Ethnic Variations in Gender Roles Throughout this textbook we have focused primarily on gender assumptions that prevail in the traditional mainstream—White Americans of European origin. Here we look briefly at gender roles among three different ethnic groups: Hispanic Americans, African Americans, and Asian Americans. Traditional Hispanic American gender roles are epitomized by the cultural stereotypes […]
День: 04.11.2015
Testicles as an aphrodisiac
Almost two thousand years ago the Latin writer Pliny recommended the eating of testicles in cases of poor sexual performance. Testes are on the menu in many countries. In Spain this delicacy is called cojones (with the same connotations of courage and manliness as English ‘balls’). Fighting bulls from the arenas are of course the […]
Holding It Together
“I used to think of us as a couple of really bright, attractive, well — liked people,” Seth said softly, at the end of my interview with him, “but the last three years have been tense. When Гт doing an eleven-hour day, Гт sure Гт no fun. When Jessica is bummed out, shes awful to […]
Preventing HIV? Medical Discourses and Invisible Women
In east and southern Africa, increasing numbers of people are becoming aware of the differences in prevalence of AIDS and STDs between circumcised and uncircumcised men, and they are taking action. Male circumcision is increasingly recommended by traditional healers. Private clinics that specialize in male circumcision, many of which are run by people with minimum […]
SEX MACHINES: Book Talk, Slide Show & Machine Play Party!
Masters and Johnson, it turns out, are not the only sex — machine game in town. An entire subculture exists, with enthusiasts all over the country trading tips on Internet listservs. With the 2006 publishing of Sex Machines: Photographs and Interviews, they even have their own coffee-table book. Coincidentally, a few days after the dispiriting […]
You Can’t Stonewall the Children
Certain vestiges of Jessica’s earlier strategy remained. Although she often articulated her words hesitantly, as if trying to see clearly through a dense fog, the fog vanished suddenly when she spoke of her children’s feelings about Seth: both children felt cheated of time with their father. In this the Stein children differed from neighboring children […]
How often and how soon?
‘If in the first year they are together, a couple put a bean in a pot every time they make love, afterwards they will need a whole lifetime of marriage to empty the pot again if each time they make love after that first year they take a bean out of the pot,’ goes a […]
Women in Information. Communication Technologies
Olca Surgevil Dokuz Eylul University, TurkeyMustafa F. Ozbilgin Brunei University, UK & Universite Paris-Dauphine, France INTRODUCTION Individual participation in the information economy is affected by a large number of variables such as education, skill, income, race / ethnicity, language, gender and disability (OECD, 1999). Some of these variables such as education and skill are considered […]
SEX in Real Life
Female Genital Self-Examination genital self-examination can teach a woman about her body and make her more comfortable with her genitals. Many female health problems can be identified when changes are detected in the internal or external sexual organs; therefore, selfexamination has an important health function as well. Begin by examining the outside of your genitals; […]
Poglqdy na istotq zboczen plciowych
Na poczgtku XIX w. zboczenia plciowe uwazano za objaw zwyrodnienia umyslowego. Ponadto uznawano je za grzech і wyraz „pol^czenia si? z szatanem". K. Ideler (1848) przeciwstawial si? religijnej і demonologicznej „epidemii” zboczen plciowych і uwazal je za chorob?, a nie za „rebeli? szatana przeciwko Bogu”. Moreau de Tours (1887) traktowal zboczenie plciowe jako zaburzenia b? […]