The Emergence of Male Heterosexuality in Modern America
This work draws on a wide range of sources (movies, advertisements, sex confession magazines, letters, diaries, social hygienists, sex manuals and Freudian popularisers) to examine the ideology that has defined modern American manhood in sexual terms.
The Emergence of Male Heterosexuality in Modern America
This work draws on a wide range of sources (movies, advertisements, sex confession magazines, letters, diaries, social hygienists, sex manuals and Freudian popularisers) to examine the ideology that has defined modern American manhood in sexual terms.
The topic of adolescent pregnancy and childbearing encompasses issues related to sexual activity, development and parenting, each with its own consequences. This volume integrates these issues by examining research from diverse perspectives: the authors discuss the biological, sociocultural and interpersonal forces that impinge on adolescents. The volume focuses on patterns of sexual activity, contraceptive use, abortion, single-parenthood, adolescent relationships, prenatal care and interventions to prevent unwanted adolescent pregnancies.
Presents lovemaking as healthy, natural, tender, romantic, wholesome, fulfilling and joyful tribute to the goodness of sex, incorporating art, poetry, and commentary.
This edited collection of articles, many appearing in print for the first time, links the study of gender with the study of organizations. Recent critiques of organizational theory have pointed out that gender issues have a great and previously unexamined impact on organizational structure and performance. The book addresses this issue by bringing together the field's most influential thinkers and writers.
This fascinating volume focuses on courtship, paying particular attention to the differences between relationship and courtship development and deterioration. The authors describe factors that affect the later course of marriage, trace historical roots of courtship, discuss models of courtship that have guided research in this area and examine circumstantial factors that discriminate between stable and unstable premarital relationships. They also explore the `dark side' of courtship - violence between dating partners - and reveal the processes involved in the dissolution phase of premarital relationships. The volume concludes with a look at the future of courtship as an institution and suggestions for further research.
This book addresses a key set of issues at the overlap between feminism, sociology and cultural studies. A central theme of the book is an engagement with feminist theory and practice, its relationship to sociological and cultural analysis, and its development over time from the late 1970s to the present day. Within this context, the book explores changing ideas and experiences of youth in contemporary society. Particular attention is paid to recent concern with child abuse and its treatment in the public arena, to the family, sexuality, and education. A final section of the book examines the relationship of youth culture to consumerism, advertising and identity.
Beginning with Tennyson's In Memoriam and continuing by way of Hopkins and Swinburne to the novels of Oscar Wilde and Thomas Hardy, Richard Dellamora draws on journals, letters, censored texts, and pornography to examine the cultural construction of masculinity in Victorian literature. Central to the struggle over the meaning of masculine desire ......
This volume provides an explanation of contemporary sex stereotypes and the degree to which they prevail in different cultures. The authors provide data that covers 30 countries, testing both children and adults. They examine their findings from three theoretical perspectives: affective meanings, ego studies and psychological needs. Finally, they examine the practical implications of cultural sex stereotypes. The revised edition includes the findings of additional studies employing the authors' sex stereotypes assessment methods which have been conducted since the publication of the original edition in 1982. In addition, new adult sex stereotypes data from Singapore and Portugal have been added to Appendix A, and comparison variable data for these two countries have been added to Appendix D.
