Adolescent Behavior: Readings & Interpretations (Textbook)

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Adolescent Behavior: A Dull Read.......2005-06-13

This book is definitely a boring read. Elizabeth Aries uses what others have found instead of making her own conclusions.

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Family Theories of Interest

Readings in Family Theory
Thomas R. Chibucos
Manufacturer: Sage Publications
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Readings in Family Theory is an anthology of classic and contemporary articles that provides a context for student learning by demonstrating how theory fits into the overall process of scientific research on families. The book provokes student interest in theory by providing examples of the scholarly application of family theory to compare how people use similar processes in everyday life. Using this contextual orientation, the selected readings examine nine prevalent theoretical perspectives from both family and human development sciences.

Editors Thomas R. Chibucos, Randall W. Leite, and David L. Weis offer brief descriptions of the basic concepts and historical roots of each theory along with examples of scholarship and research guided by each. The volume editors suggest that scientific progress will be enhanced to the degree that research and theory are more fully integrated into the family and human development sciences.

Key Features

Volume editors provide an introduction to the reader and discuss what theory is and why it is important
Nine theoretical perspectives are examined-family life course, life-span development, social learning, social exchange, social conflict, feminist, symbolic interactionist, family systems, and ecological
Chapters include a brief description of the readings, issues for consideration, and a list of additional readings for further research
The concluding chapter provides an overview of developments in family theory and thoughts on future directions

Readings in Family Theory provides undergraduate and graduate students with an excellent introduction to family theory. It can be used as a stand-alone text or as a companion to any other family theory texts.

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Family Theories of Interest.......2007-05-13

I found this book interesting, especially the Chapter on Marriage and Celibacy. Does one stay in a sexless marriage? Can a married couple love each other and not want to share intimacy? Dr. Chibucos is a brilliant editor.

Misconceptions: Truth, Lies, and the Unexpected on the Journey to Motherhood

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OPENED MY EYES
Fabulous reporting, no whining to be found
Great, but a little pessimistic
Contrary to my expectations ...
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Misconceptions: Truth, Lies, and the Unexpected on the Journey to Motherhood
Naomi Wolf
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In The Beauty Myth the fearless Naomi Wolf revolutionized the way we think about beauty. In Misconceptions, she demythologizes motherhood and reveals the dangers of common assumptions about childbirth. With uncompromising honesty she describes how hormones eroded her sense of independence, ultrasounds tested her commitment to abortion rights, and the keepers of the OB/GYN establishment lacked compassion. The weeks after her first daughter’s birth taught her how society, employers, and even husbands can manipulate new mothers. She had bewildering post partum depression, but learned that a surprisingly high.percentage of women experience it.
Wolf’s courageous willingness to talk about the unexpected difficulties of childbirth will help every woman become a more knowledgeable planner of her pregnancy and better prepare her for the challenges of balancing a career, freedom, and a growing family. Invaluable in its advice to parents, Misconceptions speaks to anyone connected–personally, medically, or professionally–to a new mother.

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OPENED MY EYES.......2007-09-20

If you're pregnant and don't care if your ob/gyn pumps you full of meds and performs an episiotomy on you and/or a c-section in order to better fit your baby's birth into his busy schedule, then don't read this book. My wife is probably as far from being a rabid feminist as a person can be. But she does happen to have this wacky idea that giving birth ought to be something a woman can do without a whole lot of unnecessary medical interventions, if she wants to. My wife has given birth naturally to all 3 of our kids -- no problems whatsoever for either mom or babies. And every time she's had to fight off the ob/gyn's suggested interventions. Interventions she might not have been able to argue against had she not read Naomi's book and other resources and educated herself about the American medical establishment's typical ob/gyn practices. To blow off this book as a lot of feminist hooey is akin to plugging your ears, covering your eyes and ranting NA-NA-NA-NA-NA-NA...I CAN'T HEAR YOU! Read this book, get informed and then make up your own mind as to how you want to approach your own berthing experience.

Fabulous reporting, no whining to be found .......2007-08-28

Hopefully, you've reached this review, because to read some of the other reviews on this page you might dismiss Naomi Wolf "Misconceptions." This book is a wonderful piece of reporting on the issues surrounding pregnancy, fertility, birth, and the issues that come after birth (no pun intended) for the women in this country. Although, some of the experiences described are uncomfortable and upsetting, it does not make the experiences any less true. All mothers either have had an experience or know a woman who has had an experience similar to the experiences described in this book. To report on these truths (which, by the way, doesn't mean she is reporting the truth for "all" women), is the first step toward remedying the problems.

The truth is that there ARE issues with OB/GYN and postpartum healthcare in this country. You need not look any further than your front page to know that something is wrong. In Pennsylvania, for example, the OB/GYN practices can not stay afloat because the practices can not pay the malpractice insurance. As well, the insurance companies refuse to pay the full cost for a woman's labor and delivery in hospitals. I repeat. Insurance companies will not pay the full cost for one of the most important hospital stays that a woman may ever have in her life, a hospital stay that is required for the propagation of the species and the insurance companies will not pay it. Does this sound like a problem to you?

It certainly isn't new reporting that the medical community sometimes takes the "easy" way out when it comes to women's medical issues. Thankfully, things have started to change, but we are not there yet. Reading this book will give a new mother a "leg-up" on what has been happening in these new areas of her life. Isn't better to arm a new mother with information before she gets started in the process so she can have a say in what happens during HER reproductive life?

By the way, the whole section on "Calling It Fair" is right on the money. The research on day-care during the time of "Rosy the Riveter" is fantastic - I would like to see a book on that topic alone! These gems give women a great perspective to change things for themselves from the beginning! Don't miss a great eye-opener and, hopefully, a catalyst for change.

Great, but a little pessimistic.......2007-06-02

This book is great if you have never spent any time learning about how backwards the US medical establishment is concerning birth. Compared to (literally) the rest of the world, we are far behind in the level of care. What we call the "standard of care" is, in the case of most normal births, not good for mom or baby. This book tells that story. BUT. It is quite negative, and to read this book, you'll think its impossible to have a positive and SAFE birth in a US hospital. It IS possible to do so-- once you are well informed regarding which pieces of the standard of care pose a risk to mom and baby and/or exist merely for the convenience of the doctor or nursing staff. I highly recommend this book, so long as it is read cautiously and with an eye toward giving yourself a positive birth experience.

Contrary to my expectations ..........2007-05-15

I found this book in the Goodwill store and brought it home to read. I have only read one of Naomi Wolf's books (the one about the Treehouse) and have heard of her before, so I thought I would be in for a read. Little did I know that I would be in for a good read. It is controversial. It is stimulating. There are a lot of "ah ha" moments where I found myself nodding my head. There are quite a few moments where I was skeptical and found myself asking friends and family about their birthing moments and hospital stays. I even found myself rolling my eyes when she started talking about misplaced expectations about the birthing moments. Then I found myself counting my lucky stars that I am one of the very few women whose husband actually does help around the house with housework and taking care of the kids. While I am a stay-at-home mom, I do not feel demeaned in any way that I am just a mom at home ~~ no, I feel like a valued partner in a marriage that works. But that's not the point here!

I did have a hard time reconciling myself with the whole hospital institutional experience that she dwelled on for several chapters. Maybe it's luck. Maybe it's just my ignorance. I had excellent care while pregnant and I honestly was high risk since I was carrying twins. I was told upfront that chances are 50-50 that I would have a c-section. I delivered at 32 weeks. I didn't get the beautiful hospital room but I know that just about all of my friends have given birth in gorgeous rooms (even though they are hospital rooms, but they offer a lot more privacy than regular hospital rooms!). As for the high rate of c-sections, episiotomies, or anything like that ~~ I have no experience with statistics on these facts. It does seem to me to be more likely but I am not sure of what I think of that!

There are quite a few moments where I found myself relating to her experiences. Then again, there are times when I am amazed that she felt so different with her c-section than I did ~~ my problems were different than hers and yet, she struggled with her issues just like I did, just in different ways. There was not a doubt in my mind that I wasn't going to go back to work for several years so I was ok with staying home; whereas she struggled with it since she found out she was pregnant. Or her friends struggled with that issue, among others.

This is definitely a thought-provoking book. I wasn't expecting an array of emotions just from reading this book, nor was I expecting to poll my friends asking them if they've read this book. Nor was I expecting to feel guilty that I am one of those women who had a c-section ~~ though in my case, I didn't have much of a choice if I wanted to deliver healthy babies ~~ and they were breech as well. This book stirred up emotions, thoughts and ideas. It's been awhile since I've read something that hits rather close to home and so fascinating as well ~~ it made me wish that I had picked this book up several years ago before my twins were born! Now I wonder just how much have things changed since the first publication of this book.

If you like intellectual books that make you think, this book will definitely fit that bill. Yes, it does come across as whining in places but is it really whining or just stating facts? Isn't being a mother hard enough as it is without having to have others dismiss this book just as a typical whiner's book? We all deal with our issues in different ways and this book is definitely one that makes me think more as a reader and as a mother. It's worth exploring.

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awful.......2006-08-31

This book is so whiny and self-indulgent that I am amazed that Wolf is actually a mother of two kids. It paints an unnecessarily bleak picture of pregnancy and motherhood, which are nowhere near as bad as she makes it out to be. The doctors and nurses and La Leche League and everyone else she complains about in this book are not out to get you, everyone is just trying to do their job the best way they can.

Family Literacy: From Theory to Practice

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Family Literacy: From Theory to Practice
Andrea Debruin-Parecki
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In general terms, family literacy concerns the reading and writing skills that parents, children, and other family members use throughout their daily lives. Although some elementary and secondary school teachers have found family literacy to be an effective solution to helping their low-achieving students toward academic success, many educators still have a vague notion of what family literacy is and how it can be used with children and their families. Family Literacy: From Theory to Practice addresses the need for more information by directly connecting theory to practice in ways that will provide new and useful information to those training to work with families and young children, those already in the family literacy field, and others who wish to assist families in improving their literacy skills and lives. The 14 chapters are divided into four sections that address theoretical perspectives on family literacy, specific strategies for promoting family literacy in schools and communities, descriptions of diverse family literacy programs, and evaluations of family literacy programs and their participants. The chapters show the diversity of family literacy programs; present program goals and resulting outcomes; and stress the need for all educators to appreciate families' strengths, interests, and needs. Family Literacy provides a wealth of information for preservice and inservice teachers, administrators, teacher educators, and funders who want to design, develop, or improve family literacy programs.

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Just okay
Not well written
As someone who has been through a custody battle,
good potential

A Theory of Relativity
Jacquelyn Mitchard
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"They died instantly." When it comes to first sentences, it's hard to beat the car-crash immediacy of A Theory of Relativity. What follows, alas, is even more wrenching, if not nearly as black and white. Having perished in the wreck, Georgia and Ray McKenna leave behind an orphaned 1-year-old girl named Keefer--and handsome, self-involved Gordon McKenna decides to adopt his adored sister's child. Unfortunately, that's not what his affluent in-laws have in mind. The ensuing custody battle turns into a protracted legalistic horror show: a kind of Bleak House for the Oprah age, complete with appeals, retrials, PR campaigns, and even last-minute legislation.

The case is all about what's best for Keefer--right? Actually, it's also about what constitutes a family, how much genes determine our fate, and the precise meaning of blood relative. Author of the gripping family dramas The Deep End of the Ocean and The Most Wanted, Jacquelyn Mitchard is no stranger to this fictional territory. To her credit, she has created a story without heroes or villains--but also one that could have used a little more editorial nip-and-tuck. The narrative is strongly weighted toward monologue and exposition, and as a result, a compelling story ends up hampered by an awareness of its own consequence. (There's also an abundance of dialogue like "no wettie!" and "uckie," which reminds us that fiction is one place where toddlers should be seen and not heard.) Still, Mitchard is a canny student of the human heart, and in the age of cloning, in vitro fertilization, and alternative families, the nature versus nurture debate seems more relevant than ever. The author may be no Dickens, but you could call her sentimental in the same way: unafraid, that is, to appeal to her readers' strongest emotions. --Chloe Byrne

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Jacquelyn Mitchard's first novel, The Deep End of the Ocean, launched the Oprah's Book Club and riveted millions of readers across the country. Now comes A Theory of Relativity, Mitchard's most compelling and beautifully written novel yet.

At twenty-four, Gordon McKenna thinks he's already heard the worst news of his life when he learns that his sister Georgia is fatally ill. Then Georgia and her husband die in a car accident, leaving behind their baby daughter, Keefer. Gordon and his parents are able to survive their sorrow only by devoting themselves to the care of the beloved one-year-old.

But the decision of who will raise Keefer is far from over, and soon Gordon's most basic assumptions about his family will be challenged in ways so provocative that he will be driven to disbelief and then to outrage. The ordeal will test the bonds of this closely knit family, challenging even love's ultimate capacity to heal.

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In this striking novel by the author of The Deep End of the Ocean, Mitchard tells the story of an ordinary family pushed to the edge over the guardianship of a baby girl. The legal tug-of-war ultimately becomes a crucible in which the limitations of family love will be repeatedly tested and the frontiers of the human heart pushed to unimagined limits.

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Audio Book Listener.......2007-04-30

The characters in this book were well developed- but there were so MANY of them!

I wanted to make a Family Tree just to keep them all straight!

If you've never tried listening to Aduio Books, you should give them a try- they're WONDERFUL entertainment while doing housework, traveling, gardening, and you don't have to turn on the light when you want to "read" at night!

Just okay.......2006-08-11

I was really looking forward to reading this because a friend highly recommended it. I'm pretty open minded (especially after having read "Running with Scissors") so I'm surprised it didn't enjoy it.

The characters were well developed but the writing was hard to follow. Hence, I too, caught myself re-reading portions to clear up the confusion. A lot of tangents...kind of like conversations with girlfriends over a few glasses of wine.

Being from Madison, it's always nice to read references to places you know but even that didn't excite me that much. I wonder if I had been involved in an adoption issue that I might not have found this a better book? Hmmmm.

The best part was the last chapter and Keefer's voice of a child having gone through a tough life experience. A good reminder of how resillient children really are.

I will try another couple of Mitchard's books to see if this was indeed an "editor" related issue.

Not well written.......2006-05-17

What an unsatisfactory read.

There are several pieces of information that just aren't threaded together. Some of the behaviors of the characters have no motivation.

Sad. It couldn've been a great book.

As someone who has been through a custody battle,.......2004-03-24

I couldn't put this one down. I'm not adopted but when my parents divorced, the whole family wanted to adopt me, and it split my family to this very day, 10 plus years later. The emotions that Gordon felt were very real. You want the best for the child, but if nothing's working in bringing the child to your home, you give up. I love Mitchards writing, and I think this one to be one of her best. Yes there is alot of background information, but as with anything to get a clear picture of a story you need that clarity. She has to detail everything. I couldn't put this book down, and enjoyed it. The ending was quite interesting and unexpected which is a pleasure when you get to the point that you think you could guess the ending to every book when they get formulaic. Pick this one up, with "The Most Wanted" and I guarantee you'll have a weekend worth of excellent reading.

good potential.......2003-10-13

This was a book with so much potential, it's too bad it didn't get some editorial help to make it a great book. The strong points were that the characters felt so real to me, and I really felt attached to them. But other than that, reading it was painful. First, the author unfortunately tries to give us points of view of too many characters, making the reader not know any one character in depth, and reading too many details. Also, I didn't like the way the reader was kept in torturing suspense as to the fate of Keefer's custody. I finally figured it out within a completely new context at the very end - the author knew we would all want to know, so why write about it 'by the way'? The book just took too many different directions, taking me off the original path of caring and feeling for the characters.

Feminism and Emotion: Readings in Moral and Political Philosophy

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Feminism and Emotion: Readings in Moral and Political Philosophy
Susan Mendus
Manufacturer: Palgrave Macmillan
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This book combines the insights of enlightenment thinking and feminist theory to explore the significance of love in modern philosophy. The author argues for the importance of emotion in general, and love in particular, to moral and political philosophy, pointing out that some of the central philosophers of the enlightment were committed to a moralized conception of love. However, she believes that feminism's insights arise not from its attribution of special and distinctive qualities to women, but from its recognition of human vulernability.

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Literary mountaineering with a two-year-old

Letters to My Son on the Love of Books
Roberto Cotroneo , and Roberto Controneo
Manufacturer: Ecco Pr
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"The more you mix authors up, the more the titles and the centuries become mingled in your mind, the more you'll have understood something about literature."

Letters to My Son on the Love of Books is an odd little book; billed as a guide for parents who want to impart a love of reading to their children, Robert Cotroneo's slim epistolary volume works just as easily as psychopomp to the adult reader's own past love affair with the written word. And surely the literature he chooses to discuss is hardly appropriate to the Dr. Seuss set--one whole letter is devoted to T.S. Eliot, whose "The Wasteland" and "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" have confounded many an English lit. major. As one delves further into Cotroneo's musings on the nature of literature in general and the moral and psychological dimensions of particular works such as The Catcher in the Rye, Treasure Island, and The Loser (in addition to Eliot), it becomes increasingly clear that this book is intended for one's inner child first and foremost. Deceptively simple, Robert Cotroneo's charming Letters makes reading about old favorites almost as delightful as introducing them to a new generation of readers. --Margaret Prior

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A guide for parents to help their children learn about life through literature. "And when it couldn't sleep one summer's night, what child hasn't imagined that it saw Peter Pan's ship sailing through the sky? I want to teach you to see that ship; I want to write you a book to tell you that serious books, even those difficult ones for adults, are nothing more than sailing ships in disguise and have the same magic as the ship sprinkled with gold dust sailed by Peter Pan..." So writes Roberto Cotroneo in the opening pages of his "Letters to My Son on the Love of Books," a beautiful, engaging collection of four "letters" from an Italian farmer to his young son Francesco that is an introduction to not only the wonders of literature, but also the moral dimensions it contains. Each "letter" focuses on a particular theme, and on one book or author to illustrate it. Cotroneo discusses how: Robert Louis Stevenson's "Treasure Island" instructs us on anxiety; tenderness is discovered in J.D. Salinger's "The Catcher in the Rye;" the notion of passion is articulated in T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land" and "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"; and Thomas Bernard's "The Loser" illustrated how the pitfalls of unhealthy competition can turn talent into disaster. Cotroneo has chosen books from which he has learned valuable lessons about the world, lessons that as a father he passionately wants to share with his son. For book lovers of all ages, these letters of practical criticism offer valuable lessons for life.

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Literary mountaineering with a two-year-old.......2002-07-18

In a nutshell, this is a book of close reading exercises and personal reflections disguised as a long letter to a two-year old boy. It discusses three novels (Stevenson's Treasure Island, Salinger's Catcher in the Rye, Thomas Bernhard's The Loser) and one poem (T.S. Eliot's The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock) in some detail. Not exactly the kind of bedtime reading a two-year-old enjoys.

I appreciate the idea of the book and the intention behind it, but the weaknesses of the book are substantial. Most obvious is the irritating discrepancy between the author's attempt to appear talking to his two-year old son while at the same time penning sentences like "In Italy, Holden's transgression is a precursor of 1968, a sort of protest ante litteram, a proto-desecrator of the system, of the social values of his day." That is heady stuff for a two-year old, but definitely good material for an essay in the culture section of the weekly magazine for which the author writes. The tone of the book is that of a well-meaning but somewhat patronizing teacher. There is a strong "you-shouldish-ness" in the book, which erupts every so often in sentences like "You should treasure the good books, and throw away the ones which are not good." Not that this was a very sophisticated suggestion - but there are very few original ideas in the book, anyway. Mr. Cotroneo spends a lot of time recounting the story lines, which is admittedly a bit boring. At other times he indulges in some personal, and nonetheless widespread, prejudices against popular culture ("If it happens that the latest and most stupid hit record brings to your mind a fragment of Heraclitus, then it will mean that, on the cultural side, you have nothing to worry at all."), against professionals ("And remember, even lawyers, economists, and physicians can only be good lawyers, economists, and physicians if they have truly learned how to read a great poem. If they can't, they're only hacks, extremely mediocre ones.") and against small towns ("You are also struck by the measured quality [of life in a small town], from which a Baudelaire, a Radiguet, a Wilde, or a Hemingway could never have been born."). All these rather snooty statements combine to bring him across as more sententious, arrogant, and condescending than he probably is.

I am convinced Mr. Cotroneo loves his son no less than I love my own two-year old son. But what is the little guy to think of a father who boasts that "at the age of fifteen I was reading Joyce, T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land, and much more," but claims at the same time that he has "no intention to make you [his son] into a literary mountaineer?" Mr. Controneo is all good intentions but sets a bad example himself by name-dropping Joyce, Dante, Augustinus, Borges and many other famous literary luminaries. Why, if he does not want his son to go climbing at such altitudes, does he point out the highest peaks?

The redeeming aspects of the book are the author's protectiveness of his son and his professed wish for the boy to enjoy what he does without having to feel forced to excel at it: "When you are older you will have to learn a lesson that The Loser can teach you: you must have passion and generosity of spirit to love the things that you do, without trying to obtain a result whatever the cost." When he grows up, his son will also come to understand that his father's "Letters to my Son" can be read for the most part as a monologue in which his father explains what made his life meaningful, what shaped him, and what he thinks is important in life. Very few fathers care to do that, and the little guy is privileged to have such a father. I just wish his father had not packaged all this in the form of an exhortative letter full of contradictory messages.

Oedipus Ubiquitous: The Family Complex in World Folk Literature
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Oedipus Ubiquitous: The Family Complex in World Folk Literature
Allen Johnson , and Douglass Price-Williams
Manufacturer: Stanford University Press
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Is the “Oedipus complex” universal? This book examines the controversial question in light of its collection of 139 family complex folktales from every world cultural area and every level of social complexity, the largest such collection ever made.

Philosophy and the Maternal Body: Reading Silence

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Philosophy and the Maternal Body: Reading Silence
Boulous Walker
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i Philosophy and the Maternal Body /i is a fascinating exploration of an overlooked aspect of feminist thought: what is the role of maternity in philosophy and in what ways has it been used by male theorists to effectively "silence" the voices of women in philosophy? Drawing on rich examples such as Plato's allegory of the cave, Sigmund Freud and Melanie Klein's writing on the mother and the mother-daughter relationship, and the psychoanalytic and feminist insights of Irigaray and Kristeva, Michelle Boulous Walker clearly shows how terms such as denial, repression and foreclosure offer crucial insight into the philosophical construction of the maternal body.

The Philosophy of Sex: Contemporary Readings

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Sex, Sexual, Love; Only Sex Here
Finally a book about sexuality that isn't based in fear!

The Philosophy of Sex: Contemporary Readings

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Erotic Welfare: Sexual Theory and Politics in the Age of Epidemic (Thinking Gender)
Eros, Agape and Philia: Readings in the Philosophy of Love

ASIN: 0742547981

Book Description

This fascinating book illustrates how a philosophical approach to sexuality can illuminate various sexual phenomena: pornography, prostitution, the difference between women and men in sexual behaviors and attitudes, sadomasochism, homosexuality, masturbation, sexual perversion, and adultry. The third edition of this popular anthology of essays has been revised to expand the sections on homosexuality and sexual morality and to include essays on date rape and sexual harassment.

Customer Reviews:

Sex, Sexual, Love; Only Sex Here.......2006-03-20

This book has been around for a couple of decades, updated periodically to make it more contemporary. It was a required text in a course I took on "The Philosophy of Sex," and I did not like it then, and I still don't like it. Why?

Because it's obviously a textbook. It's a collection or readings about "sex," and as the word "sex" can be quite elastic, so is this book. And because of that, this book finds its way into academia. Yes, it has readings on all sorts of "sex" issues, from abortion to homosexuality to bestiality (I might be kidding), but sex to me is none of those things (okay, homosexuality is sex). But "sex" here is distinct from "sexual," and that's the rub.

If you want a textbook that examines "sex," but not the "sexual," this book may interest you, but I assure you that you will not be entertained. It's as dry as they come (pun intended). If you're interested in theories about "love" and "sexuality," then mosey over to Robert Solomon. He has several (unfortunately some of his books have different names for the same text; be careful). His wonderful book "Love" is truly extraordinary (but it appears in different incarnations).

If you've been assigned this book as a text, you have my complete and total sympathies.

Finally a book about sexuality that isn't based in fear!.......1999-07-09

Thank you for finally writing a book about the diversity of humans and their sexuality in a clear and positive light!

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