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Women’s Sexuality (Test Only)

Course Outline

This essential book explores how women experience and express their sexuality from childhood through old age. Moving beyond a traditional focus on sexual functioning, the book emphasizes the complex interaction of psychological, social, cultural, and biological influences on the creation of individual sexual meanings? meanings central to each woman’s experience of herself as a sexual person. The author shows how these meanings are often problematic and contradictory, causing many women to feel disconnected from their bodies and form their needs and desires. Demonstrating how problematic myths and messages can be challenged, the book outlines ways that women can be empowered to create a more comfortable and self-defined sexuality throughout life.

About Authors

Judith C Daniluk, PhD, is professor and Director of Training in the Counseling Psychology Program at the University of British Columbia

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Learning Objectives

  1. Describe the impact of maltreatment on the developing child and youth, especially the potential for psychopathology.
  2. Discuss the epidemiology, definition, and clinical manifestations of maltreatment.
  3. Demonstrate increased knowledge directly related to child and youth victimization and intervention.
  4. Assess the key clinical realities involved when working with children and youth with a background of childhood maltreatment.
  5. Explain parent-focused intervention and the most promising programs for service delivery when treating abused and/or neglected children and their families.
  6. Utilize clinical tools and resources provided by the authors for use in the assessment of childhood maltreatment.

Course Contents

Learning Objectives

  1. THE ENIGMA OF WOMEN’S SEXUALITY
    1. Opening Pandora’s Box
      • Everyone Knows What Sex Is, Don’t They?
      • If It’s Not Just Intercourse, What Is It?
      • The Meaning of Sexual Meanings
      • The Construction of Sexual Meanings
      • Problematic Meanings
      • Conclusion
  2. CHILDHOOD AND ADOLESCENCE
    1. Teaching the Children
      • “Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice”: Biological Development
      • Girls’ Psychological Development
      • Messages and Meanings
      • Summary and Recommendations
    2. Adolescence: Biological and Psychological Development
      • Biological Development
      • Psychological Development
      • Conclusion
    3. Menstruation: Initiation into Womanhood
      • The Things We Needed Mother “and Dad” to Tell Us: Parental Messages
      • A Friend in Need: Messages of Peers
      • Of Cleanliness and Womanliness: Media Messages
      • Religious and Medical Messages
      • Summary: Problematic Meanings
      • Challenge and Change: Creating New Meanings
      • Conclusion
    4. “Bawdy” Image: From Subject to Object
      • Changing Roles and Expectations: Messages of Significant Others
      • Objects of Desire: Media Messages
      • Summary: Problematic Meanings
      • Challenge and Change: Creating New Meanings
      • Conclusion
    5. Who Loves Ya, Babe?: Sexual Intimacies and Expression
      • Sex as Love: Parental Messages
      • Sex as. Status: The Messages of Peers
      • “Intimate” Partners: Mixed Messages
      • Sex as Surrender: Media Messages
      • Sex as Weapon: Sexual Violence
      • Summary: Problematic Meanings
      • Challenge and Change: Creating New Meanings
      • Conclusion
  3. YOUNG ADULTHOOD
    1. Biological and Psychological Development
      • Biological Development
      • Psychological Development
      • Conclusion
    2. Creating a Life
      • Sexual Invisibility: Messages to Mothers
      • Sexuality as Loss: Messages to Infertile Women
      • Incomplete Sexuality: Messages to the Voluntarily Childless
      • Summary: Problematic Meanings
      • Challenge and Change: Creating New Meanings
    3. In the Prime of Life: Living in Our Bodies
      • Have You Gained a Little Weight Lately?: Messages of Friends and Lovers
      • One Standard of Beauty-Tight, Light, and White: Media Messages
      • Summary: Problematic Meanings
      • Challenge and Change: Creating New Meanings
      • Conclusion
    4. Fanning the Flames of Desire
      • He Shoots, He Scores: The Male Model of Sexual Expression
      • Too Hot to Handle: Media Portrayals of Sex
      • Sexologists: The Purveyors of Scientific “Truths”
      • Intimate Partners: Myths and Miscommunications
      • Summary: Problematic Meanings
      • Challenge and Change: Creating New Meanings
      • Conclusion
  4. THE MIDDLE AND LATER YEARS
    1. Biological and Psychological Development
      • Biological Development during the Middle Years
      • Psychological Development during the Middle Years
      • Biological Development in Later Life: “You’re as Young as You Feel”
      • Psychological Development in Later Life: Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained
    2. When Being “Hot” Takes on New Meaning: Menopause
      • All “Dried” Up: Medical Messages
      • All “Used” Up: Media Messages
      • Secret Shame: Messages of Significant Others
      • Summary: Problematic Meanings
      • Challenge and Change: Creating New Meanings
      • Conclusion
    3. The Festival of Lipid Migration: Bodily Changes and Body Image
      • Forever Young: Media Messages
      • Hourglass Figures, or “Time Is Running Out”: Messages of the Beauty Industry
      • Between Lovers: Messages of Significant Others
      • Between Women
      • Summary: Problematic Meanings
      • Challenge and Change: Creating New Meanings
      • Conclusion
    4. Intimate Connections: Sexual Expression and Relationships
      • The Serviceable Vagina: Medical Messages
      • On the Downhill Slide: Media Images
      • Lovers and Other Strangers: Messages of Significant Others
      • Summary: Problematic Meanings
      • Challenge and Change: Creating New Meanings
      • Conclusion
    5. Coming Full Circle
      • Over the Hill: Medical Messages
      • Rocking Chairs and Apple Pies: Media Messages
      • Intimate Relationships: Messages of Significant Others
      • Intimate Partners: Myths and Miscommunication
      • Summary: Problematic Meanings
      • Challenge and Change: Creating New Meanings
      • Conclusion

Epilogue
Appendix A: The Sexual Development of Children and Adolescents
Appendix B: Body Image and Struggles with Weight
Appendix C: The Aftermath of Sexual Violence
Appendix D: Lesbian Identity and Sexual Orientation
Appendix E: Reproductive Health and Decision Making
Appendix F: Disability and Illness
Appendix G: Issues for Women in the Middle and Later Years
References
Index
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