"

Gender, Sex and Sexuality

The cover of the book, "Our Bodies Ourselves: A Book By and For Women, By the Boston Women's Health Collective. the image on the cover is of an intergenerational group of light-skinned feminine presenting people holding a placard that says, "WOMEN UNITE"
Figure 3.1 Our Bodies Ourselves. Early feminists challenged patriarchal medical systems with a Do-it-Yourself guide to sexuality and sexual health. This book, which has been updated eight times, empowered generations of women. How did you learn about sexuality? You have the option to learn more about Our Bodies Ourselves [Website] if you’d like to.

Contents of This Chapter:

  1. Chapter Introduction
    1. Chapter Overview: Let’s Talk About Sex
    2. Key Terms
    3. Learning Objectives
    4. Licenses and Attributions for Chapter Introduction
      1. Open Content, Original
      2. All Rights Reserved Content
  2. Sexuality and the Sociological Imagination
    1. Early Research: What is Normal?
    2. Real But Not True: Sex Outside of Marriage
    3. Sexual Scripts
    4. LEARN MORE: Racialized Sexual Scripts
    5. Pleasure, Work, and Power
      1. Orgasms
      2. Sex Work
      3. Monogamy
    6. LEARN MORE: Polyamory, Monogamy and Power
    7. Let’s Review
    8. Licenses and Attributions for Sex and the Sociological Imagination
      1. Open Content, Original
      2. Open Content, Shared Previously
      3. All Rights Reserved Content
  3. Who Do You Love?
    1. Gay Liberation
    2. Coming Out
    3. Gender Identity & Sexual Orientation
    4. LEARN MORE: Queer Gender Expression
    5. Let’s Review
    6. Licenses and Attributions for Who Do You Love?
      1. Open Content, Original
      2. Open Content, Shared Previously
      3. All Rights Reserved Content
  4. Sexual Violence and Patriarchy
    1. Select Sexual Violence Statistics from The National Sexual Assault Resource Center (NSARC).
    2. Sexual Violence as a Social Problem
    3. The Sexual Violence Continuum
    4. A Social-Ecological Approach to Preventing Sexual Violence
    5. LEARN MORE: Ecological Systems Theory
    6. Let’s Review
    7. Looking Through the Lens: The Gender Unicorn
    8. Licenses and Attributions for Sexual Violence and Patriarchy
      1. Open Content, Original
      2. Open Content, Shared Previously
      3. All Rights Reserved Content
  5. Conclusion
    1. Review Learning Objectives
    2. Questions for Discussion
    3. Real But Not True: Check-in
    4. Let’s Review
    5. Licenses and Attributions for Conclusion
      1. Open Content, Original
  6. References

How to Navigate this Book Online

Table of Contents

Every page of this book has a button labeled CONTENTS. In most browsers, this button will be in the upper left corner. You can click anywhere on that button to show the book’s table of contents. Clicking the button again hides the table of contents.

In the table of contents, you can click on a title of a chapter to navigate to the beginning of that chapter.

You can also click on the “+” in the table of contents to see the chapter’s sections and navigate directly to that place in the book.

Turning a Page

If you’re reading on a larger screen, look at the bottom of the page. There is a button in the lower right corner labeled “Next →” that you can click to move forward, and another button in the lower left corner labeled “← Previous” that you can click to move backward.

Reading on Smaller Screens

On smaller screens, like phones and tablets, the CONTENTS are at the top of the page. Look for the Previous and Next buttons at either the top or bottom of the page.

3

document.addEventListener(“DOMContentLoaded”, function() {
var hiddenNumber = document.querySelector(‘.oor-part-no’).textContent;
var partNumberElement = document.createElement(‘span’);
partNumberElement.textContent = hiddenNumber;
partNumberElement.className = ‘oor-part-number’;
var titleElement = document.querySelector(‘.entry-title’);
titleElement.insertBefore(partNumberElement, titleElement.firstChild);
});

License

Icon for the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

Sociology of Gender: An Equity Lens Copyright © by Heidi Esbensen and Nora Karena is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.