Understanding Human Sexuality (Seventh Canadian Edition)

Understanding Human Sexuality has been widely recognized for its comprehensive and multidisciplinary coverage, its commitment to excellent scholarship, inclusion of meaningful and current Canadian content, and its accessibility and ability to engage students. Content is supported by research so that students feel confident that what they are learning is fact-based. Content also represents diversity of human sexuality along many dimensions including age, gender identity, sexual orientation and identity, ethnicity within Canada and in cultures around the world.

E. Sandra Byers is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychology at the University of New Brunswick. She was honoured by UNB with a University Research Scholar Award in 2008. She created the human sexuality course at the University of New Brunswick in 1979 and has taught it annually since then. She is the author or co-author of more than 100 journal articles and book chapters, and has supervised the thesis research of 41 students. Much of her research has been in the areas of sexual satisfaction, sexual communication, sexual violence, and attitudes toward sexual health education. She also has a private practice in clinical psychology specializing in the treatment of sexual problems and concerns, and regularly teaches a graduate seminar on sex therapy. She has won several awards, most recently the Distinguished Scientific Contributions Award from the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality in 2009, and the Distinguished Contributions to Psychology as a Profession Award from the Canadian Psychological Association in 2010. She is a past president of the Canadian Sex Research Forum, a fellow of the Canadian Psychological Association and the Society of the Scientific Study of Sexuality, a member of the Advisory Board of the Sex Information and Education Council of Canada, an editorial board member of two sexuality journals, and the founding director of the Muriel McQueen Fergusson Centre for Family Violence Research. To learn more about Dr. Byers and her research, you can visit her website at www.unbf.ca/arts/psychology/faculty/s-byers.html

Janet Shibley Hyde, is a Professor of Psychology and Women's Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, received her education at Oberlin College and the University of California, Berkeley. She has taught a course in human sexuality since 1974, first at Bowling Green State University, then at Denison University, and now at the University of Wisconsin. Her research interests are in gender differences and gender development in childhood and adolescence.

John D. DeLamater, Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He created the human sexuality course at the University of Wisconsin in 1975 and has since taught it regularly. His current research and writing are focused on the effects of life-course transitions on sexuality. He is a Fellow of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality and the 2002 recipient of the Kinsey Award from the Society for Career Contributions to Sex Research.