The Female Psyche And Sex

Author : Cindy M. Meston,David M. Buss
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09-29
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781429955225

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Why Women Have Sex by Cindy M. Meston,David M. Buss Pdf

An unparalleled exploration of the mysteries underlying women's sexuality that rivals the culture-shifting Kinsey Report, from two of America's leading research psychologists Do women have sex simply to reproduce or display their affection? When University of Texas at Austin clinical psychologist Cindy M. Meston and evolutionary psychologist David M. Buss joined forces to investigate the underlying sexual motivations of women, what they found astonished them. Through the voices of real women, Meston and Buss reveal the motivations that guide women's sexual decisions and explain the deep-seated psychology and biology that often unwittingly drive women's desires—sometimes in pursuit of health or pleasure, or sometimes for darker, disturbing reasons that a woman may not fully recognize. Drawing on more than a thousand intensive interviews conducted solely for the book, as well as their pioneering research on physiological response and evolutionary emotions, Why Women Have Sex uncovers an amazingly complex and nuanced portrait of female sexuality. They delve into the use of sex as a defensive tactic against a mate's infidelity (protection), as a ploy to boost self-confidence (status), as a barter for gifts or household chores (resource acquisition), or as a cure for a migraine headache (medication). Why Women Have Sex stands as the richest and deepest psychological understanding of female sexuality yet achieved and promises to inform every woman's (and her partner's) awareness of her relationship to sex and her sexuality.

Author : Laura Kipnis
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2009-03-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780307495440

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The Female Thing by Laura Kipnis Pdf

From the author of the acclaimed Against Love comes a pointed, audacious, and witty examination of the state of the female psyche in the post-post-feminist world of the twenty-first century. Women remain caught between feminism and femininity, between self-affirmation and an endless quest for self-improvement, between playing an injured party and claiming independence. Rather than blaming the usual suspects—men, the media—Kipnis takes a hard look at culprits closer to home, namely women themselves. Kipnis serves up the gory details of the mutual displeasure between men and women in painfully hilarious detail. Is anatomy destiny after all? An ambitious and original reassessment of feminism and women’s ambivalence about it, The Female Thing breathes provocative new life into that age-old question.

Author : Katherine Rowland
Publisher : Seal Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781580058346

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The Pleasure Gap by Katherine Rowland Pdf

American culture is more sexually liberal than ever. But compared to men, women's sexual pleasure has not grown: Up to 40 percent of American women experience the sexual malaise clinically known as low sexual desire. Between this low desire, muted pleasure, and experiencing sex in terms of labor rather than of lust, women by the millions are dissatisfied with their erotic lives. For too long, this deficit has been explained in terms of women's biology, stress, and age. In The Pleasure Gap, Katherine Rowland rejects the idea that women should settle for diminished pleasure; instead, she argues women should take inequality in the bedroom as seriously as we take it in the workplace and understand its causes and effects. Drawing on extensive research and interviews with more than one hundred women and dozens of sexual health professionals, Rowland shows that the pleasure gap is neither medical malady nor psychological condition but rather a result of our culture's troubled relationship with women's sexual expression. This provocative exploration of modern sexuality makes a case for closing the gap for good.

Author : Londa Schiebinger
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1991-03
Category : History
ISBN : 067457625X

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The Mind Has No Sex? by Londa Schiebinger Pdf

A reexamination of the origins of modern science; discovers a forgotten heritage of women scientists and probes the cultural and historical forces that continue to shape the course of scientific scholarship and knowledge.

Author : Alfred C. Kinsey,Wardell B. Pomeroy,Clyde E. Martin,Paul H. Gebhard
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 885 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1998-05-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780253019240

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Sexual Behavior in the Human Female by Alfred C. Kinsey,Wardell B. Pomeroy,Clyde E. Martin,Paul H. Gebhard Pdf

The groundbreaking Kinsey Report study on female sexuality from “one of the most influential figures in American intellectual history” (The New York Times). Originally published in 1953, the material presented in Sexual Behavior in the Human Female was derived from personal interviews with nearly 6,000 women; from studies in sexual anatomy, physiology, psychology, and endocrinology. The study revealed the incidence and frequency with which women participate in various types of sexual activity and how such factors as age, decade of birth, and religious adherence are reflected in patterns of sexual behavior. The authors make comparisons of female and male sexual activities and investigate the factors which account for the similarities and differences between female and male patterns of behavior and provide some measure of the social significance of the various types of sexual behavior. “[It] shocked the world in 1953 with its explicit revelations. Countries banned it. Churches berated it. Some scholars scoffed . . . but it was an instant success, selling 270,000 copies in less than a month . . . [Kinsey] made headlines around the globe with his findings on such things as masturbation, sex before marriage and adultery.”—CBSNews.com

Author : Frank Wesley,Claire Wesley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015010416330

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Sex-role Psychology by Frank Wesley,Claire Wesley Pdf

Author : Lisa M. Diamond
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0674026241

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Sexual Fluidity by Lisa M. Diamond Pdf

Is love “blind” when it comes to gender? For women, it just might be. This unsettling and original book offers a radical new understanding of the context-dependent nature of female sexuality. Lisa M. Diamond argues that for some women, love and desire are not rigidly heterosexual or homosexual but fluid, changing as women move through the stages of life, various social groups, and, most important, different love relationships.This perspective clashes with traditional views of sexual orientation as a stable and fixed trait. But that view is based on research conducted almost entirely on men. Diamond is the first to study a large group of women over time. She has tracked one hundred women for more than ten years as they have emerged from adolescence into adulthood. She summarizes their experiences and reviews research ranging from the psychology of love to the biology of sex differences. Sexual Fluidity offers moving first-person accounts of women falling in and out of love with men or women at different times in their lives. For some, gender becomes irrelevant: “I fall in love with the person, not the gender,” say some respondents.Sexual Fluidity offers a new understanding of women’s sexuality—and of the central importance of love.

Author : Jennifer K. Bosson,Joseph A. Vandello,Camille E. Buckner
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 631 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-17
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781506331331

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The Psychology of Sex and Gender by Jennifer K. Bosson,Joseph A. Vandello,Camille E. Buckner Pdf

The Psychology of Sex and Gender meets the needs of gender science today, providing students with fresh, contemporary examples, balanced coverage of men and women, and a grounding in psychological science. The dynamic author team of Jennifer K. Bosson, Joseph A. Vandello, and Camille E. Buckner presents classic and cutting-edge research findings, historical contexts, examples from popular culture, cross-cultural universality and variation, and coverage of nonbinary identities, for a full, vibrant picture of the field. In keeping with the growing scholarship of teaching and learning (SOTL), the authors ask students in every chapter to identify and evaluate their own myths and misconceptions, participate in real-world debates on topics at the forefront of the field, and stop to think critically along the way. Students will be talking about this book long after they finish the course, carrying new skills forward into their lives and future careers.

Author : Sue Cox
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Feminism
ISBN : UOM:39015002621301

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Female Psychology by Sue Cox Pdf

Author : Peter B. Anderson,Cindy Struckman-Johnson
Publisher : Guilford Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1998-06-22
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1572301651

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Sexually Aggressive Women by Peter B. Anderson,Cindy Struckman-Johnson Pdf

Working from a range of theoretical perspectives, contributors to this text challenge prevailing stereotypes of women as passive or resistant participants in heterosexual interaction and men as initiators or aggressors. Like men, the book proposes, many women are clearly interested in sex and some are sexually aggressive. Bringing attention to ethical, political and conceptual questions surrounding this area of inquiry, the volume offers insights that seek to enhance clinical work and set directions for future research. It should be of interest to all scholars and students of psychology, sociology, human sexuality, and gender studies as well as mental health professionals in a range of settings.

Author : Richard D. Ashmore,Frances K. Del Boca
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781483216201

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The Social Psychology of Female-Male Relations by Richard D. Ashmore,Frances K. Del Boca Pdf

The Social Psychology of Female-Male Relations: A Critical Analysis of Central Concepts covers the thoughts, feelings, and behaviours of individuals in social interaction and explicitly considers women and men in relation to one another - as individuals, as representatives of social categories, and as significant social groups. Chapter One lays out the parameters of the social psychology of female-male relations. Chapter Two contains two major insights: that gender identity is a complex, multifaceted construct and that the structure and degree of differentiation of gender identity develop and change over the life course. Chapters Three and Four present a relatively general cognitive social-psychological framework for two important constructs, sex stereotypes and gender-related attitudes. Chapter Five offers a critique of analyses that explain the behavior of women and men in close, personal relationships in terms of sex differences in the individual dispositions of the participants. Chapter Six presents a strong and straightforward critique of the current usage of the term sex role to describe a global set of behavioral prescriptions that apply to all women and to all men. Chapter Seven presents a comprehensive review of research on gender-related patterns of behavior in task groups that cannot be found elsewhere. The concluding chapter summarizes points made in earlier chapters and offers a set of notes toward a theory of female-male relations. Social scientists (especially, psychologists, sociologists, and anthropologists) doing research on women, on men, or on women and men in relationships or in social interaction.

Author : Jane M. Ussher
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0813524989

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Fantasies of Femininity by Jane M. Ussher Pdf

In Fantasies of Femininity, Jane Ussher focuses on unraveling the contradictory visions of feminine sexuality: the fact that representations of the definition of woman seethe with sexuality yet for centuries women have been condemned for exploring their own sexual desires. In her quest for the sources of feminine representation, Ussher interviewed dozens of women - as well as some men - and combed popular media - from Seventeen to Cosmopolitan and Dallas to Donahue - to identify what shapes women's symbolic images of sex and femininity. Ussher argues that women have effectively resisted and subverted these archetypal fantasies of femininity, and in the process of so doing, reframed the very boundaries of sex. In this way, she exposes as myth much of what we think we know about "woman" and about "sex."

Author : Ellyn Kaschak,Leonore Tiefer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 0789016826

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A New View of Women's Sexual Problems by Ellyn Kaschak,Leonore Tiefer Pdf

Take a new look at women's sexuality! This fascinating book looks at the wide-ranging therapeutic, social, and political implications of the new paradigm of women's sexuality. International in scope and multidisciplinary in approach, A New View of Women's Sexual Problems examines the theoretical and practical effects of the landmark document produced by the Working Group on a New View of Women's Sexuality. The book brings together gender theory, psychology, social science, and medicine in a powerful cultural critique of the reigning medical approach to women's sexual health. International experts from India, Costa Rica, Israel, the US, and many other cultures place this revolutionary idea in cultural and political context, as well as extrapolating fresh new treatment options for dealing with women's sexual problems. A New View of Women's Sexual Problems analyzes the new paradigm's implications in many fields, including: family medicine couples counseling for straight and lesbian partners STD prevention and sexual health issues sex therapy sex education feminist theory developmental psychology

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 1293 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Gender identity
ISBN : 9780122272455

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Encyclopedia of Women and Gender by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ellen Cole,Esther D Rothblum,Lillie Weiss,Rosalyn Meadow
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781317823513

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Women's Conflicts About Eating and Sexuality by Ellen Cole,Esther D Rothblum,Lillie Weiss,Rosalyn Meadow Pdf

Women’s Conflicts About Eating and Sexuality explores the strong relationships food and sex have represented to women over the years. No other book has spelled out so clearly the parallels between sex and eating nor integrated the relationship of these to women’s basic need to be loved. Today’s dilemma for women--be fat or go hungry--and the endless variations and unsatisfying solutions to this problem have contributed to the incidence of anorexia, bulimia, and obesity. The pursuit of slimness, the obsession with having the perfect body, excessive aerobicizing, and diet books ad nauseam are all part of this phenomenon. Authors in Women’s Conflicts About Eating and Sexuality skillfully discuss the parallel between women’s obsession with sex and romance in the fifties and their obsession with food today. An important book for all women, it sheds light on the complex issues facing women and devotes special attention to the career woman and the additional pressures to be slim and stay slim. The woman who reads this potentially life-changing book can examine, question, and change her behavior, using the specific step-by-step program aid included in the book. This book is for every woman who has ever worried about being too fat or too sexual. Women’s Conflicts About Eating and Sexuality will appeal to women of all ages--young women and their mothers will be fascinated by the parallels between sexual obsessions of thirty years ago and the eating obsessions of today. This healing book will particularly attract single career women for whom sex and relationships are fraught with complications. Counselors and therapists will find this book an excellent resource in their work with helping women. It is also a good auxiliary text for courses in Women’s Studies focusing on psychology and history of women and the sociology of women and eating disorders.