Research Catalog

Title

Female sexuality : psychology, biology and social context / editors, Precilla Y.L. Choi, Paula Nicolson.

Author

Choi, Precilla Y. L.

Publication

New York ; London : Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1994.

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Details

Additional Authors

Nicolson, Paula.

Description

xi, 180 pages; 22 cm

Summary

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.

Subject

• Women > Sexual behavior
• Women > Psychology
• Sociobiology
• Women
• Hormones
• Menstrual cycle
• Menopause
• Women
• Sexual Behavior
• Hormones
• Menstrual Cycle
• Menopause
• women (female humans)
• hormone
• Sociobiology
• Women > Psychology
• Women > Sexual behavior
• Sexualverhalten
• Frau
• Seksualiteit
• Vrouwen
• Psychologische aspecten
• Biologische aspecten
• Sociale beïnvloeding

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

pt. I. Sexuality and the female body : is anatomy destiny? Anatomy and destiny : sexuality and the female body / Paula Nicolson -- Sexual orientation in women / Christine P. Dancey -- pt. II. Sexuality, women and hormones. Blood, sex and hormones : a theoretical review of women's sexuality over menstrual cycle / Erin McNeill -- Postnatal sexuality / Beth Alder -- Sexuality and menopause / Linda Gannon -- pt. III. Women's sexuality and everyday life. Women's raging hormones / Precilla Y.L. Choi -- Theorizing female sexuality : social constructionist and post-structuralist accounts / Jane M. Ussher.

ISBN

• 0745014127
• 9780745014128
• 0133206726
• 9780133206722

LCCN

95210791

OCLC

• ocm30896360
• 30896360
• SCSB-2066707

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library