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Sexuality education across cultures : working with differences

Title
  1. Sexuality education across cultures : working with differences / Janice M. Irvine.
Published by
  1. San Francisco : Jossey-Bass Publishers, c1995.
Author
  1. Irvine, Janice M.

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Description
  1. xix, 184 p.; 24 cm.
Summary
  1. Sexuality Education Across Cultures is the first book of its kind to focus on the effects cultural differences have on sexuality education. Author Janice M. Irvine demonstrates how cultural differences can profoundly shape beliefs about what it means to be a man or a woman and how these differences shape an individual's sexual thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.
  2. This important new book demonstrates how a better understanding of cultural differences can improve communication about sexuality and help to create more effective sexuality education programs.
Series statement
  1. Jossey-Bass social and behavioral science series
Uniform title
  1. Jossey-Bass social and behavioral science series.
Subject
  1. Sex instruction
  2. Multiculturalism
  3. Multicultural education
  4. Sex Education
  5. Cross-Cultural Comparison
Contents
  1. 1. Rethinking Sexuality -- 2. Cultural Theories, Cultural Practices -- 3. Constructing Race, Inventing Stereotypes -- 4. Being Sexual: Our Behaviors and Identities -- 5. Culture, Gender, and Sexuality -- 6. Sexual Language, Conversational Strategies, and Communication Patterns -- 7. Culture and Risk: A Contextual View -- 8. Epilogue.
Owning institution
  1. Columbia University Libraries
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.