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"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"

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Author:   Alice S. Rossi
Publisher:   The University of Chicago Press
Imprint:   University of Chicago Press
Edition:   2nd ed.
Dimensions:   Width: 1.60cm , Height: 0.30cm , Length: 2.40cm
Weight:   0.765kg
ISBN:  

9780226728339

ISBN 10:   0226728331
Pages:   436
Publication Date:   15 August 1994
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock  
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Table of Contents

I The Biopsychosocial Perspective1 Eros and Caritas: A Biopsychosocial Approach to Human Sexuality and Reproduction, Alice S. Rossi II Sexual Diversity: History, Culture, and Lifestyle 2 Human Sexuality, Life Histories, and Evolutionary Biology, Jane B. Lancaster 3 Attitudes toward Sexual Permissiveness: Trends, Correlates, and Behavioral Connections, Tom W. Smith 4 Sexuality among African-American Women, Claire Sterk-Elifson 5 African-American Male Sexuality through the Early Life Course, Benjamin P. Bowser 6 Single Worlds and Homosexual Lifestyles: Patterns of Sexuality and Intimacy, Martha R. Fowlkes III Sexuality at Selected Phases of the Life Course 7 Getting Started on Sexual Behavior, J. Richard Udry and Benjamin C. Campbell 8 Changing Lives, Changing Genres: Teenage Girls' Narratives about Sex and Romance, Sharon Thompson 9 Sexuality, Marriage, and Well-Being: The Middle Years, John N. Edwards and Alan Booth 10 Age-Related Variation in Sexual Activity and Interest in Normal Men: Results from the Massachusetts Male Aging Study, John B. McKinlay and Henry A. Feldman 11 Sex and Sexuality in Later Life Stages, Judith A. Levy IV Selected Health Issues 12 Impact of Chronic Disease and Medication on Sexual Functioning, Raul C. Schiavi 13 Sexual Problems and Therapies: A Quarter Century of Developments and Changes, Richard Green 14 Sexual Offending and Victimization: A Life Course Perspective, Richard J. Gelles and Glenn Wolfner

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Alice S. Rossi, editor of the volume and author of six of the thirteen chapters, is the Harriet Martineau Professor Emerita of Sociology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is a past president of the American Sociological Association and the author of many books, including Sexuality across the Life Course, also published by the University of Chicago Press. Both she and the contributing authors were members or associates of the Research Network on Successful Midlife Development, a network supported by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

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