SEXUALITY IN AMERICA; Understannding Our Cultural Values and Behavior

Koch, PhD, Patricia Barthalow and David L. Weis, PhD, (eds)

ISBN 10: 0826410030 / ISBN 13: 9780826410030

Published by Continuum, New York, 1998

About this Item

xiv+346pp., foreword by Robert T. Francoeur, references and further readings, contrib. notes., index. This survey, different in breadth and depth from every other report on sexuality in America, offers a convenient, richly detailed, and carefully nuanced description of virtually every aspect of American sexual behavior and values. The thirty-eight authors, all members of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality, are among the leading sex researchers in the field. Boards in nicked dust jacket. Very good.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: SEXUALITY IN AMERICA; Understannding Our Cultural Values and Behavior
• Publisher: Continuum, New York
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0826410030
• ISBN 13: 9780826410030
• Binding: Hardcover
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • SOCIOLOGY

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Synopsis

Members of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality describe virtual every aspect of American sexual behavior and values. The volume contains sections on basic premises, religious and ethnic factors, autoerotic pattern heterosexual and homosexual behaviours, cross-gendered persons, and more.

About the Author

Robert T. Francoeur, Ph.D., is a Fellow of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality and Professor Emeritus of Human Sexuality and Embryology, Fairleigh Dickinson University. He is the author or editor of many books, including a study of Pierre Teihard de Chardin, The Scent of Eros, and (as co-editor), The Continuum Complete International Encyclopedia of Sexuality.
Patricia Koch, Ph.D., is associate professor of biobehavioral health and health education at Pennsylvania State University. She is the author of Exploring Our Sexuality: An Interactive Text and is a fellow of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sex.David L. Weis. Ph.D., is associate professor of human development and family studies at Bowling Green State University, Ohio. He is associate editor of the Journal of Sex Research.