Waubonsee Community College

The gender of sexuality, exploring sexual possibilities, Virginia Rutter and Pepper Schwartz

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

mapsillustrations

index present

non fiction

The gender of sexuality

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Virginia Rutter and Pepper Schwartz

The gender lens series

exploring sexual possibilities

1. Sexual desire and gender -- Desire: attraction and arousal -- Biology of desire: Nature's explanation -- The influence of hormones -- Mechanisms of arousal -- Evolutionary psychology -- Social origins of desire -- Social construction of sexuality -- Social control of sexuality -- Integrative perspective on gender and sexuality -- Sexual identity and orientation -- Continuum of desire -- Gender as the basis for sexual identity -- 2. Sexual behavior and gender -- Challenge of studying sexual behavior -- World of gender difference -- Race, ethnicity, and social class -- Gendered patterns in sexual practices -- Masturbation -- Relational sex versus recreational sex -- Fantasy and pornography -- Initiation and sexual negotiation -- Orgasm and stimulation -- Numbers of partners -- Nonmonogamy -- Consent and coercion -- 3. Uncommitted sexual relationships -- What does sexual freedom look like? -- The control of sexuality: over time and across space -- Historical change in the United States -- The shifting double standard -- The sexual revolution -- Social forces and casual sex -- Frontlash and backlash in the 1990s and beyond -- What's happening now -- Special issues: examining the continuum -- Gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender -- Bisexuality -- Transgender -- Sex practices among single people -- Getting into sex -- First intercourse -- Frequency and sex partners -- Sexual etiquette -- Heterosexual etiquette: contraception, safe sex, and abortion -- Miscommunication and sexual privilege -- Sexual coercion -- Sexual confusion -- Sexual aggression and complicated emotions -- The future of sex among singles --4. Sex and marriage -- Why do people marry? -- The social context of marriage -- Gender, ethnicity, and sexual orientation -- The "marriage script": an enactment of gender difference -- Race and the significance of marriage -- Same-sex commitment -- The importance of sex in marriage -- Commitment and passion -- Sexual frequency -- Initiation and refusal -- Same-sex pairs -- Everyday influences on committed sex -- Emotional complications for heterosexuals -- Same-sex burdens -- Concerns of older partners -- Social trends in improving committed sex -- Sex advice of the 1960s -- Advice of the 1970s: more pleasure, our way -- Advice of the 1980s: problems, problems, problems -- The 1990s and the New Millenium: desire! or desire? -- Outside temptations -- Why do people have outside sexual relationships? -- Is nonmonogamy gendered? -- Problem of sustained desire in a divorce-prone society -- Peer marriage: love between equals -- 5. The politics of sexuality -- Sex as a "political football" -- Newer sex scandals, newer themes -- Ambivalent obsession -- Politics and women's bodies -- Debates past and present -- Teenage sexuality, hooking up, and emerging adulthood -- Adolescence and families -- The state of teen sexual behavior -- Sexuality education -- Teen health -- Sexual assault -- Feminist versus patriarchal positions -- Strange bedfellows -- False prophets, false accusations, and true lies -- Same-sex marriage -- Where have we been? The legal journey -- Where are we now? Laws and attitudes -- The debates -- Same-sex parenting: does gender matter? -- Legal precedent -- 6. But how do we use what we know? Questions and answers -- Sexual function -- Sexual orientation -- Sexual harassment and violence