Sexual scripts : the social construction of female sexuality / Judith Long Laws, Pepper Schwartz.
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Dryden Press,
℗♭1977.
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Table of Contents:
- ch. 1. Introduction
- The social construction of female sexuality
- Sexual scripts as social institutions
- Emergence of social constructions
- Subjective reality and socialization
- Identity and sexual identity
- Constructions of female sexuality
- References
- ch. 2. Female sexual identity
- Sexual identity
- Stage 1 : prenatal events
- Stage 2 : childhood
- Stage 3 : sexual identity during puberty
- Stage 4 : sexual initiation and active genital sexuality
- Stage 5 : fertility
- Stage 6 : postfertility
- References
- ch. 3. Woman's body, woman's mind : biological, psychological, and social interactions
- Rejecting biology as destiny
- The menstrual syndrome : truth or fiction?
- Pregnancy, birth, and the postpartum period
- Menopause
- References
- ch. 4. Sexual transactions
- Courtship and dating scripts
- Sexual transactions in dating
- Competing standards of behavior
- The traditional courtship script
- Alternative transactions : rejecting the dating script
- Sexual transactions within marriage
- Alternative marital transactions
- Prostitution
- Cruising : the singles scene
- References.
- ch. 5. Sexual life-styles
- Female sexuality and the female sexual life-style
- The marriage institution
- Extramarital sexuality
- The nonmonogamous marriage : comarital sexuality and swinging
- The single life
- Single motherhood and nonmotherhood
- Childfree sexual life-styles
- Nonheterosexual options
- A new sexual ideology
- References
- ch. 6. Women as sexual criminals and victims
- Women and crime
- Women as victims
- Conclusion
- References
- ch. 7. Conclusion
- Sexual scripts
- Future change?
- Sexual pluralism
- Private and public constructions of reality
- Future research : an agenda
- A challenge to the reader
- References
- Index.