Have a Dream, Dave Justice

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Robert Heasley is currently at Indiana University of Pennsylvania in the Department of Sociology where he teaches courses on sexuality, and men and masculinity. Previously on the faculty at Ithaca College and at University of Alaska Anchorage, Robert received his Ph.D. from Cornell University. He has lectured, led workshops and worked with school systems for over 20 years on issues related to men's lives, raising boys, and confronting homophobia. Having previously worked as a health and human services administrator, his teaching and research interests, in addition to sexuality, include gender-related problems and interventions, clinical sociological practice, human service theory, program development, and mental health/life issues. Robert has taught courses in sexuality at Cornell University and SUNY Upstate Medical School. He was selected to give the 1998 lecture on sexuality for the Dorothy Everett Martin Lecture Series at the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Work. Betsy Crane is currently in the Department of Sociology at Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP), teaching and coordinating an Administrative and Leadership Studies/Human Services doctoral program. Betsy received her Ph.D. from Cornell University where, as a member of the extension faculty, she co-developed the Empowerment Skills for Family Workers curriculum now used in Family Development Credential training programs across the country. She brings nearly 30 years of experience as a sexuality and family life educator, and has published on topics related to sexuality education and homophobia. As director of a women's health agency, Betsy received awards for innovation in women's health services. In addition to courses in human sexuality, Betsy has taught courses on women and health, and human service practice. Betsy served on the board of the National Campaign to End Homophobia and founded a community-based organization providing HIV/AIDS services. Her extensive work with community-based groups has included leading hundreds of workshops for children, teens, parents, teachers and youth workers, as well as writing and developing elementary school curricula on family life and sexuality.

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