ESW 255/PSY 255: Human Sexuality

A step-by-step guide to Foucault's History of Sexuality Volume I, The Will to KnowledgeIn the first volume of his History of Sexuality, The Will to Knowledge, Foucault weaves together the most influential theoretical account of sexuality since Freud. Mark Kelly systematically unpacks the intricacies of Foucault's dense and sometimes confusing exposition, in a straightforward way, putting it in its historical and theoretical context.This is both a guide for the reader new to the text and one that offers new insights to those already familiar with Foucault's work.

"Sexual Assault in the Military serves as an easy-to-use, comprehensive reference guide for military members and their families about sexual assault and harassment. While more and more attention focuses on getting victims to report their abuse, accessing information can still be difficult for service-members. Understanding that the military is making changes, and offering support is a necessary step towards how best to treat these cases and how to get help and justice..."

In Hunting Girls, Kelly Oliver examines popular culture's fixation on representing young women as predators and prey and the implication that violence--especially sexual violence--is an inevitable, perhaps even celebrated, part of a woman's maturity.

"...Explores the psychological dimensions of campus sexual assault as it affects emotional health, physical health, career development, and self-concept * Integrates three main perspectives often lacking in other books on the topic--legal, social science, and human resource management..."

What determines whether people are sexually attracted to men, women, or both? Human sexuality researchers often find themselves faced with questions that entail conceptual issues for which their professional training may not have prepared them. This work aims to provide that guidance to students and professionals interested in the empirical study of human sexuality from behavioural and social scientific perspectives. It addresses issues inherent to both general social scientific and specific human sexuality research. This resource offers a multidisciplinary examination of the specific methodological issues inherent in conducting human sexuality research. It is intended to help enrich the communication between the various disciplines involved in human sexuality research. It addresses those issues unique to human sexuality research, such as: how to measure sexuality; how to design studies, recruit participants, and collect data; how to consider cultural and ethical issues; and how to perform and interpret statistical analyses.

"Although sexuality is an integral part of close romantic relationships, research linking these two constructs has been less systematic and less developed than other areas pertaining to close relationships. To date, researchers in communication, sociology, family studies, psychology, and psychiatry, among other disciplines, have made significant advances in both of these broad fields. The editors' goal is to integrate this research into one volume with the hope that the book will serve as a forum for enhancement of dialogue about the centrality of sexual issues in close relationships. They bring together major scholars from the diversity of fields working on close relationship topics to examine past contributions and new directions in sexuality. The emphasis is on theoretical integration and stimulation, methodological rigor, and critical analysis of what is known about sexuality in close relationships. relationships, this volume explores: the changing meanings and issues of sexuality within close relationships; early sexual experiences in dating and how they affect late life sexuality; how life's everyday stresses impact sexuality and general satisfaction with closeness; the affect of postpartum depression on sexuality within a close relationship; and the relationship between control, power, anger, as well as revenge and sexual processes in couples..."

This contemporary account of male fertility provides a much needed bridge between those seeking to understand the subject from an evolutionary and biological perspective and those with clinical responsibility for the investigation and treatment of infertility. Accordingly, the first half of the book deals with the evolutionary aspects of male reproduction and sperm competition, sperm production and delivery in man and other animals, spermatogenesis and epididymal function, sperm transport in the female tract and the apparent decline in human sperm count. The second part of the book puts greater emphasis on clinical problems and opens with a discussion of intracytoplasmic sperm injection, its value and limitations. This is followed by a review of modern developments in the genetics of male fertility and proceeds to a further chapter on the role of surgical procedures used in the treatment. Semen analysis is critically reviewed and the molecular techniques now being used in preimplantation diagnosis and in the study of mitochondrial inheritance are fully described. Taken together these chapters, written by an international team of authors, illustrate the breadth of vision needed to tackle the problem of male fertility.

This book is all about reproductive genetics, a sociological concept developed to define the use of DNA-based technologies in the medical management and supervision of reproduction and pregnant women. In a searching analysis, Elizabeth Ettorre uncovers the hidden social processes involved in the development of these technologies. Focussing on prenatal screening, she explores how the key concepts of gender and the body are intertwined with the process of building genetic knowledge and some of the unintended consequences for women. These include the injection of biology into social relationships and the development of a gendered discourse of shame and stigmatisation in which the perfect body becomes idealised and new conceptions of disability are shaped. It becomes clear that the modernist tradition of scientific disinterestedness is being replaced by a new ethic: the making of moral judgements by scientists. Reproductive Genetics, Gender and the Body draws on interviews with European medical, legal and nursing professionals and raises important issues around the gendered, female body, the site of genetic capital. It challenges professional and scholar alike to grapple with and think through their responsibilities in this complex field where the competing issues have yet to be resolved.