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Women's Sexuality Across The Life Span

Challenging Myths, Creating Meanings
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This essential book explores how women experience and express their sexuality from childhood through old age. Moving beyond a traditional focus on sexual functioning, the book emphasizes the complex interaction of psychological, social, cultural, and biological influences on the creation of individual sexual meanings--meanings central to each woman's experience of herself as a sexual person. The author shows how these meanings are often problematic and contradictory, causing many women to feel disconnected from their bodies and from their needs and desires. Demonstrating how problematic myths and messages can be challenged, the book outlines ways that women can be empowered to create a more comfortable and self-defined sexuality throughout life.
I. The Enigma of Women's Sexuality 1. Opening Pandora's Box II. Childhood and Adolescence 2. Teaching the Children 3. Adolescence: Biological and Psychological Development 4. Menstruation: Initiation into Womanhood 5. "Bawdy" Image: From Subject to Object 6. Who Loves Ya, Babe?: Sexual Intimacies and Expression III. Young Adulthood 7. Biological and Psychological Development 8. Creating a Life 9. In the Prime of Life: Living in Our Bodies 10. Fanning the Flames of DesireIV. The Middle and Later Years 11. Biological and Psychological Development 12. When Being "Hot" Takes on New Meaning: Menopause 13. The Festival of Lipid Migration: Bodily Changes and Body Image 14. Intimate Connections: Sexual Expression and Relationships 15. Coming Full Circle Appendices: The Sexual Development of Children and Adolescents Body Image and Struggles with Weight The Aftermath of Sexual Violence Lesbian Identity and Sexual Orientation Reproductive Health and Decision Making Disability and Illness Issues for Women in the Middle and Later Years
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