Leanna Wolfe

177 Lovers and Counting (eBook, ePUB)

My Life as a Sex Researcher

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

177 Lovers and Counting: My Life as a Sex Researcher offers a transcultural perspective on gender and sexuality through engaging personal accounts of the author's participant-observation research in multiple countries and cultures across the globe. Dr. Leanna Wolfe draws from anthropology, sexology, evolutionary psychology, and sociology, effortlessly weaving together personal stories along with qualitative and quantitative cross-cultural studies to shed light on relationships, genders, and sexualities. In this autoethnography that is both personal and clinical, Wolfe describes and analyzes personal experiences conducting participant-observation research toward understanding the social context of sex, gender, and relationships. She provides insight through personal, intimate storytelling, revealing many varieties of love, sex, and relationships across cultures and subcultures, and how these insights might impact her readers' lives, just as they have impacted her own.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781538174685
• Artikelnr.: 68428321

Autorenporträt

Leanna Wolfe, PhD's sex research was spirited by coming of age in the thick of the 1970s sexual revolution and feminist movement in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her curiosities and academic appetites led her engage in field research in Mexico, Africa, India and Papua New Guinea. From 1980 to 2018 she worked as a university professor teaching and researching topics ranging from orgasm, multiple partner sexualities and sexual assault. In 2016 she launched Wise Woman Sex and Relationship Consulting, providing counseling through her unique lens of Sexual Anthropology.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Coming Out
A Tale of Two Viruses
What is an Auto-Ethnography?
Ethical Concerns
My Life as an Engaged Anthropologist
177 Lovers-What's in a Number?
Part I - Beginnings
Chapter 1: Erotic Stirrings
Chapter 2: My Parents' World/My World
Chapter 3: Saving It/Losing It
Chapter 4: Orgasm Me-Search/Research
Chapter 5: Am I Gay?
Part II - Stepping Out Into the World as a Young Woman
Chapter 6: The Gringa Studies Machismo
Chapter 7: Discoveries and Dalliances in Late 1970s New York City
Part III - Adult Sex Education
Chapter 8: Learning About Sex
Chapter 9: Forays into Alternative Lifestyles
Tracking BDSM
The Swing Scene
Part IV - Rethinking Marriage
Chapter 10: Researching Singles Culture in Los Angeles
Part V - Engaging Polygamy and Polyamory
Chapter 11: Researching Polygamy in East Africa and Papua New Guinea
Briefly a Polyamorous Triad
Polygyny Field Research in Africa
Papua New Guinea Beckons!
Chapter 12: Researching Sex, Drugs and Polyamory at Burning Man
Part VI - Making it Professional
Chapter 13: Becoming a Sexology Professional
Chapter 14: Learning by Teaching: Insights into Ethnic Generation Gaps
Part VII - Exploring Worlds of the USA
Chapter 15: Studying Cheating from a Multitude of Perspectives
Chapter 16: In Search of Baby Batter
Part VIII - Engaging the Cybersex World
Chapter 17: The Viral Nipple
Chapter 18: The Petrified Sex Goddess
Chapter 19: Working as a Cyber Sexpert
Part IX - The Marriage Question Continues
Chapter 20: Engaging India's Courtship with Love Marriage
Chapter 21: Deconstructing Niger's Marriage Market
Part X - Exploring Other Worlds
Chapter 22: Scoping Out Sexual Tourism in Thailand, Jamaica and Peru
Thailand
Jamaica
Peru
Chapter 23: Engaging Morocco's Gender Divide
Chapter 24: Sorting Out Sex, Culture and Business in China and Cuba
Part XI - Three Full Circle Stories
Chapter 25: Reckoning with #MeToo
Chapter 26: Full Circle Love
Chapter 27: Return to Mexico
Part XII - Conclusion
Chapter 28: Conclusion: Healing Through Culture, History and Context
References
Dr. Leanna Wolfe's Research
Sources Cited
Index
About the Author