Category: Sexuality

By Myra J. Hird

ISBN-10: 023051071X

ISBN-13: 9780230510715

ISBN-10: 1403921768

ISBN-13: 9781403921765

In intercourse, Gender and technological know-how, Myra Hird outlines the social examine of technology and nature, in particular with regards to intercourse, intercourse ameliorations, and sexuality. She examines how Western understandings of intercourse are established much less upon figuring out fabric intercourse adjustments than on a discourse that emphasizes intercourse dichotomy over intercourse range and argues for a feminist engagement with clinical debate that embraces the variety and complexity of nature.

By Jeffrey Weeks, Janet Holland

ISBN-10: 0333650042

ISBN-13: 9780333650042

ISBN-10: 1349245186

ISBN-13: 9781349245185

The new sociology of sexuality has a two-fold objective: to illustrate how the social shapes the sexual; and to examine how the sexual in flip turns into a focus for private identification, cultural anxiousness price debates and political motion. Drawing on papers from the 1994 British Sociological organization annual convention on 'Sexualities in Social Context', this quantity brings jointly key members to this stimulating new process. issues lined contain theoretical advancements, the connection among heritage and modern controversies, neighborhood and identification, in particular within the context of AIDS, worth conflicts and alterations within the meanings of intimacy. The booklet as an entire bargains an important intervention into debates on sexuality, and a considerate contribution to the broadening of the sociological agenda.

By Arthur Kroker, Marilouise Kroker

ISBN-10: 0333468414

ISBN-13: 9780333468418

ISBN-10: 1349190950

ISBN-13: 9781349190959

By Havelock Ellis

The Evolution of Modesty, The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity, and Auto-Erotism

By Geoffrey Miller

ISBN-10: 0670020621

ISBN-13: 9780670020621

A prime evolutionary psychologist probes the hidden instincts at the back of our operating, procuring, and spending

Evolutionary psychology-the compelling technology of human nature-has clarified the prehistoric origins of human habit and motivated many fields starting from economics to non-public relationships. In Spent Geoffrey Miller applies this innovative science's ideas to a brand new area: the sensual wonderland of promoting and standing looking that we name American patron tradition. beginning with the elemental idea that the products and prone we purchase unconsciously market it our organic strength as associates and acquaintances, Miller examines the hidden elements that dictate our offerings in every little thing from lipstick to vehicles, from the magazines we learn to the tune we hearken to. With humor and perception, Miller analyzes an array of product offerings and deciphers what our judgements say approximately ourselves, giving us entry to a brand new approach of understanding-and improving-our behaviors. Like Freakonomics or The Tipping aspect, Spent is a daring and revelatory ebook that illuminates the unseen good judgment at the back of the chaos of consumerism and indicates new methods we will turn into happier shoppers and extra in charge citizens.

By Sally Hines, Tam Sanger

ISBN-10: 0203856147

ISBN-13: 9780203856147

ISBN-10: 0415810582

ISBN-13: 9780415810586

ISBN-10: 0415999308

ISBN-13: 9780415999304

In recent times transgender has emerged as a topic of accelerating social and cultural curiosity. This quantity deals shiny bills of the variety of dwelling transgender in latest international. the 1st part, "Emerging Identities," maps the ways that social, cultural, felony and clinical advancements form new identities on either anyone and collective point. instead of easily reflecting social switch, those shifts paintings to actively build modern identities. the second one part, "Trans Governance," examines how legislations and social coverage have replied to modern gender shifts. The third part, "Transforming Identity," explores gender and sexual id practices inside of cultural and subcultural areas. the ultimate part, "Transforming Theory?", deals a theoretical mirrored image at the expanding visibility of trans humans in today’s society and strains the demanding situations and the contributions transgender thought has delivered to gender thought, queer conception and sociological ways to id and citizenship. that includes contributions from through the global, this quantity represents the state of the art scholarship in transgender stories and may be of curiosity to students and students interested in gender, sexuality, and sociology.

By Marie L. Miville, Angela D. Ferguson

ISBN-10: 1461488591

ISBN-13: 9781461488590

ISBN-10: 1461488605

ISBN-13: 9781461488606

Multicultural elements of psychology have got a few realization within the literature within the final decade. a couple of texts at present tackle those major matters, for instance, Counseling the Culturally varied (Sue & Sue, 2008); guide of Multicultural Counseling ( Poterotto et l., 2009); and guide of Multicultural Counseling expertise (Pope-Davis & Coleman, 2005). of their newest variants, numerous of those books handle extra nuanced complexities of variety, for instance, the intersections of gender or social type with race-ethnicity. in the meantime, different texts have addressed gender concerns in psychology (Handbook of Counseling girls, Counseling Men), with a few realization paid to racial-ethnic and different range issues. truly the development of scholarship during this box displays the significance of incorporating a number of points of variety inside psychology. despite the fact that, no publication at present exists that totally addresses the complexities of race-ethnicity and gender jointly. greater figuring out of the twin impression of race-ethnicity and gender on mental functioning could lead to more desirable conceptualizations of a few psychological overall healthiness matters, equivalent to family violence, addictions, health-related behaviors and success. Exploring the influence of race-ethnicity and gender additionally may supply a broader figuring out of self-in-community, as this impacts participants, households and different social teams and paintings and occupation improvement. subject matters of curiosity may perhaps contain id improvement, worldviews and trust platforms, parenting kinds, interventions for selling resilience and patience and methods for boosting extra actual diagnostic and remedy modalities. Today’s global is made from a number of and intersecting groups that stay wanting mental types and interventions that aid and advertise either person and collective psychological overall healthiness. We think that using unidimensional conceptual types (e.g. focusing exclusively on race-ethnicity or gender) not competently addresses mental matters which are dynamic, complicated and multi-faceted. The proposed guide will specialize in well timed themes which traditionally were under-addressed for a few varied populations.

By Viviana A. Weekes-Shackelford, Todd K. Shackelford

ISBN-10: 1493903136

ISBN-13: 9781493903139

ISBN-10: 1493903144

ISBN-13: 9781493903146

This quantity within the Springer sequence in Evolutionary Psychology offers a cutting-edge view of the subject of sexuality and sexual habit drawing on theoretical constructs and study of famous members within the box. finished and multi-disciplinary, this e-book seeks to supply a wide evaluation with no sacrificing the complexity of a multi-faceted procedure. The ebook is framed by means of introductory and shutting sections that offer a context for the diversity of principles contained inside of. abundant house is supplied in distinctive sections that target key parts of sexuality from either female and male views and that come with info from primate experiences. This quantity can function a graduate textual content in sexual habit in evolutionary phrases and as a consultant for additional research.

By Henry F. Fradella, Jennifer M. Sumner

ISBN-10: 1138852090

ISBN-13: 9781138852099

ISBN-10: 1138852112

ISBN-13: 9781138852112

Intercourse, Sexuality, legislation, and (In)Justice covers a variety of criminal concerns linked to sexuality, gender, copy, and identification. those are serious and delicate concerns that legislations enforcement and different legal justice execs have to comprehend. The publication synthesizes the literature throughout a large breadth of views, exposing scholars to legislation, psychology, felony justice, sociology, philosophy, historical past, and, the place appropriate, biology, to severely research the social keep an eye on of intercourse, gender, and sexuality throughout history.　 particular federal and nation case legislation and statutes are built-in in the course of the e-book, however the textual content strikes past the intersection among legislation and sexuality to concentration simply as a lot on social technology because it does on law.　 This ebook may be worthy in instructing classes in a number of disciplines—especially criminology and felony justice, background, political technological know-how, sociology, girls and gender reviews, and legislation.

By M. McLelland

ISBN-10: 1137014962

ISBN-13: 9781137014962

ISBN-10: 1349298786

ISBN-13: 9781349298785

This can be the 1st publication in English to envision, through material within the well known press, the radical alterations that happened in jap principles approximately intercourse, romance and male-female family members within the wake of Japan's defeat and profession through Allied forces on the finish of the second one international battle.