Sex, Self, and Society: The Social Context of Sexuality
- ISBN-10
- 0534529437
- ISBN-13
- 9780534529437
- Category
- Science (General)
- Pages
- 458
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2005
- Publisher
- Thomson/Wadsworth
- Author
- Tracey L. Steele
Description
The reader contains 60 edited articles divided into 15 chapters covering a range of issues dealing with human sexuality. The reader focuses on sexuality as both process and as a social institution. Contemporary issues such as abortion and sexually transmitted diseases are the focus of the last part of the reader.
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