Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Human Sexuality

"Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Human Sexuality" is a unique textbook that provides a broad analysis of this crucial basic aspect of life. Utilizing viewpoints across cultural and national boundaries, and incorporating evolutionary and psychological perspectives, four major lines of evidence and knowledge are comprehensively discussed, including: evolutionary theory, primatology, the cross-cultural record and contemporary issues, and emphasizing anthropological contributions while incorporating psycho-social perspectives.Taking into account the evolution of human anatomy, sexual behavior, attitudes, and beliefs, this far-reaching resource goes beyond what is found in standard United States culture, presenting a wide diversity of beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors found globally.In addition to providing a rich array of photographs, illustrations, tables, an extensive bibliography, and a helpful glossary of terms, topics discussed in "Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Human Sexuality: Biological, Psychological, and Cultural Understandings" include: modern human male and female anatomy and physiology pregnancy and childbirth as a bio-cultural experience; life-course issues related to gender identity, sexual orientations, behaviors, and lifestyles influences on socioeconomic, political, historical, and ecological systems of sexual behavior; evolutionary history of human sexuality; early childhood sexuality, puberty and adolescence human sexual response; birth control, fertility, conception, and sexual differentiation; and, HIV infection, AIDS, AIDS globalization and sex work. Fusing biological, socio-psychological, and cultural influences to offer an original perspective to understanding human sexuality, its development over millions of years of evolution, and how sexuality is embedded in specific socio-cultural contexts, it is an important text for educators and students in a variety of human sexuality courses.