Female sexuality : psychology, biology and social context
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Female sexuality : psychology, biology and social context
Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1994
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Description and Table of Contents
Description
This text examines the issue of female sexuality from psychological, biological and sociological perspectives. It explores the major changes in the female life cycle: the menstrual cycle, pregnancy and postpartum, the menopause and the development of sexual orientation. The work aims to draw together the relationship between science and popular knowledge, experience and meaning, to develop a model of female sexuality.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Female sexuality - development of body and knowledge: introduction, Precilla Choi and Paula Nicolson
- female sexuality through the life cycle, Paula Nicholson
- sexual orientation in women, Christine Dancey. Part 2 Sexuality, women and hormones: sexuality through the menstrual cycle, Erin McNeill
- post-natal sexuality, Elizabeth Alder
- sexuality and the menopause, Linda Gannon. Part 3 Sexuality and everyday life: reassessing the raging hormone debate, Precilla Choi
- the psychology and biology of female sexuality, Jane Ussher.
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