This autoethnography of a sex researcher reveals an intimate, nuanced, and engaging portrayal of sex and gender roles across multiple cultures and contexts through the lenses of anthropology, psychology, and sociology-and illustrates how the authors conception of her own sexuality and gender changes across the life span in the process.
In the early evening on October 1, 2003, Christina Crosby was three miles into a seventeen mile bicycle ride, intent on reaching her goal of 1,000 miles for the riding season. She was a respected senior professor of English who had celebrated her fiftieth birthday a month before. As she crested a hill, she caught a branch in the spokes of her ......
In the early evening on October 1, 2003, Christina Crosby was three miles into a seventeen mile bicycle ride, intent on reaching her goal of 1,000 miles for the riding season. She was a respected senior professor of English who had celebrated her fiftieth birthday a month before. As she crested a hill, she caught a branch in the spokes of her ......
How the Food and Birth Movements Resist Industrialization
There are people dedicated to improving the way we eat, and people dedicated to improving the way we give birth. A Bun in the Oven is the first comparison of these two social movements. The food movement has seemingly exploded, but little has changed in the diet of most Americans. And while there's talk of improving the childbirth experience, ......
How the Food and Birth Movements Resist Industrialization
There are people dedicated to improving the way we eat, and people dedicated to improving the way we give birth. A Bun in the Oven is the first comparison of these two social movements. The food movement has seemingly exploded, but little has changed in the diet of most Americans. And while there's talk of improving the childbirth experience, ......
Anthropological poverty has long been overlooked in Christian theology. It disproportionately affects women, striking at the heart of their existence. However, when women are empowered to follow Christ and live as risen beings, they can radically contribute to a Catholic Christian theology that claims solidarity with the poor and oppressed.
Women and Sexual Love in the British Novel, 1740-1880
What is the problem of sexual love? Neither inclusive of all aspects of sexuality nor fully synonomous with the idealized mythos of romantic love, sexual love as desire is marked by the highly charged intersection of sexuality and romantic love; it is a space where gender is imagined and enacted. In A Craving Vacancy, Susan Ostrov Weisser examines ......
Women and Sexual Love in the British Novel, 1740-1880
What is the problem of sexual love? Neither inclusive of all aspects of sexuality nor fully synonomous with the idealized mythos of romantic love, sexual love as desire is marked by the highly charged intersection of sexuality and romantic love; it is a space where gender is imagined and enacted. In A Craving Vacancy, Susan Ostrov Weisser examines ......
