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Sex Education for Educators

cover Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Children from Sex by Judith Levine

"In America today, it is nearly impossible to publish a book that says children and teenagers can have sexual pleasure and be safe too," writes journalist Levine (My Enemy, My Love). Levine has somehow pulled that off.
 

Sex Education for Youth

cover My Body, My Self for Girls: A "What's Happening to My Body?" Quizbook and Journal, Second Edition by Lynda Madaras and Area Madaras

Written in a peppy, fun style, with a strong emphasis on honest, straightforward discussions, the workbook covers such topics as menstruation, acne, pubic hair, breasts, growing pains, and sex, with such chapter headings as "The Big M," "The Female Sex Organs: An Owner's Manual," and "B.O. and Zits--Is Puberty the Pits?"
 

Parenting Sexually Healthy Kids

cover Dilemmas of Desire : Teenage Girls Talk about Sexuality by Deborah L. Tolman

"Girls are the objects of boys' sexual desires and have no desires of their own." In this provocative study, Tolman, a researcher at Wellesley College, turns this notion upside down.
 

Sex

cover Still Doing It by Joani Blank, Ed.

"Still Doing It: Women & Men Over 60 Write About Their Sexuality" expands our vision of sexuality beyond youth, deepening our understanding of how we grow sexually.
 

GLBT Issues

cover The Lesbian Parenting Book: A Guide to Creating Families and Raising Children by D. Merilee, Ph.D. Clunis, G. Dorsey, Ph.D. Green

Written by two experienced lesbian therapists and parents, this second completely revised edition of The Lesbian Parenting Book has been updated to reflect the contemporary cultural and political landscape, as well as current trends in parenting.
 

Body Image

cover Body Outlaws : On Body Image and Identity by Ophira Edut

The writers in this groundbreaking anthology reveal a world where bodies come in all their many-splendored shapes, sizes, colors, and textures. In doing so, they expand the national dialogue on body image to include race, ethnicity, sexuality, and power-issues that, while often overlooked, are intimately linked to how women feel about their bodies.
 

Women's Sexual Health

cover NEW OURSELVES, GROWING OLDER : REVISED AND UPDATED by Paula B. Doress-Worters and Diana Laskin Siegal

This new and revised edition of the bestselling Ourselves, Growing Older includes new chapters on menopause and reform of the medical care system as well as extensive updates on housing issues, HIV/AIDS, cosmetic surgery, and breast cancer.
 

Men's Sexual Health

cover Wrestling with Love by Samuel Osherson, Ph.D.

In Wrestling with Love, psychologist Sam Osherson, author of the highly acclaimed Finding Our Fathers, reveals how men in our culture struggle to achieve intimacy in their relationships, even as strong messages about masculinity demand that they hide their desire for attachments.
 

Miscellaneous

cover Mobilizing Resentment : CONSERVATIVE RESURGENCE FROM THE JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY TO THE PROMISE KEEPERS by Jean Hardisty

In this provocative book, Jean Hardisty details the formation of right-wing movements in opposition to the struggle for expansion of rights for women, people of color, and lesbians and gays.
 

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