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Resource List for Thinking Sex
Fall 2003
Allison, Dorothy. "Femme." Skin: Talking About Sex, Class and Literature. Ithaca, New York: Firebrand Books, 1994. 151- 158.
-----. "Public Silence, Private Terror." Skin. 101-120.
"A Look at the ‘Sex Respect’ Curriculum."
Rethinking Schools, 1998.
http://www.rethinkingschools.org/Archives/12_04/sexrespe.htm
Alexander, M. Jacqui. "Not Just (Any) Body Can Be a Citizen: The Politics of Law, Sexuality and Postcoloniality in Trinidad and Tobago and the Bahamas." Feminist Review 48 (Autumn 1994): 5-23.
Angier, Natalie. "Into the Light" and "Venus in
Furs: Estrogen and Desire." Woman: An Intimate Geography. Boston:
Peter Davison, 1999. ix-xvi, 193-206.
Arnold, Arthur. "Genetically Triggered Sexual Differentation of Brain and Behavior." Hormones and Behavior 30 (1996): 495-505.
Bell, Ruth. Changing Bodies, Changing Lives. New York: Vintage, 1997.
Berman, Rachel. "The ‘Nature’ of Desire."
Independent Senior Research Project
in Neural and Behavioral Sciences. Bryn Mawr College. Spring 2001.
http://serendipstudio.org/~pgrobste/natureofdesire/index.htm
The Body: AIDS Art
http://www.thebody.com/aidsart.html
Bornstein, Kate. Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us. New York: Routledge: 1994.
Boston Women's Health Collective. "Sexuality." Our Bodies, Ourselves for the New Century: A Book by and for Women. New York: Touchstone, 1998.229-262.
Bracci, Linda. "Undefining Sex with the Female Orgasm." Women, Medicine and Biology. General Programs. Haverford College. Fall 1997.
Brottman, Mikita. "The Scholar who Found a Life's Work in Dirty Jokes." The Chronicle of Higher Education. July 12, 2002.
Bryne, William The Biological Evidence Challenged, Scientific American (May 1994).
Chudnow, Amanda and Julia Switzer. "Sexuality Education: A Comprehensive and Pedagogically Feminist Curriculum. Bryn Mawr College. General Studies 224: Gender and Science, Final Project. Spring 2002.
Colomina, Beztriz, ed. et. all. Sexuality and Space. Princeton Papers on Architecture. Princeton, NJ: Princeton Architectural Press, 1992.
Conover, Ted. "Trucking Through the AIDS belt: A Reporter at Large." The New Yorker 69, 26 (August 16, 1993): 56-75.
Cryle, Peter. The Telling of the Act: Sexuality as Narrative in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century France. Newark; University of Delaware Press, 2001.
Darnton, Robert.. "Sex for Thought." Sexualities in History: A Reader. Ed. Kim Phillips and Barry Reay. New York: Routledge, 2002. 203-221.
Delany, Samuel. "Aversion/Perversion/Diversion." Longer Views: Extended Essays. Hanover, New Hampshire: University Press of New England, 1996. 119-143.
D'Emilio, John and Estelle Freedman. Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997.
Dugatkin, Lee Alan and Jean-Guy Godin. "How Females Choose Their Mates." Scientific American (April 199): 56-61.
Eberwein, Robert. Sex Ed: Film, Video and the Framework of Desire. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1999.
ETR Associates: Education/Training/Research
Fausto-Sterling, Anne. Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality. New York: Basic Books, 2000.
Feld, Steven. "'They Repeatedly Lick Their Own Things.'" Critical Inquiry 24 (Winter 1998): 445-472.
Fernandez, Diana. "Sexual Attraction Among Humans." Biology 103. Bryn Mawr College. Fall 2002.
Fine, Michelle. "Sexuality Schooling and Adolescent Females: The Missing Discourse of Desire." Disruptive Voices: The Possibility of Feminist Research. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 1992. 31-60.
Foucault, Michel. The History of Sexuality. New York: Pantheon, 1978.
Fuss, Diana. "Inside/Out." Critical Encounters: Reference and Responsibility in Deconstructive Writing. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1995. 233-240.
Gender Identity 101 http://www.tgnetarizona.org/gender101.htm
Gilligan, Carol. The Birth of Pleasure. New York: Knopf, 2002.
Grumet, Madeline and Kate Mccoy. "Feminism and Education." Routledge International Companion to Education. Ed. Bob Moon, Miriam Ben-Peretz and Sally Brown. New York: Routledge, 2000. 426-427.
Gutierrez, Ramon. When Jesus Came, The Corn Mothers Went Away: Marriage, Sexuality and Power in New Mexico, 1500-1846. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1991.
Hashmi, Farrukh, A.I. Krady, F. Qayum and George Grossberg. "Sexually Disinhibited Behavior in the Cognitively Impaired Elderly." Clinical Geriatrics (September 8, 2002). http://www.mmhc.com/cg/articles/CG0011/hashmi.html
Hedgepeth, Evonne and Helmich, Joan. Teaching about Sexuality and HIV: Principles and Methods for Effective Education. New York: New York University, 1996.
Hubbard, Betty M. Choosing Health–High School: Sexuality & Relationships.
Hollibaugh, Amber. My Dangerous Desires: A Queer Girl Dreaming Her Way Home. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 2000.
Hoover, Eric. "The New Sex Scribes: Female Columnists Spark Interest–and Controversy–at Student Newspapers." The Chronicle of Higher Education. June 14, 2002. A33-A34.
Human Rights CampaignJacob, S., McClintock, M. Zelano, B., and Ober, C.
"Paternally
Inherited HLA Alleles are Associated with Women's Choice of Male Odor."
Nature New Genetics 30 (2002): 175-179.
Johnson, Catherine, Betsy Stirratt, and John Bancroft, eds. Sex and Humor: Selections from The Kinsey Institute. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002.
"Just Say NO? What should we teach when we teach
sex education?
Abstinence, or more? Question is: What do teens say? Here are a
group of essays
from both sides." Philadelphia Inquirer. June 2, 2002.
C5. http://www.philly.com
Karp, Marcelle and Debbie Stoller. Bust’s Guide to the
New Girl Order. New York: Penguin, 1999.
Katz, Jackson. "Advertising and the Construction
of Violent
White Masculinity." Media Awareness Network:
http://www.media-awareness.ca/eng/med/class/teamedia/malevio2.htm
Kipnis, Laura. "Adultery." Critical Inquiry 24 (Winter 1998): 289-327.
Laqueur, Thomas. Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks
to Freud. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1990.
Lamb, Sharon. The Secret Lives of Girls: What Good
Girls Really
Do–Sex Play, Agression, and their Guilt. New York: Free
Press, 2001.
Legman, Gershon. No Laughing Matter: An Analysis of Sexual Humor. Volume 1. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1968.
LeVay, Simon. Home Page. http://hometown.aol.com/slevay/index.html
-----. "Sexual Orientation: The Science and its Social Impact" (2000; forthcoming in Reverso) http://members.aol.com/_ht_a/slevay/page.6.html
----- and D.H. Hamer. Evidence for a Biological Influence on Male Homosexuality, Scientific American (May 1994).
Levine, Deb. "Pheromones: Potential Participants in Your
Sex Life." (June 25, 1999).
http://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/women/9906/25/sexuality.scent/#0
Levine, Judith. Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Children from Sex. Minneapois: University of Minnsesota Press, 2002.
"Love in the 21st Century: An Issue Exploring
how the American
Couple Has Changed." New York Times Magazine (October
14, 2001).
McCloskey, Dierdre. Crossing: A Memoir. Chicago: University of Chicago Press,1999.
MacKinnon, Catherine. "Defamation and Discrimination." Only Words. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press,1993. 1-42.
Mansukhani, V., Adkins-Regan, A., and Yang, S. "Sexual Partner Preference in Female Zebra Finches: The Role of Early Hormones and Social Environment." Hormones and Behavior 30 (1996): 506-513.
Margulis, Lynn and Dorion Sagan. What is Sex? New York: Nevraumont, 1997.
Masters, William and Virginia Johnson. Human Sexual Response. Boston: Little,Brown and Company, 1966.
Museum of Menstruation: www.mum.org
Museum of Sex. 233 Fifth Avenue @ 27th Street. New York City. http://www.museumofsex.com
Nanda, Serena. Neither Man Nor Woman: The Hijars of India.
Boston: Wadsworth, 1999.
Norman, Jan. "The Evolutionary Theory of Sexual Attraction." The Human Sexuality Web. University of Missouri-Kansas City. 1998.
Orenstein, Peggy. "A Graphic Life: Phoebe Gloeckner is one of a Cadre of Cartoonists Creating Unsettling Stories about the Dark Side of Growing up Female." New York Times Magainze. (August 5, 2001): 26-29.
"Sex, Gender, and Mate Preference." Nature, Nurture, and Evolution: A Discussion of the Significance of Genetics and Evolution for Understanding Human Behavior. http://serendipstudio.org/gen_beh/course02/syllabus5.html
Panati, Charles. Sexy Origins and Intimate Things: The Rites and Rituals of Straights, Gays, Bi’s, Drags, Trans, Virgins and Others. New York: Penguin, 1998.
Phillips, Kim and Barry Reay. Sexualities in History: A Reader. New York: Routledge, 2002.
Poovey, Mary. "Sex in America." Critical Inquiry 24 (Winter 1998): 366-392.
Rubin, Gayle. "Misguided, Dangerous and Wrong: an Analysis of Anti-Pornography Politics." Bad Girls and Dirty Pictures: The Challenge to Reclaim Feminism. Ed. Alison Assiter and Avedon Carol. Boulder, Colorado: Pluto, 1993. 18-40.
-----. "Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory
of the Politics
of Sexuality." American Feminist Thought at Century's End :
A Reader.
Ed. Linda S. Kauffman Cambridge, Ma : Blackwell, 1993. 3-64.
http://www.csun.edu/CommunicationStudies/class/632/97s/rept/970413.hardey.html
Safe, Healthy Schools:
http://www.safehealthyschools.org/sexualityeducation/gateway.htm
Schneider, Rebecca. The Explicit Body in Performance. New York: Routledge, 1997.
Sears, James, Ed. Sexuality and the Curriculum: The Politics and Practices of Sexuality Education. New York: Teachers College,1992.
Sex Education, Okemos Public Schools:
http://Okemos.k12.mi.us/users/admin/curriculum/se/9THOUT.htm
Sex and Relationship Education: Resources for
Secondary Schools.
Sex Education Forum. National Children’s Bureau, London
Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States:www.siecus.org
Stepp, Laura Sessions. "Unsettling New Fad Alarms Parents: Middle
School Oral Sex." Washington Post (July 8, 1999): A1. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/features/students070899.htm
Tiefer, Leonore. "The Capacity for Outrage: Feminism, Humor and Sex." Sex and Humor: Selections from The Kinsey Institute. Ed. Catherine Johnson, Betsy Stirratt and John Bancroft. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002. 22-38.
-----. Sex is Not a Natural Act and Other Essays. Boulder: Westview Press, 1995.
Turner, James Grantham. "Sex as Discipline: The Idea of Erotic Education." Schooling Sex: Libertine Literature and Erotic Education in Italy, France, and England 1534-1685. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. 13-27.
Villarosa, Linda. "At Elders' Home, Each Day Is Valentine's Day." Global Action on Aging. http://www.globalaging.org/elderrights/us/valentinesday.htm
Vogler, Candace. "Sex and Talk." Critical Inquiry 24 (Winter 1998): 328-365.
Wade, Nicholas. "Scent of a Man is Linked to a
Woman's Selection."
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Weeks, Jeffrey. Sex, Politics and Society: The Regulation of Sexuality Since 1800. New York: Longman, 1981.
Winterson, Jeanette. Written on the Body. New York: Vintage, 1994.
Zuk, Marlene. Sexual Selections: What We Can and Can't Learn About Sex From Animals. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002.
