Keywords: sexuality
Loading...
Displaying 1-20 of 56 results.
"A Less Reliable Form of Birth Control": Miriam Allen deFord Describes Her Introduction to Contraception in 1914
| Rating: | |
| Type: | Library or Collection |
Abstract: Despite major cultural, legal, and medical impediments the use of birth control, including abortion, by American women was widespread at the turn of the century. In their quest to control unwanted pregnancies, American women could be surprisingly resourceful in the methods they used. In this audio excerpt ... More »
Advanced Essay Workshop, Spring 2005
| Rating: | |
| Type: | Course Related Materials |
Abstract: For students with experience in writing nonfictional prose. Advanced study of rhetorical strategies and techniques of prose style. Considerable writing and revision required. In addition to analyzing the work of class members, students read and discuss the work of distinguished essayists chosen to represent ... More »
"All These Mean Dykes Standing Around:"Shelley Ettinger Describes the Lesbian and Gay Community of the 1970s
| Rating: | |
| Type: | Library or Collection |
Abstract: The women's movement of the 1970's sent shock-waves through every corner of American life, transforming the way people thought about families, jobs, and every day interactions. By questioning traditional sex roles, feminism also encouraged the growth of the gay and lesbian rights movement. Previously, ... More »
"An Iron Furnace of Affliction": Abigail Abbot Bailey Endures the Abuse of her Husband, New Hampshire, 1790-1791
| Rating: | |
| Type: | Library or Collection |
Abstract: During their 26 years of marriage, New Englanders Abigail Abbot and Asa Bailey lived on farms in Haverhill and Landaff, New Hampshire, and had 14 children. In 1770, Asa conducted an affair with one of the farm's hired women. Three years later, a second farm servant accused him of rape. Asa also beat ... More »
Animal Behavior, Fall 2005
| Rating: | |
| Type: | Course Related Materials |
Abstract: Most of the major categories of adaptive behavior can be seen in all animals. This course begins with the evolution of behavior, the driver of nervous system evolution, reviewed using concepts developed in ethology, sociobiology, other comparative studies, and in studies of brain evolution. The roles ... More »
Bobbed Hair Blues: A Mexican-American Song Laments "Las Pelonas"
| Rating: | |
| Type: | Library or Collection |
Abstract: The "new woman" of the 1910s and 1920s rejected the pieties (and often the politics) of the older generation, smoked and drank in public, celebrated the sexual revolution, and embraced consumer culture. The flapper portrayed in cartoons, ads, and nationally circulated journalism, however, was almost ... More »
"Bring Sex Out of the Closet of Fear": A Psychologist Argues that Sex Education Can Save the American Family
| Rating: | |
| Type: | Library or Collection |
Abstract: Alfred C. Kinsey published his pathbreaking research on sexual behavior in 1948 and 1953, reporting that premarital and extramarital sexual activity was not uncommon in American life. In fact, Kinsey argued, it had been part of a long-term shift beginning in the 1910s. Alarmed critics in the popular ... More »
Cal Noyce Describes Merging Union, Gay, and Lesbian Organizing
| Rating: | |
| Type: | Library or Collection |
Abstract: An officer of the Communications Workers of America Local 7704 in Salt Lake City and an out gay man, Cal Noyce began to raise issues of gay, lesbian, and bisexual equity within the union during the early 1990's. By forming an organization of gay trade unionists in Utah, as well as the national gay, lesbian, ... More »
"Caught in the Shafting."
| Rating: | |
| Type: | Library or Collection |
Abstract: The National Police Gazette portrays, in a characteristically lurid fashion, an industrial accident in a North Grosvenor, Connecticut, cotton mill. Many late-nineteenth century businessmen ignored hazardous working conditions, since they had little financial incentive to make the workplace safer. In ... More »
"Complete Nudity Is Never Permitted": The Motion Picture Production Code of 1930
| Rating: | |
| Type: | Library or Collection |
Abstract: Mae West spent her career on the stage and screen skirting--and sometimes transgressing--the boundaries of sexual and moral propriety. In 1926 and 1927, she outraged some critics (and landed herself in jail) with two sensational Broadway productions, Sex (a play she wrote about a Montreal prostitute, ... More »
Elsie Johnson McDougald on "The Double Task: The Struggle of Negro Women for Sex and Race Emancipation"
| Rating: | |
| Type: | Library or Collection |
Abstract: Through a range of political, social, and organizational venues, African-American women struggled to participate in the racial awareness and pride that characterized the "New Negro" movement of the 1920s. Alain Locke's important 1925 compilation of Harlem Renaissance writings, The New Negro , included ... More »
Enemies, A Drama of Modern Marriage: The Sexual Revolution Enacted
| Rating: | |
| Type: | Library or Collection |
Abstract: In the 1920s, new sexual ideologies reshaped prescriptions for marriage, incorporating moderate versions of feminism. Neith Boyce and Hutchins Hapgood shared the romantic radicalism of Floyd Dell and other Greenwich Village bohemians in the early 20th century. They practiced open marriage, though not ... More »
"Equal Rights Are Not Special": Advocates Call for an End to Anti-Gay Employment Discrimination
| Rating: | |
| Type: | Library or Collection |
Abstract: Although Title VII of the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibited employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, national origin, and sex, as of 2002, no Federal law prevents an employer from discrimination based on sexual orientation. With the advent of the gay liberation movement in ... More »
Evolutionary Psychology, Spring 1999
| Rating: | |
| Type: | Course Related Materials |
Abstract: Current research on the evolution and development of cognition and affect, including intuitive physics, biology, and psychology, language, emotions sexuality, social relations.
Feminist Political Thought, Fall 2000
| Rating: | |
| Type: | Course Related Materials |
Abstract: This course focuses on a range of theories of gender in modern life. In recent years feminist scholars in a range of disciplines have challenged previously accepted notions of political theory such as the distinctions between public and private, the definitions of politics itself, the nature of citizenship, ... More »
Food Insufficiency Is Associated with High-Risk Sexual Behavior among Women in Botswana and Swaziland
| Rating: | |
| Type: | Library or Collection |
Abstract: Background Both food insufficiency and HIV infection are major public health problems in sub-Saharan Africa, yet the impact of food insufficiency on HIV risk behavior has not been systematically investigated. We tested the hypothesis that food insufficiency is associated with HIV transmission behavior. Methods ... More »
Gender Bender: Mary Masquerades as Murray
| Rating: | |
| Type: | Library or Collection |
Abstract: Most people have a clear stereotype of the urban political boss of the early 20th century, and in many ways Murray Hall, a leader of New York City's notorious "Tammany Hall," was its embodiment. Hall was known as a poker-playing, cigar-chomping, whiskey-drinking, "man about town." But in one significant ... More »
Gender, Sexuality, and Performativity Online Fall 2007
| Rating: | |
| Type: | Course Related Materials |
Abstract: Gender, Sexuality, and Performativity Online. From Art 23AC: Foundations of American Cyber-Culture - Fall 2007.
Gender, Sexuality, and Society, Spring 2006
| Rating: | |
| Type: | Course Related Materials |
Abstract: This course includes an introduction to the anthropological study of human sexuality, gender constructs, and the sociocultural systems that these are embedded in. Examines current critiques of Western philosophical and psychological traditions, and cross-cultural variability and universals of gender ... More »
Historicizing Sex and Sexuality
| Rating: | |
| Type: | Course Related Materials |
Abstract: Letters and Science 180 - Spring 2007. Being a mother, a father, a son or daughter: these are universal human conditions, yet in every human society they are experienced differently. Grounded in universals of human sexual variation, this course takes experiences of people of different sexes at many points ... More »
