The year 2003 marks the 30th anniversary of the landmark "declassification" of homosexuality as a disease by the American Psychiatric Association--a watershed in the lives of gays and lesbians in the ...United States. For the first time in history, a generation of self-identified lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, and transgender individuals are approaching retirement. This volume brings to the forefront important issues concerning the health, mental health, and concomitant special social service needs of this population and emphasizes the need for more research on aging sexual minorities. Based on empirical and qualitative research methods, chapters focus on the myriad issues of aging for lesbians and gay men including: Social and Cultural Considerations about HIV Among Midlife and Older Gay Men Psychological Well-Being in Midlife Older Gay Men Well-Being Among Middle-Aged and Older Single Gay Men Lesbian Friendships at and Beyond Midlife Contributors include Judith Barker, Jacqueline Weinstock, Bertram Cohler, and Doug Kimmel, among others.
This article reviews the factors of sexual culture formation & stigma in the representation & prevention of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) transmission. Two views of stigma -- insider vs outsider ...meanings & practices -- are contrasted in the history of anthropology & sexuality studies. Changes in ethnography & the understanding of ethnographic method since the rise of the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) epidemic are considered through a series of case studies. The implications of this work for HIV education & interventions surrounding stigma management & community action are summarized. The author advocates the study of stigma as a means to enhance education & prevention efforts in crosscultural research on AIDS. 46 References. Adapted from the source document.
Sexual categories have been conceptually and ideologically questionable since Michel Foucault published "History of Sexuality, vol 1." Historians have delved beyond the classifications of deviance in ...an attempt to understand and explore the cultural, historical, and textual sources of male/female and homosexual/heterosexual analysis.
The magical age of 10 Herdt, G; McClintock, M
Archives of sexual behavior,
12/2000, Letnik:
29, Številka:
6
Journal Article
Recenzirano
Developmental processes of "puberty" and their cultural contexts in understanding the emergence of sexual subjectivity, especially sexual attraction, prior to gonadarche are critically examined. In ...particular, we consider the hypothesis that "sexual attraction" follows the onset of adrenal puberty, termed adrenarche, precipitating the development of stable and memorable attraction toward others approximately by the age of 10. In a prior study, the authors suggested that adrenarche is a significant source of this developmental change in sexuality (McClintock, M., and Herdt, G., 1996). The inferential evidence from New Guinea is compared with recent studies from the United States, including clinical findings on "precocious puberty." We conclude with the question of whether the age of 10 is a human universal in the development of attraction and sexuality.
Talking About Sex Gilbert Herdt
Echoes of the Tambaran,
10/2011
Book Chapter
Odprti dostop
All human societies are concerned with the regulation of sexuality—a truism of anthropology. And all of them, past and present, exert cultural, political, economic and even psychological controls ...over how people talk about sex: when, where, with whom and why—not why they are motivated, but why they must be stopped from sexual discourse. These barriers to sexual communication are created for a variety of reasons—notably, gender power, the strictures on childhood sexual and gender development, the regulation of the development of pleasure, the social control of adult morality and the inhibition of sexual behaviour that violates norms
Introduction Gilbert Herdt
Moral Panics, Sex Panics,
06/2009, Letnik:
8
Book Chapter
Moral panics are the natural disasters of human society, and, like tsunamis and hurricanes, they not only present a crisis for stable social order but also contain much that threatens the well-being ...of individuals and communities.¹ The social context of moral panics, the sense in which individuals and groups are perceived to pose a threat, the political invention and mobilization of this risk in the media and imagination, and whether these panics are spontaneous or socially generated, have long been debated. Such panics and great fears can be short or long term. However, the more serious they are and the
Studying changing attitudes toward marriage rights in the United States, we consider how sexual and gender socialization and changes in values and beliefs regarding homosexuality and marriage ...influence lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and questioning (LGBTQ) youth. We begin by presenting the cultural environment of policies, court decisions, and political maneuvers in response to the question of "same-sex" marriage. In this context, we examine fluctuations of public opinion polling from 1989 to 2009. These issues background our main focus, which is to comment on the emerging, positive research on the resiliency, strength, and future aspirations of LGBTQ youth. Such research was begun in the late-1980s with a significant communitybased, ethnographic study on LGBTQ youth in Chicago. Although similar studies are being done now, more ethnographic research is necessary to build a catalog of data focused on positive traits in response to a deficiency model used in most psychological research on LGBTQ youth. We end by suggesting ways that psychological anthropologists might fruitfully engage with policy studies and advocates through such research.
Gay Marriage Gilbert Herdt
Moral Panics, Sex Panics,
06/2009, Letnik:
8
Book Chapter
The great fear of “gay marriage” in the United States is associated in many people’s minds with the radiant faces of the thousands of lesbian and gay couples standing on the steps of city hall in San ...Francisco, waiting to be married by Mayor Gavin newsom. It was early 2004 and the mayor himself instructed the press that he was spurred on to this revolutionary act by reaction to President George W. Bush’s January 20, 2004, State of the Union address. In the president’s speech he had referred to the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), that restricts marriage to
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