Encyclopedia of sex and gender / Fedwa Malti-Douglas, editor-in-chief.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Malti-Douglas, Fedwa, editor.

Series:

Macmillan social science library.

Macmillan Social Science Library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex--Encyclopedias.

Sex.

Sex--Cross-cultural studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1710 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Detroit, Michigan : Macmillan Reference USA, 2007.

Summary:

Addresses issues of sex and gender at the personal and the social level; examines issues of identity, status, class, ethnicity, race, and nation; of sexuality and the body; of social institutions and the structures of representation. Topics include changing conceptions of "the feminine, " the family and masculinity, religion, morality, cultural images, medical practice, public health, economy and society and many more.

Contents:

Volume 1. A-C

Volume 2. D-I

Volume 3. J-P

Volume 4. Q-Z.

Vol. 1. 'A'isha; Abortion, Legal and Political Issues; Abortion, Medical Issues; Abstinence; Adam and Eve; Adolescent Sexuality; Adultery; Advertising; Africa: I. History; Africa: II. Political and Cultural Agendas; Africa: III. Art and Literature; Africa: IV. Religions; Afrocentrism; Afterglow; AIDS and HIV: I. Overview; AIDS and HIV: II. History; AIDS and HIV: III. Effects on Population; AIDS and HIV: IV. Treatments and Prevention; AIDS and HIV: V. Social and Political Responses; Alan of Lille; Allegory; Amazons; Anahita; Ancient Greece; Ancient Rome; Androgyny; Animals, Sexual Symbolism of; Anorgasmic; Anthropology; Aphrodite; Aquinas, Thomas; Arabian Nights; Aristotle; Arousal; Art; Art, Drama/Performance; Artemis Diana; Artificial Insemination; Artists, Women; Asexuality; Athena; Automobiles; Avuncular; Backroom; Baha'i Faith; Baker, Jos¿phine; Baldwin, James; Barbie; Baths, Public: I. Greco-Roman; Baths, Public: II. Muslim Middle East; Baths, Public: III. West, Middle Ages

Present; Beard; Beatrice; Beatrice of the Kongo; Beauty Pageants; Beauvoir, Simone de; Beguines; Behn, Aphra; Betty Boop; Bible, New Testament; Bible, Old Testament or Tanakh; Big Bad Wolf; Bijoux Indiscrets; Bingen, Hildegard of; Biology; Birth; Bisexuality; Black Arts Movement; Blaxploitation Films; Blood; Blues; Boccaccio, Giovanni; Body Image; Body Modifications; Body, Depictions and Metaphors; Body, Theories of; Bogomils and Cathars; Bonaparte, Marie; Bondage and Discipline; Bosch, Hieronymus; Boswell, John; Boys, Construction of Brain; Brant¿me; Buddhism; Bugger, Buggery; Bulldagger; Bundling; Burchard of Worms; Burlesque; Butch/Femme; Buttocks; Byzantium; Call Girl; Camille, Michael; Camp; Cancer, Breast; Cancer, Prostate; Cannibalism; Canon Law; Canon, Revising the; Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi da; Carlini, Benedetta; Casanova; Castrati; Castration; Catalina de Erauso; Catherine the Great; Catholicism; Celestina; Celibacy; Cellini, Benvenuto; Censorship; Chastity; Chastity Belt; Chat Room; Chaucer, Geoffrey; Chicana Movement; Childcare; Childhood Sexuality; China: I. Pre-Modern; China: II. Modern; China: III. Erotic Art; China: IV. Erotic Literature; China: V. Women's Roles in Modern; Christ; Christianity, Early and Medieval; Christianity, Reformation to Modern; Circuit Party; Circumcision, Male; Cleopatra; Clitoris; Closets; Clothing; Codpiece; Coitus; Colette, Sidonie-Gabrielle; Colonialism; Comics Code; Comics/Comic Strips; Coming Out; Communism and Marxism; Computers; Concubinage; Conduct Books; Confucianism; Contraception: I. Overview; Contraception: II. Beliefs and Myths; Contraception: III. Methods; Contraception: IV. Relation to Sexual Practices and Gender Roles; Contraception: V. Policies and Effects; Coprophilia; Courtesans; Courtly Love, Western; Creation Stories; Cruising;

Vol. 2. Daddy; Dahomey, Women Warriors/Wives of the King; Damian, Peter; Dance; Dandyism; Dante Alighieri; Daoism (Taoism); Date Rape Drugs; Dating; Daughter of the Nile Union; Daughters of Bilitis; Death; Demography: I. America and Europe; Demography: II. Australia; Demography: III. Middle East and North Africa; Demography: IV. Asia; Demography: V. Africa; Desire, as Historical Category; Dietrich, Marlene; Dildo; Disability, Fetishization of; Disability, Sex and; Divine; Domestic Partnership; Domestic Violence; Domination; Don Juan; Drag Kings; Drag Queens; Dreams and Eroticism; Dream Books; Drugs, Recreational; Dulcinea; Dwarves and Giants; Dyke; Eating Disorders; Ecofeminism; Economics; Education: I. Gender in America; Education: II. GLBT Issues; Education: III. International Issues; Effeminacy; Egypt, Pharaonic; Egyptian Feminist Union; Ejaculation; Elderly, Sex Among; Eleno; Elizabeth I; Ellis, Henry Havelock; Employment Discrimination; Enlightenment; Erectile Tissue; Erection; Erogenous Zones; Eros, Cupid; Erotic Art; Erotic Photography; Erotic Transference; Erotic/Adult Comics; Eroticism, Urethral; Espionage; Esquire; Essentialism; Esther; Eunuchs; Exhibitionism; Fabliaux; Fairy Tales; Family; Family Leave Act; Family Planning; Family, Alternative; Fanny Hill; Fap; Farrokhzad, Foruq; Fascism; Fashion System; Fatherhood; Fatima; Female; Female Genital Mutilation; Feminism: I. African (Sub-Saharan); Feminism: II. Asian; Feminism: III. Middle Eastern; Feminism: IV. Western; Femme; Fertility; Film, Gender and Eroticism: I. History; Film, Gender and Eroticism: II. Art and Auteur Cinema; Film, Gender and Eroticism: III. Cult and Marginal Cinema; Film, Gender and Eroticism: IV. Lesbian, Gay, and Queer Film; Flirting; Folk Beliefs and Rituals; Folk Healers and Healing; Folklore; Food; Foot Binding; Fops; Foreplay; Fornication; Fotonovelas; Foucault, Michel; Freud, Sigmund; Friendships, Passionate; Frigidity; Frottage; Fundamentalism; Funerary Customs, Non-Western; Funerary Customs, Western; Furries; G.I. Joe; Galen; Ganymede; Garland, Judy; Gay; Gaze; Gender Confusion; Gender Dysphoria; Gender Identity; Gender Roles: I. Overview; Gender Roles: II. History; Gender Roles: III. Contemporary Understanding Gender Roles: IV. Feminist and Gay/Lesbian Perspectives; Gender Stereotype; Gender Studies; Gender, Theories of; Genet, Jean; Genetics and Gender; Genitalia, as Apotropaic; Genitals, Female; Genitals, Male; Gentileschi, Artemisia; Gigolo; Girls, Construction of; Gnosticism; Goddess Worship; Goddesses, Earth; Goddesses, Mother; Gouges, Olympe de; Greco-Roman Art; G-Spot; Guilt; Gynaeceum; Gypsy Rose Lee; Hair; Hall, Radclyffe; Harassment, Sexual; Harems; Harlem Renaissance; Hate Crimes; Heloise and Abelard; Hermaphrodites; History and Historiography, Modern; Hite Report; Hokhma; Homoaffectivity, Concept; Homoeroticism, Female/Male, Concept; Homophobia; Homosexuality in the Christian Church; Homosexuality, Contemporary: I. Overview; Homosexuality, Contemporary: II. History; Homosexuality, Contemporary: III. Cultural Functions; Homosexuality, Contemporary: IV. Issues; Homosexuality, Defined; Homosexuality, Male, History of; Honor and Shame; Honor Crimes; Hormones: I. Overview; Hormones: II. Sex Hormones; Hormones: III. Hormonal Diseases; Houri; Hustler; Hysterectomy; Ibsen, Henrik; Ide and Olive; Immaculate Conception; Impotency; Inanna-Ishtar; Incest; Infanticide; Infantile Sexuality; Infertility; Initiation; Inquisition, Spanish; Internet; Intersex; Intimacy; Iron, Gendered Symbolism; Isis; Islam; Israelite Society;

Vol. 3. Jainism

Japan

Jazz

Jeh

Jewish Tradition, Gender, and Women

Jewish Women's Leagues

Jinn

Joan of Arc c. 1412-1431

Joseph Story, The

Judaism

Judaism, Gender and Queering

Judith

Juvenal c. 55-127

Kahlo, Frida 1907-1954

Kali

Kama and the Kama Sutra

Kept

Khadija 565-619

King Henry III of France 1551-1589

Kinky

Kinsey, Alfred C. 1894-1956

Kiss, Pre-Modern

Kiss, Modern

Kollontai, Alexandra 1872-1952

Krafft-Ebing, Richard 1840-1902

Labor and Workforce in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East

Lacan, Jacques 1901-1981

Ladyboys (Kathoeys)

Lady Chatterley's Lover

Lady Macbeth

Language

Lawrence, D.H. 1885-1930

Le Roman de Silence

Legends and Myths

Lesbian, Contemporary

Lesbianism

Lesbian-Like

Lesbos

Lewinsky Affair

Liberace 1919-1987

Libido

Lilith

Literature

Little Red Riding Hood

Lolita

Lorde, Audre 1934-1992

Love-Devotional and Erotic

Love Poetry

Lubricant

Lust

Madwoman in the Attic

Magic

Maiden

Mail-Order Brides

Making Out

Male

Male Bonding

Malinche c. 1505-1550

Manichaeism

Manliness

Manly (Masculine) Woman

Mapplethorpe, Robert 1946-1989

Marbod of Rennes c. 1035-1123

Marginalia in Medieval Manuscripts

Marie Antoinette 1755-1793

Marriage

Marriage, Spiritual

Marriage Bed, Rituals of

Martyrdom

Mary Magdalene

Mary, Mother of Jesus

Masculinity

Masturbation

Matriarchy

Matrilineality

Maya

Media

Medicine, Ancient

Medusa

Melancholia and Sex

Ménage à Trois

Menarche, Cultural and Spiritual Meanings

Menarche, Physiology and Psychology

Menopause

Men's Movements

Men's Studies

Menstruation

Mermaid

Metrosexuals

Michelangelo 1475-1564

Middle Ages

Midwife

Mignons

Military

Miller, Henry 1891-1980

Miscegenation

Missionary Position

Mistress

Mithraism

Monasticism

Monogamy

Monroe, Marilyn 1926-1962

Motherhood

Motorcycles and Motorcycle Cultures

Mucous Membranes

Music

Music, Women in Muslim Africa

Music Videos

Mysticism

Narcissism

Nationalism

Necrophilia

Nefandum

Nefertiti 1390 BCE-1360 BCE

Neuter

New Religions, Women's Roles in

Nin, Anaïs 1903-1977

Nomadism

Nose

Nude in Visual Arts

Nudist Camps

Nymphomania

Obscene

Oedipus, Myth of

Onanism

One-Child One-Family Policy

One-Sex Theory

Opera

Oracles

Oral Sex

Orgasm

Orgy

Other, Constructing the

Ovid 43 BCE-17 CE

Pasolini, Pier Paolo 1922-1975

Passing (Woman)

Patriarchy

Patrilineality

Pattini

Paul (Saint) 5 BCE-67 CE

Pederasty

Pedophilia

Peep Shows

Penance

Penetration

Penis

Penis Extenders

Penthouse

Performance Enhancers

Personals

Perversity, Polymorphous

Petting

Philosophy

Philosophy, Feminist

Phone Sex

Physical Culture

Piercings

Pilgrimages

Pin-Ups

Pizan, Christine de 1364-1430

Planned Parenthood

Plants, Sexual Symbolism of

Platt Lynes, George 1907-1955

Plato c. 427-347 BCE

Playboy

Pleasure

Political Satire

Politics

Porneia

Pornography

Possession

Prayer

Predator, Sexual

Pregnancy

Pre-Raphaelism/Symbolism

Presley, Elvis 1935-1977

Priesthoods, Priests, and Priestesses

Prison, Detention, and Correctional Institutions

Privacy

Production Code (Hays Code)

Prostitution

Protestantism

Psychiatry

Psychoanalysis

Puberty.

Vol. 4. Queen

Queen of Sheba, Myth of

Queens

Queens, Power and Sexuality

Queer

Queering, Queer Theory, and Early Modern Culture

Rabelais, François 1483-1553

Raffalovich, Marc-André 1864-1934

Rape

Rap Music

Reich, Wilhelm 1897-1957

Religion, Study of

Renaissance

Renault, Mary 1905-1983

Rent Boy

Reproduction (Procreation)

Reproductive Technologies

Rock and Roll

Romance of the Rose

Romeo and Juliet

Rosie the Riveter

Rough Music

Royalty

Rubens, Peter Paul 1577-1640

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold von 1836-1895

Sade, Marquis de 1740-1814

Sadism

Sadomasochism

Saints, Male and Female

Salome

Salsa

Same-Sex Love and Sex, Terminology

Sand, George 1804-1876

Sanger, Margaret 1879-1966

Sappho c. 625-570 BCE

Satisfaction

Satyriasis

Scatology

Scottsboro Case

Scouts, Boy and Girl

Seduction

Sex

Sex Aids

Sex and Empire

Sex Crimes

Sex Industry

Sex Manuals, Ancient World

Sex Manuals, China

Sex Manuals, India

Sex Manuals, Islam

Sex Manuals, Japan

Sex Manuals, Old and Modern West

Sex Museums

Sex Museums, Chinese

Sex, Race, and Power: An Intersectional Study

Sex Research

Sex Roles

Sex Shop

Sex Symbol

Sex Tourism

Sexology

Sexual Abuse

Sexual Education

Sexual Fantasy

Sexual Identity

Sexual Instinct

Sexual Inversion

Sexual Literacy

Sexual Objects

Sexual Orientation

Sexual Perversion

Sexual Practices

Sexual Revolution

Sexual Subcultures

Sexual Tension

Sexuality

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Shakespeare, William 1564-1616

Shamanism

Sha'rawi, Huda 1879-1947

Shekhinah, God's Bride

Shepard, Matthew Wayne 1976-1998

Shintoism

Sikhism

Sin Contra Naturam

Slang, Sexual

Slavery

Snuff Films

Sodom and Gomorrah

Sodomy

Sodomy Laws

Sodomy, Repression of

Song of Songs

Sophia

Space, Public and Private

Spinster

Sports

Star-Crossed Lovers

Stein, Gertrude and Alice B. Toklas 1874-1946 and 1877-1967

Sterilization

Stonewall

Story of O

Strange Fruit

Suffrage

Superheroes

Surrogates, Sexual

Susanna at Her Bath

Svengali

Swinging

Switchhitter

Symbolism

Syphilis

Tantra

Tattooing

Temptation of Saint Anthony (Image)

Terrorism

Third Sex

Throat

Tiamat

Till, Emmett Louis 1941-1955

Tiresias

Toilets, Public

Tomboy

Tongue

Top/Bottom

Toys

Trafficking of Women

Trannie Whore

Transgender

Transsexual F to M

Transsexual M to F

Transvestism

Tribadism, Historical

Tribadism, Modern

Trojan Women

Umoja

Uranians

Uterus

Vagina

Vampires

Vampirism

Van Gulik, Robert 1910-1967

Vargas, Alberto 1896-1982

Veiling

Venus

Venus de Milo

Verniolle, Arnaud de Fourteenth Century

Vestal Virgin

Vetula, Old Whore

Violence

Virginity

Voyeurism

War

Warhol, Andy 1928-1987

Watersports

Welfare

West, Mae 1893-1980

Wet Dream

Wet Nurses

Whitman, Walt 1819-1892

Whore

Widows and Widowers

Wilde, Oscar 1854-1900

Witch Trials, Europe

Witchcraft

Wollstonecraft, Mary 1759-1797

Women Writers, Emergence

Women's Human Rights

Women's Studies

Wonder Woman

Woolf, Virginia 1882-1941

X (Rated)

Yin and Yang

YMCA/YWCA

Yoga

Yoni Worship

Zenobia Third Century

Zhang, Jingsheng 1888-1970

Zoroastrianism.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780028661155

9780028664071

0028664078