This volume covers: changes in teenage sexual behaviours and beliefs: sexual risk-taking: body dissatisfaction: sex education: teen pregnancy: abortion: the roles of parents, peers, the media, social institutions and youth culture in adolescent sexual adjustment: the role of the internet in adolescent romance: the pros and cons of abstinence education versus harm minimization: male-female differences in desire, sexuality, motives for sex, and beliefs about romance: the existence of a sexual double standard: maladaptive aspects of sexual development, including sexual risk-taking, disease, unplanned pregnancy, and sexual coercion.
Revised and updated edition of the handbook for women, about their bodies, sexuality, and reproductive health. This new edition includes the latest information on: a) changes in the health care system, b) safer sex, c) environmental health risks, d) body image, e) local and global activism, and f) information about gender identity, sexual orientation, birth control, abortion, pregnancy and birth, perimenopause, and sexuality and sexual health as we age.
This book provides a series of windows on maternities highlighting issues of gender, bodies and space. It demonstrates the multiple ways in which mothering and maternal bodies influence and are influenced by social and cultural processes and the politics of space. The research for this book is positioned simultaneouslly both in feminist geographical literatures on bodies and in a broader interdisciplinary literature on mothers, mothering and maternal bodies. One of the case studies in the book is on Maori women.