Resources: Sextalk Booknook
Here are some samples of what is in our book store. Click on a title to order, or click on the “all from this category” link to browse through more of our offerings.
Sex Education for Educators
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Teaching About Sexuality and HIV: Principles and Methods for Effective Education
by Evonne Hedgepeth and Joan Helmich "At Last! A comprehensive resource book that successfully integrates the theory and practice of sexuality education. "Teaching About Sexuality" provides a much-needed text for the field and will become a daily companion for all of us who are committed to providing education that enables people to understand, make wise decisions about, and celebrate their sexuality." -Peggy Brick |
Sex Education for Youth
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My Feelings, My Self: A Growing-Up Journal for Girls, Second Edition (What's Happening to My Body? Series)
by Lynda Madaras with Area Madaras them. Why don't my parents ever listen to me? Can I tell a boy that I like him? How do I say "no" to friends when they want me to do things I don't want to? Answers to these questions and more are what's in this fun- and fact-filled book as well as quizzes, exercises, stories and letters from kids expressing feelings about the changes going on in their lives during adolescence. |
Parenting Sexually Healthy Kids
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From Diapers to Dating: A Parent's Guide to Raising Sexually Healthy Children--From Infancy to Middle School
by Debra W. Haffner, M.P.H. Whether she is discussing how to help kids with the onslaught of sexual messages they see in the media or providing sensible guidance on teaching the facts of life, Debra Haffner's approach to raising sexually healthy children is informative and comforting. |
Sex
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Toygasms! The Insider's Guide to Sex Toys and Techniques
by Sadie Allison Introducing TOYGASMS!, the one instruction manual for every sex toy today! Sex educator Sadie Allison guides you through today's vast sex toy jungle to help you find the shapes, sizes and sensations that satisfy you--along with lots of fun, safe ways to achieve the best orgasms of your life. |
GLBT Issues
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Heather Has Two Mommies
by Leslea Newman The story of Heather, a preschooler with two moms who discovers that some of her friends have very different sorts of families. |
Body Image
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Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body, Tenth Anniversary Edition
by Susan Bordo Bordo explores women's obsessions with appearance, their struggles to control food and hunger, and the pressures brought on by a society that worships the ideal female figure. |
Women's Sexual Health
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Our Bodies Ourselves For The New Century
by The Boston Women's Health Book Collective By updating and continuing to tackle such topics as body image, sexuality, contraception, childbearing, breast cancer, and the politics of women's health, this edition of Our Bodies, Ourselves keeps giving women the power and the knowledge to take charge of their own health. |
Men's Sexual Health
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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
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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. |