The sexual identity available to women in general is conflicted and constrained. Across the lifespan, narrow bands of identity are offered to women. For instance, adolescent girls’ developing sexuality is considered problematic (see chapter 5, this volume, by Welsh, Rostosky, & Kawaguchi). According to traditional sex-role socialization, girls and young women should be virtually asexual […]
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Recommendations for Professional Societies
Professional societies in science and engineering disciplines should: 9. Collect data on the career tracks of their members. This study identified many differences among disciplines that warrant investigation. Why, for example, do biology and chemistry have disproportionately smaller applicant pools of women for faculty positions? (Finding 3-3) And why are women in electrical engineering and […]
Images of Menopause
As a physical and biological marker of aging, menopause is most often portrayed as a stressful, disruptive, and negative experience in women’s lives. This creates a certain angst and feeling of impending loss when contemplating menopause, expressed by one woman thus: “I don’t want to go through the rest of my life feeling that I […]
Mongolia
Mongolia is an inland country whose population is 2,500,000 where many people live a nomadic life (see also Bille’s and Carlson’s chapters in this volume). The have only been five reported cases ofHIV/AIDS since 1992 and three of them are still alive. UNAIDS estimates that the number of people infected with HIV was less than […]
Uspolecznienie seksualnosci
W procesie uspolecznienia seksualnosci zasadniczij rol? odgrywa przy — swajanie sobie przez czlowieka obowigzu&cych w spoleczehstwie norm, ktore zastosowane w odniesieniu do aktywnosci seksualnej odpowiednio j$ modyfikujq і ograniczajjt. Celem tak rozumianego uspolecznienia seksualnosci jest stworzenie odpowiednich warunkow do harmonijnego wspolzycia mi? dzyludzkiego oraz zacho — wanie przez jednostk? autonomii opartej na normach obowiqzuj^cych w […]
Nderstanding Sexuality in Africa: Diversity and Contextualised Dividuality
Jo Helle-Valle Introduction This chapter is basically an argument about how to understand and explain sexuality in Africa. It is, needless to say, a highly complex and controversial issue and hence needs some initial qualifications. First, is it at all reasonable to speak of an ‘African sexuality’? Some say yes, others heatedly no. My position […]
Family Life
Traditionally, a family has been considered to consist of a heterosexual couple and their children, but many forms of family life exist in contemporary society. Surveys indicate that between 45% and 80% of lesbians and between 40% and 60% of gay men are currently in a steady relationship, and many have long-term cohabiting relationships (National […]
THEORETICAL DEVELOPMENT
In existing models of impression formation, the perceiver is the person forming an impression, while the target is the person about whom the impression is formed. People form impressions about others based on primary (or direct) and secondary (or indirect) sources of information. Primary sources of information include personal interactions (face-to-face or otherwise) including both […]
Differences Between Gays and Lesbians in Sexual Attitude and Behavior
Homosexual men and women differ in the average number of their sexual partners. Lesbians are likely to have had far fewer sexual partners, and lesbian couples are much more likely than male couples to have monogamous relationships (Dube, 2000; Roth — blum, 2000). Lesbians associate emotional closeness with sex more than do gay men, a […]
Sexual Fantasy: Enhancement or Unfaithfulness?
Over the last few decades, views about sexual fantasy have been changing. Sigmund Freud believed that only sexually unsatisfied people fantasized about sex. Today, many researchers believe that not only are sexual fantasies normal and healthy, but they may be a driving force behind human sexuality. Liberal attitudes and more sexual experience have been found […]