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An undergraduate text incorporating the 1994 NORC study on American sexuality and updates on contraceptive research andinfertility techniques. Chapters on subjects including gender roles, biology, STDs and AIDS, and power and coercion contain learning aids such as Q&A sections throughout; boxed fe ... Read more

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Feeling Queer or Queer Feelings? presents highly innovative and contemporary ideas for counsellors, counselling and clinical psychologists and psychotherapists to consider in their work with non-heterosexual clients.

Ground-breaking ideas are presented by new thinkers in the area for issues such as:

• coming out
• transgender desire
• theoretical modalities in working with HIV
• the role of therapy in bondage and discipline, domination and submission, and sadomasochism
• the use of queer theory in therapeutic research.

Feeling Queer or Queer Feelings? will challenge present ideas about sex, gender and sexuality, and will prove to be invaluable for clinicians in this field.

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Sex and Gender (2nd edt.) is a substantially revised edition of a classic text. Adopting a balanced approach to the often controversial study of sex differences, the authors introduce the reader to the fundamental questions relating to sex and gender in an accessible way. Drawing on the latest research, new developments are explored such as the rise of evolutionary psychology and the influence of Social Role Theory as well as new psychoanalytic and ethno-methodological approaches which have all contributed to a greater understanding of the complex nature of masculinity and femininity. ... Read more

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Presents research about gender and helps students think critically about the differences between research findings and gender stereotypes.

This text examines the biology and social context in which women and men express gendered behaviors. Defining gender as the behaviors and attitudes that relate to (but are not entirely congruent with) biological sex, the book focuses on research and scholarship to provide the material for a critical review and an overall picture of gender from a psychological perspective. To highlight how research findings can relate to people’s lives, the book supplements the review of scholarly research with personal, narrative accounts of gender-relevant aspects of people's lives.  To emphasize the cross-cultural perspective of gender, the book including a section on diversity in most chapters but also weaves diversity issues throughout the text. The personal narrative and diversity highlights help to balance the research-based scholarship with the personal experience of gender.

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Mema's house is in the poor barrio Nezahualcoyotl, a crowded urban space on the outskirts of Mexico City where people survive with the help of family, neighbors, and friends. This house is a sanctuary for a group of young, homosexual men who meet to do what they can't do openly at home. They chat, flirt, listen to music, and smoke marijuana. Among the group are sex workers and transvestites with high heels, short skirts, heavy make-up, and voluminous hairstyles; and their partners, young, bisexual men, wearing T-shirts and worn jeans, short hair, and maybe a mustache.

Mema, an AIDS educator and the leader of this gang of homosexual men, invited Annick Prieur, a European sociologist, to meet the community and to conduct her fieldwork at his house. Prieur lived there for six months between 1988 and 1991, and she has kept in touch for more than eight years. As Prieur follows the transvestites in their daily activities--at their work as prostitutes or as hairdressers, at night having fun in the streets and in discos--on visits with their families and even in prisons, a fascinating story unfolds of love, violence, and deceit.

She analyzes the complicated relations between the effeminate homosexuals, most of them transvestites, and their partners, the masculine-looking bisexual men, ultimately asking why these particular gender constructions exist in the Mexican working classes and how they can be so widespread in a male-dominated society--the very society from which the term machismo stems. Expertly weaving empirical research with theory, Prieur presents new analytical angles on several concepts: family, class, domination, the role of the body, and the production ofdifferences among men.

A riveting account of heroes and moral dilemmas, community gossip and intrigue, Mema's House, Mexico's City offers a rich story of a hitherto unfamiliar culture and lifestyle. ... Read more

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Well worth the purchase
Annick Prieur did a terrific job putting Mema's house in a wider societal, psychological, and ultimately human context. Her analysis is almost always sharp and intelligent. The multitude of small stories around which shebuilds her argument are often funny, sometimes painful, but never pathetic.This is one of the best and most captivating academic works I have on mybookshelf.

The only thing I found somewhat lacking was a broaderhistorical context. (For example, I was surprised not to find Chauncey'sGay New York in the bibliography, because parallels with the New Yorksituation of 100 years ago can easily be drawn).

The relative lack of ahistorical setting leaves some questions unanswered. The vestidas arelargely able to construct their identity through fairly recently developedtechnologies (hormone pills, oil injections, and, of course, cheapcosmetics). With this in the back of one's mind, it's fair to ask whetherPrieur's vestidas existed in Neza thirty years ago. If so, how differentwere they? With reduced possibilities to pass convincingly as a womanbefore technology makes spectacular changes possible, how did Mexican(Neza-an) men conceive of themselves and of their sexuality? Were theextravagant, but only recently 'constructed' vestidas actual vectors in achanging attitude towards sexuality and/or views towards masculinity andfemininity?

One of its kind.
Mema's house is an excellent description of the life styles of several homosexual men in Ciudad Nezahualcoyotl, one on Mexico City's poorest suburban areas. Although the book contains information compiled during thelate 80's and early 90's, it is still a very valuable source of informationconcerning the acceptance and the intolerance of homosexuality in thissocial context. The author has an admirable ability for synthesis andclarity in her writing. ... Read more

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Guidance for counselors working with transsexuals: men who want to be women, and women who want to be men. While transsexualism has always been part of the human experience, only recently have people "trapped in the wrong body" sought psychological care in large numbers. This book provides background about this controversial condition, enabling clinicians to help people undergoing gender transition as they deal with hormonal treatments, legal dilemmas, surgical options, family destabilization, and work-related issues. ... Read more

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cultural and historical overview w/some tx info
This is a good overview of transgender/transsexual people, with emphasis on cultural and historical information.Treatment recommendations are easily grasped and emphasize a multidisiplinary approach.Also has the Standards of Care for Gender Identity Disorders at the back.Clients who have read it liked it.

The one book on transgenderism you should be sure to read
Gender Loving Care - Dr. Ettner's second book - is supposed to be for psychologists and other helping professionals dealing with transgendered clients. I find it is also very interesting for this lay person, and completely accessible, with little or no trade jargon used. It is a structured, fact filled book, but still a relatively fast read.

While it includes some information about all who are transgendered, it tends to focus on the transsexual subset. The first half of the book (dealing with historical perspectives, prevalence, and causes) is a fantastic resource for anyone wanting to learn more about transgenderism. The discussion of origins and causes of transgenderism is by far the best description of the etiology of transgenderism that I have seen. The second half of the book is probably of more use for helping professionals, but still quite useful for the lay person wanting to learn more about the condition and about how it is viewed and dealt with by professionals.

defining the transsexual
Dr. Ettner gets right to the heart of the matter, so this is a must for the transsexual, their friends and family. You will find you are not terminally unique. We are blessed to be who we are and this book will guideyou on your journey. It has given me the direction and courage I sodesperately needed and I hope it may do the same for you.

Excellent, Highly Recomended
Randi's knowledge of the subject matter, and her capabilities as an author makes this an outstanding book on the facinating subject of gender identity disorders.I would recomend Gender Loving Care to the health careprofessional, as well as anyone else interested in learning more about thistopic. ... Read more

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This 1996 collection of essays deals with the ways in which sex and gender are socially organized and conceptually construed in various cultures. Its scope is not limited to a series of cross-cultural issues of sex roles and sexual status but rather encompasses a wide range of sex-related practices and beliefs. Ceremonial virginity in Polynesian ritual androgynism in New Guinea, the valorization of young African bachelors, and fantasies of male self-sufficiency in South American myth are among the subjects discussed. Taken in their totality, these essays demonstrate that cultural notions sexuality and gender are seldom straightforward extrapolations of biological facts but are the outcome of social and cultural processes. The book is not only a compendium of symbolic approaches to gender but is also an important statement of the theoretical directions in anthropological research in this field. ... Read more

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SEX-ROLES AND GENDER-PERSONALITIES IN OTHER CULTURES
Sherry B. Ortner & Harriet Whitehead, editors
Sexual Meanings:
The Cultural Construction of Gender and Sexuality

(Cambridge, UK: Cambridge UP, 1981) 435 pages

A standard work on anthropology,
looking into the sexual customs and patterns of simple tribes.
Each culture begins with the biological differences between the sexes
and builds elaborate marriage and kinship systems from those facts.

If you would like to discover other, perhaps better, books,
search the Internet for the following:
"SEX ROLE---Bibliography of books".

If you are interested in a different slant,
search the Internet for the following exact words:
"Best Books on Gender-Personality".

James Leonard Park, creator of the Gender-Pattern Chart. ... Read more

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Lets talk about sex...
Tiefler talks about sex with humor and compassion, revealing much about how sex is viewed in contemporary society, what our views about sex have to say about us, and perhaps most interestingly (and provocatively) provides the reader with a new interpretation of sex, as she attempts to provide it in a social and psychological context rather than a merely biological one.

The essays are not always accessable for the lay reader, as a number of Tiefler's writings are scientific in nature.However her underlying assertion that sex and our attitudes and peceptions of it are constantly changing and and having meaning attatched to it was thought - provoking. A bit dense at points, the book is a worthwhile read, as it gives one much to think about our own attitudes on sex in particular and gender in general.

Excellent steps in moving to a new discourse of sexuality.
Leonore Tiefer writes, "what has irritated me most about the mystification surrounding sexuality has been the persistent but peculiar idea that `sex is natural' - that is, that sex is a simple anduniversal biologicalfunction that, without anytraining, all humans should experience, enjoy,and perform in roughly the same way." Tiefer points outthat just asmusic, full of passion, thought andrhythm, is more than fingers on apiano, sexuality, produced through human interactions and situations, ismore than biology. With analogies such as this, Tieferputs into contexthistorical views on sexuality inorder to explore contemporary sexualattitudes.By toppling the long-standing belief that sexualityisbiology, Tiefer hopes to relive the anxietyaround sexuality. Her essays,full of humor andon-target pop culture references, help explainmany ofthe assumptions that hinder the strugglefor reproductive freedom. ... Read more

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This book illustrates how young Japanese males perform their gender identity and sexuality. It compromises a comprehensive theoretical and practical reading of sexuality education as well as a comparative analysis that brings about a global perspective of the current issues concerning disease, sex, gender, and education for young people. An important resource for Japan specialists, this study will also be valuable for scholars in sociology, education, gender studies, and psychology. ... Read more

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These timely, cutting-edge articles allow instructors to bring their students real-world perspective—from a reliable source—about today's most current and pressing issues in gender psychology. ... Read more

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Hollywood has devoted big budgets and established stars to films about controversial issues in the last ten years. Identities considered marginal have come into prominence on the big screen. The authors of this title look at the issues raised by these developments, bring together debates in identity politics with film studies, and launch an innovative theorization of the cinematic representation of identity.

Movies from Forrest Gump to Philadelphia, from Malcolm X to Falling Down have been specifically concerned with multiculturalism and identity politics. This book is concerned with the meanings put into circulation by these mainstream films and audiences' reactions to them. It provides an accessible introduction to issues such as arguments over positive and negative images and the relationship between cultural representation and political power in American life. ... Read more

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In spite of its central importance in human relationships, the study of sexuality has been somewhat neglected by social psychologists. This reader brings together a fascinating selection of articles which examine sex as a social phenomenon: as a group of behavior patterns that people engage in together, under the influence of social pressures, and indeed as ways that people relate to each other. ... Read more

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Sexual Coercion in Dating Relationships represents the next generation of research in the area of sexual coercion. This collection of critical analyses of current research and possible directions for future research benefits all researchers, counselors, and educators who need to thoroughly understand research efforts in this field. The clear analyses allow readers to evaluate critical issues and progress in the field to date.

Outside of research and feminist communities, sexual coercion is frequently minimized and too often stereotyped. The words “sexual coercion” (synonyms with “sexual aggression” and “sexual assault”) conjure in the minds of many the image of a deranged man attacking a woman stranger in a dark place where she should know better than to be walking alone. This and other stereotypes are challenged by the authors of Sexual Coercion in the Dating Relationship.

The chapters examine other important issues that have yet received little research attention. For example, one author tests the empirical assumptions inherent in a prominent theory about the causes of sexual coercion. Some of the authors challenge the assumption that only women are pressured or forced to engage in unwanted or nonconsensual sex. Other authors address issues related to the prevention of sexual coercion of women and challenge current conceptions of women's sexuality. Still others identify methodological problems related to research on sexual coercion, such as current methods of identifying attitudes supportive of the use of sexual coercion. All of the chapters challenge current beliefs related to the issue of sexual coercion and are designed to spur researchers and educators forward into new ground.

With the publication of this book, readers are forced to re-think their assumptions on sexual coercion with the new statistics and research on these topics:

• evaluates of a prominent theory of the causes of sexual coercion (the traditional script)
  
• examines men's and women's use of sexual influence in their dating relationships, the types of behavior men and women use to influence their partners to engage in unwanted sex, and the associated consequences for the individuals and the relationship
  
• compares men's and women's reactions to sexual coercion
  
• presents a model to predict women's resistance and evaluates effective, practical measures of prevention for women
  
• evaluates attitudes-toward-rape literature and the predictive ability of assessing attitudes
  
• critical reviews of current conceptions of women's sexuality and the need to restructure culturally endorsed attitudes in our prevention efforts
  
• reviews methodological problems plaguing many current research investigations and the political ramifications of many investigations in this area
  
  Because this book presents information related to the prevention and experience of sexual coercion, Sexual Coercion in Dating Relationships is helpful in developing long-term research and preventive programs. This sourcebook also helps researchers, expert witnesses, counselors (especially college support staff), and college and university educators provide information to students and others about sexual coercion.

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Date Wisely
If you think you told him clearly that you are not ready and he didn't seem to hear, you are not crazy. He didn't hear you. So take care of yourself. This book is researched on college age men and women. However much men may mature, many are clearly starting at a disadvantage. This book describes many test situations wherein a majority of men did not hear a woman's clear communication that she did not want sex. One way to find the men who are truly deserving to be intimate with you is to weed out those who are just not listening.

In our society it is unfortunate that men are taught that the only form of inapropriate coercion is through physical force. Practically speaking, this is all that our courts can try to enforce. Unfortunately, psychological coercion or "white" lies that lead to unwanted sex can often cause as much psychological harm as rape. I had a man say to me after such an experience, "I am sorry I did not head your request for restraint. But your body language gave you away." Although he did not physically force me, he clearly reveals the attitude of a rapist. This book clarifies the full gamut of sexual coercion beyond the obvious physical force.

This book will help you feel confident about taking the time to get to know a man before being alone with him in a private place, about communicating with him very clearly, and about believing it when he seems not to be hearing you. Any woman dating, parents and educators of young women and men, and men who love women should read this book. ... Read more

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This path-breaking study of gender and sexuality is the first to go beyond the nature/nurture debate to offer an alternate framework for considering questions of sex and sexuality.

Why do some people prefer heterosexual love while others fancy the same sex? Is sexual identity biologically determined or a product of convention? In this brilliant and provocative book, the acclaimed author of Myths of Gender argues that even the most fundamental knowledge about sex is shaped by the culture in which scientific knowledge is produced.

Drawing on astonishing real-life cases and a probing analysis of centuries of scientific research, Fausto-Sterling demonstrates how scientists have historically politicized the body. In lively and impassioned prose, she breaks down three key dualisms - sex/gender, nature/nurture, and real/constructed - and asserts that individuals born as mixtures of male and female exist as one of five natural human variants and, as such, should not be forced to compromise their differences to fit a flawed societal definition of normality.Amazon.com Review
Anyone who has been following the new brain science in thepopular press--and even those whose casual reading includes journalsalong the lines of Psychoneuroendocrinology--will be fascinatedby the puckish observations of Brown University biologist AnneFausto-Sterling, whose provocative and erudite essays easily establishthe cultural biases underlying current scientific thought ongender. She goes on to critique the science itself, exposinginconsistencies in the literature and weaknesses in the rhetorical andtheoretical structures that support new research. "One of the majorclaims I make in this book," she explains, "is that labeling someone aman or a woman is a social decision. We may use scientific knowledgeto help us make the decision, but only our beliefs about gender--notscience--can define our sex. Furthermore, our beliefs about genderaffect what kinds of knowledge scientists produce about sex in thefirst place." Whether discussing genital surgery on intersex infantsor the amorous lives of lab rats, the author is unfailingly clear andconvincing, and manages to impart humor to subjects as seeminglyunpromising as neuroanatomy and the structure of proteins. --ReginaMarler ... Read more

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Never received due to flood
I didn't receive the book by due date so I emailed the seller and she responded that her basement flooded and could not send the book. I got it somewhere else.

It's lengthy but worthwhile reading
This is an excellent book where the author discusses both the biological and social (environmental) aspects of gender to show the process of how society imprints meaning to our sexual bodies.

sex & gender
Sexing the Body is a thick book, and an important one. The section of footnotes is nearly as long as the text of the book (which can be complicated when reading; I ended up using two bookmarks). That said, it covers the part of the conversation that most of us don't have when we talk about the difference between sex and gender. I have a friend who reads my stuff - she's a feminist, and smart. But whenever I say that we don't really know if there are only two sexes, she always writes "you mean genders here?" in the margin. But no, I mean sex. I mean XX or XY. Or "with penis" or "with clitoris." And that's exactly what Anne Fausto-Sterling covers in this book: how we came to decide that there are two sexes, how (through the times) science came to that standard, and why it's wrong and when it's wrong.

The science of gender
This book is covers the science and politics of gender in areadable language. Fausto-Sterling examines biological experiments on lab animals as well as the history behind our concepts of male and female. She describes gender as an "interaction between small groups of people...[that] involves institutional rules."
It's a well thoughtout book full of useful information to anyone studying gender.

Gender seen from a particular perspective
As a transgendered person who is trying to read as much information as possible about gender, this book does supply alot of historic, scientific and theoretical background. It is another important addition to my library. That being said, I was taken aback by her comments regarding transexuals on pp 253 as a "type of human" and "stereotypical member of their sex to be".If I misunderstood the inference, I apologize.If not, I am greatly offended and wonder why marginalizing my existence supports yours. Read Judith Butler as a comparison to this work. ... Read more

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Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville. Discusses ways American society defines and shapes women's sexuality. Presents fifteen chapters covering epistemology, theory, and methods; life course development; meaning and function; and sexuality and the social order. For advanced students, researchers, and practitioners of psychology. ... Read more

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MySearchLab provides students with a complete understanding of the research process so they can complete research projects confidently and efficiently. Students and instructors with an internet connection can visit www.MySearchLab.com and receive immediate access to thousands of full articles from the EBSCO ContentSelect database. In addition, MySearchLab offers extensive content on the research process itself–including tips on how to navigate and maximize time in the campus library, a step-by-step guide on writing a research paper, and instructions on how to finish an academic assignment with endnotes and bibliography. 

Though most research in the psychology of gender highlights the differences between females and males, this supplementary collection of readings also investigates how they are alike.

With the aim of providing an accurate picture of gender, the authors have culled readings that not only explore commonalties between females and males, but also probe the unique ways that people of different races, ethnicities, social classes and sexual orientations experience gender. The result is a model that views gender in terms of thinking, feeling, and behaving as the result of a complex interplay among biological, psychological, social and cultural processes.