The contributors to this work shed much ligh t on the causes and settings of masculine violence. This boo k lays out the ways in which men learn violence and repeat i t and focuses on the ways men victimize women, children and other men. '
Argues that we can reduce alarming rates of sexually transmitted disease, sexual violence and abuse, and unwanted pregnancy through responsible co-operative action. This work provides an analysis of these problems which demonstrates that our sexual malaise emerged from Victorian attitudes, religious intolerance, and misconceptions about sexuality.
Sharon K. Araji and her associates examine t he familial, extrafamilial and situational factors that lead to a range of sexually aberrative behaviours in young child ren. They provide examples of a number of successful therapi es. '
In The Queen of America Goes to Washington City, Lauren Berlant focuses on the need to revitalize public life and political agency in the United States. Delivering a devastating critique of contemporary discourses of American citizenship, she addresses the triumph of the idea of private life over that of public life borne in the right-wing agenda ......
Based on a study conducted on a group of col lege students, Lear considers such topics as how sexual comm unication does and does not occur among young adults, and ho w gender and sexual orientation influence the ability to neg otiate safer sex. '
In this media driven age in which private has become public we have seen the Stonewall riots, which launched the gay rights movement, Hair on Broadway with a nude cast, art from Mapplethorpe to Madonna, AIDS and safe sex campaigns, drag gone mainstream, and adolescents engaging in sexual activity at increasingly younger ages. At the same time, ......
In this media driven age in which private has become public we have seen the Stonewall riots, which launched the gay rights movement, Hair on Broadway with a nude cast, art from Mapplethorpe to Madonna, AIDS and safe sex campaigns, drag gone mainstream, and adolescents engaging in sexual activity at increasingly younger ages. At the same time, ......
Despite the explosion of critical writing on gender and sexuality, relatively little work has focused on Latin America. The authors state that the study of sexuality in Latin America requires a break with the dominant Anglo-European model of gender.
Assesses where we are 15 years later, how far we've come and, more importantly, how far we have still to go. This book argues for the need to integrate the struggle against sexual exploitation in prostitution into broader feminist struggles and to place it, as one of several connected issues, in the forefront of the feminist agenda.
