This thesis investigates the social construction of sex/gender in 116 upper primary school students. Particular attention is paid to the Gender Myth - a belief that the manifestation of sex/gender is polarized, that the male half of such a dualism is superior to the female half, that such differentiated sex/gender is grounded in essential biologica...
Published in Journal des anthropologues
This article analyses the results regarding homosexual attraction and practices in recent national surveys of sexual behavior in France and the United States. We found differences in the social attitudes toward homosexuality in the two countries with a much greater acceptance in France, a stronger declaration of homosexual attraction in the U.S. es...
Published in Archives of Sexual Behavior
The sexual age preferences of 192 adults (equal groups of heterosexual men, heterosexual women, homosexual men, and homosexual women) were examined. Participants rated the sexual attractiveness of pictures of 15 male and 15 female faces arranged into five apparent average age categories ranging from 18 to 60 years. It was predicted that homosexual ...
Published in International Journal of Sexuality and Gender Studies
Contemporary British writers Angela Carter, Jeanette Winterson, and Fay Weldon all employ representations of excessive and powerful female characters in their fiction. Although these often monstrous characterizations may be read as posing an onslaught to the notion of the subject, such representations ultimately allow for greater complexity in expl...
Published in Archives of Sexual Behavior
Although biological findings currently dominate the research literature on the determinants of sexual orientation, biological theorizing has not yet spelled out a developmental path by which any of the various biological correlates so far identified might lead to a particular sexual orientation. The Exotic-Becomes-Erotic (EBE) theory of sexual orie...
Published in Archives of Sexual Behavior
One hundred and eighty-four subjects (22 women and 162 men) who were members of two sadomasochistically oriented clubs answered a semistructured questionnaire containing items relating to a variety of sexual behaviors. Using a multivariate statistical analysis that geometrically represents the co-occurrence of individual actions as a visual array (...
Published in International Journal of Sexuality and Gender Studies
Beginning with a description of the two chief wings of the German homosexual emancipation movement in the early twentieth century, the Scientific-Humanitarian Committee and the Community of the Self-Owners, the article shows how Hanns Heinz Ewers's novel, Fundvogel, is a unique combination of seemingly antithetical ideologies. The novel's rather fa...
Les auteurs examinent le destin du lien amoureux adulte en fonction des avatars de l’histoire infantile, plus particulièrement du statut de l’objet et de la relation d’objet au stade préoedipien et oedipien. Ils passent en revue les différents marquages et ratages oedipiens pouvant structurer cette relation et leurs effets sur la nature de l’orient...
The study investigates the depression in a group 55 adults (14 women and 41 men) who live with VJH, between 18 and 58 years, oflow and medium low socioeconomic leve! which attend public health centers, NGO and mutual support groups (MSG) of Lima. The Beck Depression Inventory was used to study the leve! of depression, as well as the five factors fo...
Published in Feminist Legal Studies
In Barclay's Bank v. O'Brien(1993) the House of Lords extended the undue influence rules to heterosexual and homosexual cohabitees, a move that was widely welcomed and has been endorsed in Royal Bank of Scotland v. Etridge (No. 2) (2001). The paper argues that the extension to homosexual couples is inappropriate, since undue influence is largely a ...
