Cindy M. Meston
Autor(a) de Why Women Have Sex: Understanding Sexual Motivations from Adventure to Revenge (and Everything in Between)
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Fatal error: Call to undefined function isLitsy() in /var/www/html/inc_magicDB.php on line 425- Dr. Meston received a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of British Columbia in 1995. She completed most of her postgraduate training at the University of Washington Medical Center in the departments of Sexual and Reproductive Medicine, Psychiatry, and Urology. In 1998, she accepted a position as Assistant Professor at the University of Texas at Austin and was promoted to Full Professor of Clinical Psychology in 2007.
In addition to her research, Dr. Meston teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses at the University of Texas and supervises numerous graduate students and undergraduate research assistants. She was the 2003 President of the International Society for the Study of Women's Sexual Health, is a Full Member of the International Academy of Sex Research and is a member of the American Psychological Association, the Canadian Psychological Association, and the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality. Dr. Meston's research has appeared in a number of peer-
reviewed academic journals, including Archives of General Psychiatry, the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, the Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Behaviour Research and Therapy, The Journal of Sexual Medicine, the American Journal of Cardiology, Archives of Sexual Behavior, the Journal of Sex Research, and the Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy. She has published over 100 peer reviewed articles and book chapters on women’s sexuality, and given over 200 professional presentations on human sexuality.
Dr. Meston's research on female sexuality has also attracted the attention of both local and national media, having been featured in The New York Times, Newsweek, ABC News' 20/20, NBC , FOX News, the Globe and Mail, and USA Today . She is the recipient of two international research awards, the Social Science Research Council, Ford Foundation, NY Sexuality Research Fellowship, and the Athena Institute for Women's Wellness Inc. research award. For the past 10 years her research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health.
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Why Women Have Sex: Understanding Sexual Motivations… por Cindy M. Meston
Documents how women use sex as a currency. Women need to be empowered so they can overcome the destructive effects their own sexuality imposes. Our culture and "evolutionary" influences regarding sexuality are so negative and divisive! The book starts with the proposition women like sex for the natural/biological benefits but mostly documents the dysfunction of it all. Was hoping as serious students of female sexuality the authors would emphasize the hamster cage dilemma created by prevailing sexual motivations.… (mais)
This is a good reference book, but not conducive to listening over the long term. The conclusions are excellent and the support material first rate. However, those characteristics caused me to read the book a bit at a time, then put it down read/listen to some more later.
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- Obras
- 1
- Membros
- 124
- Popularidade
- #161,165
- Avaliação
- 3.7
- Críticas
- 2
- ISBN
- 11
- Línguas
- 4
