Anthropology of Sex, Paperback

Everything you ever wanted to know about sex (and statistics) from the co-author of The Norm Chronicles, accompanying a major year-long exhibition ...

Reducere. DescriptionIn Sex and Culture (1934), Unwin studied 80 primitive tribes and 6 known civilizations through 5, 000 years of history and found a posit...

Reducere. First published in 1935, Sex & Temperament is a fascinating and brilliant anthropological study of the intimate lives of three New Guinea tribes fr...

DescriptionWhat is it like to live a life that is impossible? For many sex workers, life is lived at the crossroads of exclusion and assimilation, ...

What Women Want--What Men Want offers evidence about the real reasons behind men's and women's differing sexual psychologies and sheds new light on...

DescriptionFocusing on the unacknowledged, personal and often unconscious dimension, Sex explores the intersection between sex and ethnography. Ant...

Reducere. "If I only had known what could happen, I would have made a different choice "After a decade in a crisis pregnancy center, as well as counseling bo...

Reducere. DescriptionA contemporary guide to sex education that answers the most pressing questions teens and young adults have about dating, relationships, ...

Reducere. Dr Ruth Westheimer is everyone's favourite sex therapist. All in a Lifetime is the memoir of her journey from the horrors of war to the fulfillment...

Now a New Showtime Original Series Showtime's dramatic series "Masters of Sex, " starring Michael Sheen and Lizzy Caplan, is based on this real-lif...

Sexuality is an important area of clients’ lives yet it is often neglected, both in the consulting room and in training. This book examines issues ...

What are the differences between the sexes? The author sets out to answer this question. To answer it, she draws on the evidence of biology, anthro...

Includes nine sections organized around themes such as everyday life, sex and gender, and science. This title features articles and book excerpts f...

Don't read this book You probably don't like being told what to do. You're not alone-the more something is considered to be off limits, the more pe...

Reducere. Dating. Relationships. Sex. Is there any part of life you find more confusing? Your parents and the other adults in your life probably try to talk ...

Revisits twentieth-century ethnographic studies of deviance, arguing that ethnographies that focus on marginal subcultures - ranging from Los Angel...

The most influential theory of the origins of women's oppression in the modern era, in a beautiful new edition In this provocative and now-classic ...

Reducere. Why do men and women cheat on each other? How do men really feel when their partners have sex with other men? What worries women more -- men who tu...

Reducere. Bipolar is a condition that affects peoples' relationships with others as much as it affects their own mental state. When one person in a couple is...

Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award From an award-winning historian comes a dazzling history of the birth of cultural anthropology ...

Reducere. DescriptionA perverse and explicit new take on the coming of age novel, William E. Jones's I'm Open to Anything explores bohemian Southern Californ...

Reducere. Winner, 2019 PROSE Award for Anthropology, Criminology and Anthropology, presented by the Association of American Publishers A groundbreaking look ...

Reducere. Stately oaks, ivy-covered walls, the opposite sex -- these are the things that likely come to mind for most Americans when they think about the ``n...

Situated in an area roughly corresponding to present-day Iraq, Mesopotamia is one of the great, ancient civilizations, though it is still relativel...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: John E. DouglasAuthor: Ann W. BurgessAuthor: Robert K. ResslerWho are the men committing the rising number of serial homici...

DescriptionFor two years Ester Newton did field research in the world of drag queens-homosexual men who make a living impersonating women. Newton s...

There is nowhere else in the world quite like Chungking Mansions, a dilapidated seventeen-story commercial and residential structure in the heart o...

Reducere. John Roemer points out that there are two views of equality of opportunity that are widely held today. The first, which he calls the nondiscriminat...

William Miller embarks on an alluring journey into the world of disgust, showing how it brings order and meaning to our lives even as it horrifies ...

DescriptionKadour Na mi came from Algeria to study in France in 1966, four years after his country's liberation from colonial rule and two years be...

Reducere. Description In Gender, Lies and Suicide, Walt Heyer analyzes the issues which fuel the tragedy of transgender suicide and shares selected stories f...

Reducere. We all wear emotional blinders: keeping society moving smoothly depends on it. But when you absolutely must rely on another person, you have to be ...

Reducere. As anthropologists, we offer this book about aging in a wide variety of human societies in the hope of its making three contributions. First, this ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Akiko TakeyamaIn the host clubs of Tokyo's Kabuki-chō red-light district, ambitious young men seek their fortunes by sellin...

Reducere. Ancient humans were peaceful - modern violence is avoidable. That's the basic message contained in "Saharasia, " a controversial "marriage of heres...

Reducere. Are they human, or are they beast? Over the past several decades, the world has seen a new phenomenon on the rise, a group of people identifying as...

Reducere. Chantal is once again tackling the subject of love, this time taking on missing links in Sex Ed and filling in the gaps. Her goal: to create a gene...