The Gender of Sexuality: Exploring Sexual Possibilities (Gender Lens Series) - Hardcover

Virginia Rutter; Pepper Schwartz

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0742570037 ISBN 13: 9780742570030

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (UK), 2011

Synopsis

The Gender of Sexuality serves as a fun and informative guide on how to approach the topics of gender and sexuality—two areas fraught with stereotypes and misinformation. The second edition of this book features significant new material on the changing status of gender, same sex marriage, and transgender. After introducing key concepts in gender and sexuality, the authors explore topics such as sexual desire, the role of biology, sexual behavior, uncommitted sexual relationships and “hooking up,” marriage and cohabitation, and the politics of sexuality. Examples from popular culture, film, and media invite readers to engage with key concepts. This is an ideal book for courses on gender, sexuality, marriage and family, or social problems.

About this title

About the Author

Virginia Rutter is professor of sociology at Framingham State University. She is a senior fellow of the Council on Contemporary Families and an editor and columnist at Girl w/ Pen, where she writes about gender and sexuality.

Pepper Schwartz is professor of sociology at the University of Washington, past chairman of the Board of the National Sexuality Resource Center, past president of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality, and past president of the National Sexuality Resource Center. Author of numerous books, she is a senior fellow at the Council of Contemporary Families and is the Love, Sex, and Relationship ambassador for AARP.

Edition details

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (UK)
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0742570037
• ISBN 13: 9780742570030
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 288