Not Under My Roof: Parents, Teens, and the Culture of Sex
10 best books like Not Under My Roof: Parents, Teens, and the Culture of Sex (Amy T. Schalet): Rad Dad: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Fatherhood, What Is Marriage For?: The Strange Social History of Our Most Intimate Institution, Virginity Lost: An Intimate Portrait of First Sexual Experiences, Outdated: Why Dating Is Ruining Your Love Life, What You Really Really Want: The Smart Girl's Shame-Free Guide to Sex and Safety, Brainstorm: The Flaws in the Science of Sex Differences, Shapeshifters: Black Girls and the Choreography of Citizenship, Because I Said So: 33 Mothers Write About Children, Sex, Men, Aging, Faith, Race, and Themselves, Women without Class: Girls, Race, and Identity, Transitions of the Heart: Stories of Love, Struggle and Acceptance by Mothers of Transgender and Gender Variant Children
| Author | Tomas Moniz |
| ISBN | 1604864818 |
Combining the best of the award-winning magazine Rad Dad and the Daddy Dialectic blog, this compilation features the best essays written for fathers by a multitude of dads from different walks of life. Bestselling authors, writers, musicians, and others collaborate on this collection that focuses...
What Is Marriage For?: The Strange Social History of Our Most Intimate Institution
| Author | E.J. Graff |
| ISBN | 0807041351 |
In the wake of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court's historic Goodridge decision, a reissue of the bible of the same-sex marriage movement
Will same-sex couples destroy "traditional" marriage, soon to be followed by the collapse of all civilization? That charge has been leveled throughout...
Virginity Lost: An Intimate Portrait of First Sexual Experiences
| Author | Laura M. Carpenter |
| ISBN | 0814716539 |
Nervous, inexperienced, confused. For most, losing your virginity is one of life's most significant moments, always to be remembered. Of course, experiences vary, but Laura Carpenter asks: Is there an ideal way to lose it? What would constitute a "positive" experience? What often compels the big...
| Author | Samhita Mukhopadhyay |
| ISBN | 1580053327 |
Romance and love are in a state of crisis: Statistically speaking, young women today are living romantic lives of all kinds--but they're still feeling bogged down by social, cultural, economic, and familial pressures to love in a certain way. Young women in the modern world have greater flexibility...
What You Really Really Want: The Smart Girl's Shame-Free Guide to Sex and Safety
| Author | Jaclyn Friedman |
| ISBN | 1580053440 |
In this empowering, accessible guide, Jaclyn Friedman—co-editor of Yes Means Yes—gives young women the tools to decipher the modern world’s confusing, hypersexualized, sometimes dangerous landscape so they can define their own sexual identity. Friedman decries the hypocrisy and mixed...
Brainstorm: The Flaws in the Science of Sex Differences
| Author | Rebecca M. Jordan-Young |
| ISBN | 0674057309 |
Female and male brains are different, thanks to hormones coursing through the brain before birth. That's taught as fact in psychology textbooks, academic journals, and bestselling books. And these hardwired differences explain everything from sexual orientation to gender identity, to why there...
In Shapeshifters Aimee Meredith Cox explores how young Black women in a Detroit homeless shelter contest stereotypes, critique their status as partial citizens, and negotiate poverty, racism, and gender violence to create and imagine lives for themselves. Based on eight years of fieldwork at the...
| Author | Kate Moses |
| ISBN | 0060598794 |
The challenges facing mothers in the twenty-first century go well beyond tantrum control and potty training. Camille Peri and Kate Moses, the founding editors of Salon.com's "Mothers Who Think" column and the subsequent anthology of the same name, have once again compiled a selection of intimate...
| Author | Julie Bettie |
| ISBN | 0520235428 |
In this examination of white and Mexican-American girls coming of age in California's Central Valley, Julie Bettie turns class theory on its head and offers new tools for understanding the ways in which class identity is constructed and, at times, fails to be constructed in relationship to color,...
| Author | Rachel Pepper |
| ISBN | 1573447889 |
Transitions of the Heart is the first collection to ever invite mothers of transgender and gender variant children of all ages to tell their own stories about their child's gender transition. Often "transitioning" socially and emotionally alongside their child but rarely given a voice in the experience,...
Out in the Country: Youth, Media, and Queer Visibility in Rural America
| Author | Mary L. Gray |
| ISBN | 0814731937 |
Winner of the 2009 Ruth Benedict Prize for Outstanding Monograph from the Society of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists
Winner of the 2010 Distinguished Book Award from the American Sociological Association, Sociology of Sexualities Section
Winner of the 2010 Congress Inaugural Qualitative...
The Moral Underground: How Ordinary Americans Subvert an Unfair Economy
| Author | Lisa Dodson |
| ISBN | 1595584722 |
Based on author Lisa Dodson’s eight years of research and conversations with hundreds of Americans about the need to create ethical alternatives to rules that ignore the humanity of working parents and put their children at risk, The Moral Underground features stories of middle class managers...
| Author | Judith Levine |
| ISBN | 1560255161 |
Now available in paperback, Judith Levine's controversial book challenges American attitudes towards child and adolescent sexuality-especially attitudes promulgated by a Christian right that has effectively seized control of how sex is taught in public schools. The author-a thoughtful and...
When Sex Goes to School: Warring Views on Sex--and Sex Education--Since the Sixties
| Author | Kristin Luker |
| ISBN | 0393329968 |
A chronicle of the two decades that noted sociologist Kristin Luker spent following parents in four America communities engaged in a passionate war of ideas and values, When Sex Goes to School explores a conflict with stakes that are deceptively simple and painfully personal. For these parents, the...
The Invention of Heterosexuality
| Author | Jonathan Ned Katz |
| ISBN | 0452275423 |
“Heterosexuality,” assumed to denote a universal sexual and cultural norm, has been largely exempt from critical scrutiny. In this boldly original work, Jonathan Ned Katz challenges the common notion that the distinction between heterosexuality and homosexuality has been a timeless one. ...
Dilemmas of Desire: Teenage Girls Talk about Sexuality
| Author | Deborah L. Tolman |
| ISBN | 0674018567 |
Be sexy but not sexual. Don't be a prude but don't be a slut. These are the cultural messages that barrage teenage girls. In movies and magazines, in music and advice columns, girls are portrayed as the object or the victim of someone else's desire--but virtually never as someone with acceptable sexual...
Public Vows: A History of Marriage and the Nation (Revised)
| Author | Nancy F. Cott |
| ISBN | 0674008758 |
We commonly think of marriage as a private matter between two people, a personal expression of love and commitment. In this pioneering history, Nancy F. Cott demonstrates that marriage is and always has been a public institution.
From the founding of the United States to the present day, imperatives...
Dude, You're a Fag: Masculinity and Sexuality in High School
| Author | C.J. Pascoe |
| ISBN | 0520252306 |
High school and the difficult terrain of sexuality and gender identity are brilliantly explored in this smart, incisive ethnography. Based on eighteen months of fieldwork in a racially diverse working-class high school, Dude, You're a Fag sheds new light on masculinity both as a field of meaning...
For Goodness Sex: Changing the Way We Talk to Teens About Sexuality, Values, and Health
| Author | Alfred Vernacchio |
| ISBN | 0062269518 |
A progressive, effective, and responsible approach to sex education for parents and teens that challenges traditional teaching models and instead embraces 21st century realities by promoting healthy sexuality, values, and body image in young people
Sex education today generally falls...
The Woman in the Body: A Cultural Analysis of Reproduction
| Author | Emily Martin |
| ISBN | 0807046450 |
A bold reappraisal of science and society, The Woman in the Body explores the different ways that women's reproduction is seen in American culture. Contrasting the views of medical science with those of ordinary women from diverse social and economic backgrounds, anthropologist Emily Martin presents...
The Smart Girl's Guide to Porn
The secret is out: Women watch porn. A recent study by Glamour magazine found that 87 percent of women ages 25 to 39 enjoy porn as part of their self-defined healthy sexual lifestyles — even more than use sex toys.
In The Smart Girl’s Guide to Porn, acclaimed sex educator Violet Blue offers hip,...
My Mother Wears Combat Boots: A Parenting Guide for the Rest of Us
| Author | Jessica Mills |
| ISBN | 1904859720 |
A parenting guide like no other! Jessica Mills, a touring punk musician, artist, and political activist, gives readers a delightful, information-packed guide to having and raising kids without giving up your politics, art, or life.
Disappointed by run-of-the-mill parenting books that...
The End of Sex: How Hookup Culture is Leaving a Generation Unhappy, Sexually Unfulfilled, and Confused About Intimacy
| Author | Donna Freitas |
| ISBN | 0465002153 |
Hookup culture dominates the lives of college students today, and many feel great pressure to engage in it. This pressure comes from all directions—from peers, the media, and even parents. But how do these expectations affect students themselves? And why aren’t parents and universities helping...
Hard Core: Power, Pleasure, and the "Frenzy of the Visible"
| Author | Linda Williams |
| ISBN | 0520219430 |
In this now-classic study, Linda Williams moves beyond the impasse of the anti-porn/anti-censorship debate to analyze what hard-core film pornography is and does—as a genre with a history, as a specific cinematic form, and as part of contemporary discourse on sexuality. For the 1999 edition,...
