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Author:   John Bancroft
Publisher:   Indiana University Press
Imprint:   Indiana University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 3.40cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.740kg
ISBN:  

9780253337061

ISBN 10:   0253337062
Pages:   376
Publication Date:   22 May 2000
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Awaiting stock  

Table of Contents

Introduction :John Bancroft Session 1 - Sexuality Across The Life Cycle Chair: Shirley Lindenbaum Presenters: Anke Ehrhardt :Gender, Sexuality and the Life Course Anthony Walsh :Human Reproductive Strategies and Life History Theory Discussants: Sarah Blaffer Hrdy Leonore Tiefer General Discussion. Session 2 - Sexual Orientation Chair: Kenneth Plummer Presenters: Daryl Bem :The Exotic-becomes-erotic Theory of Sexual Orientation Gilbert Herdt :Why Do the Sambia Intitiate Boys Before Age 10? Discussants: Heino F. L. Meyer-bahlburg Gary Dowsett General Discussion. Session 3 - Individual Differences in Sexual Risk Taking Chair: Edward O. Laumann Presenters: John Gagnon :Reflections on Risk and Sex John Bancroft :Individual Differences in Sexual Risk Taking: a Psycho-socio-biological Theoretical Approach Discussants: Jay Philip Paul Meg Gerrard General Discussion. Session 4 - Adolescent Sexuality Chair: Diane Di Mauro Presenters: Constance Nathanson :The Impregnable Myth of Teenage Pregnancy: a Case Study of the Gap Between Science and Public Policy Joseph Lee Rodgers :Social Contagion and Adolescent Sexual Behaviour: Theoretical and Policy Implications Discussants: Caroline Bledsoe J. Dennis Fortenberry Claire D. Brindis Session 5 - Policy And Culture Richard Parker :Sexuality and Culture Robert T. Michael :Comments on Policy Issues Conclusion :John Bancroft Contributors Index

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John Bancroft, M.D., was trained in medicine at Cambridge University and in psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry, London. He has been Director of the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction, and Professor of Psychiatry at Indiana University since May 1995. For the previous 19 years he was Clinical Scientist at the Medical Research Council's Reproductive Biology Unit in Edinburgh, Scotland. He has extensive research and clinical experience in the relationship of reproductive hormones to sexuality and well-being, psychophysiology and pharmacology of sexual response, and the management of sexual problems. He is author of Human Sexuality and Its Problems (2nd edition, 1989), was founding editor of Annual Review of Sex Research, and a past president of the International Academy of Sex Research.

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