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| most promiscuous women in history: The Trials of Nina McCall Scott W. Stern, 2018-05-15 The nearly forgotten story of the fight against the American Plan, a government program designed to regulate women’s bodies and sexuality “A consistently surprising page-turner . . . a brilliant study of the way social anxieties have historically congealed in state control over women’s bodies and behavior.” —New York Times Book Review Nina McCall was one of many women unfairly imprisoned by the United States government throughout the twentieth century. Tens, probably hundreds, of thousands of women and girls were locked up—usually without due process—simply because officials suspected these women were prostitutes, carrying STIs, or just “promiscuous.” This discriminatory program, dubbed the “American Plan,” lasted from the 1910s into the 1950s, implicating a number of luminaries, including Eleanor Roosevelt, John D. Rockefeller Jr., Earl Warren, and even Eliot Ness, while laying the foundation for the modern system of women’s prisons. In some places, vestiges of the Plan lingered into the 1960s and 1970s, and the laws that undergirded it remain on the books to this day. Nina McCall’s story provides crucial insight into the lives of countless other women incarcerated under the American Plan. Stern demonstrates the pain and shame felt by these women and details the multitude of mortifications they endured, both during and after their internment. Yet thousands of incarcerated women rioted, fought back against their oppressors, or burned their detention facilities to the ground; they jumped out of windows or leapt from moving trains or scaled barbed-wire fences in order to escape. And, as Nina McCall did, they sued their captors. In an age of renewed activism surrounding harassment, health care, prisons, women’s rights, and the power of the state, this virtually lost chapter of our history is vital reading. |
| most promiscuous women in history: Bad Girls from History Dee Gordon, 2017-09-30 This “lively” study of female lawbreakers across centuries and cultures is “chock full of disquieting stories and truly twisted personalities” (Booklist). Organized A-to-Z under six categories, this book offers insight into the lives and minds of women in different centuries and different countries, with diverse cultures and backgrounds from the poverty-stricken to royalty, who have defied law and order and social taboos. Read about mistresses, murderers, smugglers, pirates, prostitutes, and fanatics with hearts and souls that feature every shade of black (and gray!). From Cleopatra to Ruth Ellis, from Boudicca to Bonnie Parker, from Lady Caroline Lamb to Moll Cutpurse, from Jezebel to Ava Gardner—as well as less familiar names like Victorian brothel-keeper Mary Jeffries, American gambler and horse thief Belle Starr, and La Voisin, the seventeenth-century Queen of all Witches in France—you’ll find a variety of women from the daring and outrageous to the desperate to the downright evil. Wicked? Misunderstood? Naïve? Foolish? Predatory? Manipulative? Or just rebellious? Read their stories and decide. “[A] rollicking survey of 100 female renegades . . . this compendium of historical trivia is a lot of fun to read.” —Publishers Weekly Includes photos and illustrations |
| most promiscuous women in history: Scandalous Women Elizabeth Kerri Mahon, 2011-03-01 Throughout history women have caused wars, defied the rules, and brought men to their knees. The famous and the infamous, queens, divorcées, actresses, and outlaws have created a ruckus during their lifetimes-turning heads while making waves. Scandalous Women tells the stories of the risk takers who have flouted convention, beaten the odds, and determined the course of world events. *When Cleopatra (69 BC-30 BC) wasn't bathing in asses' milk, the last pharaoh of the Ptolemaic dynasty ruled Egypt and forged an important political alliance with Rome against her enemies-until her dalliance with Marc Antony turned the empire against her. *Emilie du Châtelet (1706-1748), a mathematician, physicist, author, and paramour of one of the greatest minds in France, Voltaire, shocked society with her unorthodox lifestyle and intellectual prowess-and became a leader in the study of theoretical physics in France at a time when the sciences were ruled by men. *Long before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the bus, Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862-1928) fought to end discrimination and the terrible crime of lynching and helped found the NAACP, but became known as a difficult woman for her refusal to compromise and was largely lost in the annals of history. *Gertrude Bell (1868-1926) had a passion for archaeology and languages, and left her privileged world behind to become one of the foremost chroniclers of British imperialism in the Middle East, and one of the architects of the modern nation of Iraq. |
| most promiscuous women in history: Promiscuity Tim Birkhead, 2000 Birkhead reveals a world in which males and females vie with each other as they strive to maximize their reproductive success. Color illustrations. |
| most promiscuous women in history: Funerals to Die For Kathy Benjamin, 2013-03-18 True stories that put the, er, fun back into funerals! The hereafter may still be part of the great unknown, but with Funerals to Die For you can unearth the rich--and often, dark--history of funeral rites. From getting a portrait painted with a loved one's ashes to purchasing a safety coffin complete with bells and breathing tubes, this book takes you on a whirlwind tour of funeral customs and trivia from all over the globe. Inside, you'll find more than 100 unbelievable traditions, practices, and facts, such as: The remains of a loved one can be launched into deep space for only $1,000. In Taiwan, strippers are hired to entertain funeral guests throughout the ceremony. Undertakers for the Tongan royal family weren't allowed to use their hands for 100 days after preparing a king's body. In the late 1800s, New Englanders would gulp down a cocktail of water and their family member's ashes in order to keep them from returning as vampires. Whether you fear being buried alive or just have a morbid curiosity of the other side, Funerals to Die For examines what may happen when another person dies. |
| most promiscuous women in history: American Women's History Susan Ware, 2015 What does American history look like with women at the center of the story? From Pocahantas to military women serving in the Iraqi war, this Very Short Introduction chronicles the contributions that women have made to the American experience from a multicultural perspective that emphasizes how gender shapes women's--and men's--lives. |
| most promiscuous women in history: Carnal Knowledge Martin Ingram, 2017-03-23 How was the law used to control sex in Tudor England? What were the differences between secular and religious practice? This major study, based on a wide range of church and secular court archives, explores sexual regulation in London and provincial England before, during and immediately after the Reformation. |
| most promiscuous women in history: The Long Sexual Revolution Hera Cook, 2004-02-05 In this book Hera Cook traces the path of sexuality in England, and shows how its route was determined by the gradual exertion of control over fertility. Most sexual activity had major economic and social costs, the most fundamental of which was the physical cost of children upon women's bodies. Around 1800 birth rates reached historical heights. Using a combination of demographic and qualitative sources, Dr Cook examines the connection between the struggle to lower fertility and the increasing repression of sexuality throughout the nineteenth century. Contraception became a viable option in the early twentieth century. The book charts the resulting slow relaxation of attitudes to sexuality and the remaking of heterosexual physical behaviour, culminating in the sexual revolution of the 1960s. |
| most promiscuous women in history: Promiscuities Naomi Wolf, 1998 In Promiscuities, Naomi Wolf has written an exceptionally frank sexual memoir of an individual and a generation, and a call to women not only to reclaim but to celebrate their own sexual experiences, desires and histories. |
| most promiscuous women in history: I, Claudius Robert Graves, 2014-03-06 “One of the really remarkable books of our day”—the story of the Roman emperor on which the award-winning BBC TV series was based (The New York Times). Once a rather bookish young man with a limp and a stammer, a man who spent most of his time trying to stay away from the danger and risk of the line of ascension, Claudius seemed an unlikely candidate for emperor. Yet, on the death of Caligula, Claudius finds himself next in line for the throne, and must stay alive as well as keep control. Drawing on the histories of Plutarch, Suetonius, and Tacitus, noted historian and classicist Robert Graves tells the story of the much-maligned Emperor Claudius with both skill and compassion. Weaving important themes throughout about the nature of freedom and safety possible in a monarchy, Graves’s Claudius is both more effective and more tragic than history typically remembers him. A bestselling novel and one of Graves’ most successful, I, Claudius has been adapted to television, film, theatre, and audio. “[A] legendary tale of Claudius . . . [A] gem of modern literature.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) |
| most promiscuous women in history: Soul Mates W. Bradford Wilcox, Nicholas H. Wolfinger, 2016-01-04 In 1994, David Hernandez, a small-time drug-dealer in Spanish Harlem, got out of the drug business and turned his life over to God. After he joined Victory Chapel-a vibrant Bronx-based Pentecostal church-he saw his life change in many ways: today he is a member of the NYPD, married, the father of three, and still an active member of his church. David Hernandez is just one of the many individuals whose stories inform Soul Mates, which draws on both national surveys and in-depth interviews to paint a detailed portrait of the largely positive influence exercised by churches on relationships and marriage among African Americans and Latinos-and whites as well. Soul Mates shines a much-needed spotlight on the lives of strong and happy minority couples. Wilcox and Wolfinger find that both married and unmarried minority couples who attend church together are significantly more likely to enjoy happy relationships than black and Latino couples who do not regularly attend. They argue that churches serving these communities promote a code of decency encompassing hard work, temperance, and personal responsibility that benefits black and Latino families. Wilcox and Wolfinger provide a compelling look at faith and family life among blacks and Latinos. The book offers a wealth of critical insight into the effect of religion on minority relationships, as well as the unique economic and cultural challenges facing African American and Latino families in twenty-first-century America. |
| most promiscuous women in history: Bad Girls Amanda H. Littauer, 2015-07-17 In this innovative and revealing study of midcentury American sex and culture, Amanda Littauer traces the origins of the sexual revolution of the 1960s. She argues that sexual liberation was much more than a reaction to 1950s repression because it largely involved the mainstreaming of a counterculture already on the rise among girls and young women decades earlier. From World War II–era victory girls to teen lesbians in the 1940s and 1950s, these nonconforming women and girls navigated and resisted intense social and interpersonal pressures to fit existing mores, using the upheavals of the era to pursue new sexual freedoms. Building on a new generation of research on postwar society, Littauer tells the history of diverse young women who stood at the center of major cultural change and helped transform a society bound by conservative sexual morality into one more open to individualism, plurality, and pleasure in modern sexual life. |
| most promiscuous women in history: A Pocket History of Sex in the Twentieth Century Jane Vandenburgh, 2010-11 In the midst of private trauma and loss' Vandenburgh delights in revealing large truths about American culture and her life within it. Quirky' witty' and uncannily wise' A Pocket History of Sex in the Twentieth Century is a brilliant blend of memoir and cultural revelation. |
| most promiscuous women in history: A Natural History of Rape Randy Thornhill, Craig T. Palmer, 2001-02-23 A biologist and an anthropologist use evolutionary biology to explain the causes and inform the prevention of rape. In this controversial book, Randy Thornhill and Craig Palmer use evolutionary biology to explain the causes of rape and to recommend new approaches to its prevention. According to Thornhill and Palmer, evolved adaptation of some sort gives rise to rape; the main evolutionary question is whether rape is an adaptation itself or a by-product of other adaptations. Regardless of the answer, Thornhill and Palmer note, rape circumvents a central feature of women's reproductive strategy: mate choice. This is a primary reason why rape is devastating to its victims, especially young women. Thornhill and Palmer address, and claim to demolish scientifically, many myths about rape bred by social science theory over the past twenty-five years. The popular contention that rapists are not motivated by sexual desire is, they argue, scientifically inaccurate. Although they argue that rape is biological, Thornhill and Palmer do not view it as inevitable. Their recommendations for rape prevention include teaching young males not to rape, punishing rape more severely, and studying the effectiveness of chemical castration. They also recommend that young women consider the biological causes of rape when making decisions about dress, appearance, and social activities. Rape could cease to exist, they argue, only in a society knowledgeable about its evolutionary causes. The book includes a useful summary of evolutionary theory and a comparison of evolutionary biology's and social science's explanations of human behavior. The authors argue for the greater explanatory power and practical usefulness of evolutionary biology. The book is sure to stir up discussion both on the specific topic of rape and on the larger issues of how we understand and influence human behavior. |
| most promiscuous women in history: Sex at Dawn Christopher Ryan, Cacilda Jetha, 2011-07-05 In this controversial, thought-provoking, and brilliant book, renegade thinkers Christopher Ryan and Cacilda JethÁ debunk almost everything we “know” about sex, weaving together convergent, frequently overlooked evidence from anthropology, archaeology, primatology, anatomy, and psychosexuality to show how far from human nature monogamy really is. In Sex at Dawn, the authors expose the ancient roots of human sexuality while pointing toward a more optimistic future illuminated by our innate capacities for love, cooperation, and generosity. |
| most promiscuous women in history: When Women Were Priests Karen J. Torjesen, 1995-04-15 This landmark book reveals not only that women were priests, bishops, and prophets in early Christianity, but also how and why they were then suppressed. |
| most promiscuous women in history: The Evolution of Human Sexuality Donald Symons, 1979-08-30 Anthropology, Sexual Studies, Psychology, Sociology, Gender and Cultural Studies |
| most promiscuous women in history: Hard to Get Leslie Bell, 2013-03-08 Hard to Get is a powerful and intimate examination of the sex and love lives of the most liberated women in history—twenty-something American women who have had more opportunities, more positive role models, and more information than any previous generation. Drawing from her years of experience as a researcher and a psychotherapist, Leslie C. Bell takes us directly into the lives of young women who struggle to negotiate the complexities of sexual desire and pleasure, and to make sense of their historically unique but contradictory constellation of opportunities and challenges. In candid interviews, Bell’s subjects reveal that, despite having more choices than ever, they face great uncertainty about desire, sexuality, and relationships. Ground-breaking and highly readable, Hard to Get offers fascinating insights into the many ways that sex, love, and satisfying relationships prove surprisingly elusive to these young women as they navigate the new emotional landscape of the 21st century. |
| most promiscuous women in history: A View from Above Wilt Chamberlain, 1992 Wilt Chamberlain--a man who was as uncompromising on the basketball court as he was in his life. Here, in his own words, are the outspoken opinions that made Wilt Chamberlain one of the most controversial sports icons in the world, such as his admission to bedding 20,000 women while supporting monogamy in marriage...why blacks dominate pro basketball...his initial doubts about Magic Johnson and how they were overcome...and why he made his #1 enemy on the court his #1 pick on his all-time all-star team. He was a legend in his own lifetime, a subject of controversy both on and off the court, and will go down in history as one of the greatest ever to play the game of basketball. This is his story. Book jacket. |
| most promiscuous women in history: The Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood, 2011-09-06 An instant classic and eerily prescient cultural phenomenon, from “the patron saint of feminist dystopian fiction” (New York Times). Now an award-winning Hulu series starring Elizabeth Moss. In this multi-award-winning, bestselling novel, Margaret Atwood has created a stunning Orwellian vision of the near future. This is the story of Offred, one of the unfortunate “Handmaids” under the new social order who have only one purpose: to breed. In Gilead, where women are prohibited from holding jobs, reading, and forming friendships, Offred’s persistent memories of life in the “time before” and her will to survive are acts of rebellion. Provocative, startling, prophetic, and with Margaret Atwood’s devastating irony, wit, and acute perceptive powers in full force, The Handmaid’s Tale is at once a mordant satire and a dire warning. |
| most promiscuous women in history: The Art of the Affair Catherine Lacey, 2017-01-03 A vibrantly illustrated chain of entanglements (romantic and otherwise) between some of our best-loved writers and artists of the twentieth century--fascinating, scandalous, and surprising. Poet Robert Lowell died of a heart attack, clutching a portrait of his lover, Caroline Blackwood, painted by her ex-husband, Lucian Freud. Lowell was on his way to see his own ex-wife, Elizabeth Hardwick, who was a longtime friend of Mary McCarthy. McCarthy left the father of her child to marry Edmund Wilson, who had encouraged her writing, and had also brought critical attention to the fiction of Anaïs Nin . . . whom he later bedded. And so it goes, the long chain of love, affections, and artistic influences among writers, musicians, and artists that weaves its way through the The Art of the Affair--from Frida Kahlo to Colette to Hemingway to Dali; from Coco Chanel to Stravinsky to Miles Davis to Orson Welles. Scrupulously researched but playfully prurient, cleverly designed and colorfully illustrated, it's the perfect gift for your literary lover--and the perfect read for any good-natured gossip-monger. |
| most promiscuous women in history: Flappers Judith Mackrell, 2013-05-23 For many young women, the 1920s felt like a promise of liberty. It was a period when they dared to shorten their skirts and shingle their hair, to smoke, drink, take drugs and to claim sexual freedoms. In an era of soaring stock markets, consumer expansion, urbanization and fast travel, women were reimagining both the small detail and the large ambitions of their lives. In Flappers, acclaimed biographer Judith Mackrell follows a group of six women - Diana Cooper, Nancy Cunard, Tallulah Bankhead, Zelda Fitzgerald, Josephine Baker and Tamara de Lempicka - who, between them, exemplified the range and daring of that generation's spirit. For them, the pursuit of experience was not just about dancing the Charleston and wearing fashionable clothes. They made themselves prominent among the artists, icons, and heroines of their age, pursuing experience in ways that their mothers could never have imagined, seeking to define what it was to be young and a woman in an age where the smashing of old certainties had thrown the world wide open. Talented, reckless and wilful, with personalities that transcended their class and background, they re-wrote their destinies in remarkable, entertaining and sometimes tragic ways. And between them they blazed the trail of the New Woman around the world. |
| most promiscuous women in history: Cheap Sex Mark Regnerus, 2017-08-02 Sex is cheap. Coupled sexual activity has become more widely available than ever. Cheap sex has been made possible by two technologies that have little to do with each other - the Pill and high-quality pornography - and its distribution made more efficient by a third technological innovation, online dating. Together, they drive down the cost of real sex, and in turn slow the development of love, make fidelity more challenging, sexual malleability more common, and have even taken a toll on men's marriageability. Cheap Sex takes readers on an extended tour inside the American mating market, and highlights key patterns that characterize young adults' experience today, including the timing of first sex in relationships, overlapping partners, frustrating returns on their relational investments, and a failure to link future goals like marriage with how they navigate their current relationships. Drawing upon several large nationally-representative surveys, in-person interviews with 100 men and women, and the assertions of scholars ranging from evolutionary psychologists to gender theorists, what emerges is a story about social change, technological breakthroughs, and unintended consequences. Men and women have not fundamentally changed, but their unions have. No longer playing a supporting role in relationships, sex has emerged as a central priority in relationship development and continuation. But unravel the layers, and it is obvious that the emergence of industrial sex is far more a reflection of men's interests than women's. |
| most promiscuous women in history: Naomi Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, 2024-03-16 A hilarious story of one man’s obsession and a brilliant reckoning of a nation’s cultural confusion—from a master Japanese novelist. When twenty-eight-year-old Joji first lays eyes upon the teenage waitress Naomi, he is instantly smitten by her exotic, almost Western appearance. Determined to transform her into the perfect wife and to whisk her away from the seamy underbelly of post-World War I Tokyo, Joji adopts and ultimately marries Naomi, paying for English and music lessons that promise to mold her into his ideal companion. But as she grows older, Joji discovers that Naomi is far from the naïve girl of his fantasies. And, in Tanizaki’s masterpiece of lurid obsession, passion quickly descends into comically helpless masochism. |
| most promiscuous women in history: Sexual Revolution in Early America Richard Godbeer, 2004-02-18 An Alternate Selection of the History Book Club In 1695, John Miller, a clergyman traveling through New York, found it appalling that so many couples lived together without ever being married and that no one viewed ante-nuptial fornication as anything scandalous or sinful. Charles Woodmason, an Anglican minister in South Carolina in 1766, described the region as a stage of debauchery in which polygamy was very common, concubinage general, and bastardy no disrepute. These depictions of colonial North America's sexual culture sharply contradict the stereotype of Puritanical abstinence that persists in the popular imagination. In Sexual Revolution in Early America, Richard Godbeer boldly overturns conventional wisdom about the sexual values and customs of colonial Americans. His eye-opening historical account spans two centuries and most of British North America, from New England to the Caribbean, exploring the social, political, and legal dynamics that shaped a diverse sexual culture. Drawing on exhaustive research into diaries, letters, and other private papers, as well as legal records and official documents, Godbeer's absorbing narrative uncovers a persistent struggle between the moral authorities and the widespread expression of popular customs and individual urges. Godbeer begins with a discussion of the complex attitude that the Puritans had toward sexuality. For example, although believing that sex could be morally corrupting, they also considered it to be such an essential element of a healthy marriage that they excommunicated those who denied conjugal fellowship to their spouses. He next examines the ways in which race and class affected the debate about sexual mores, from anxieties about Anglo-Indian sexual relations to the sense of sexual entitlement that planters held over their African slaves. He concludes by detailing the fundamental shift in sexual culture during the eighteenth century towards the acceptance of a more individualistic concept of sexual desire and fulfillment. Today's moral critics, in their attempts to convince Americans of the social and spiritual consequences of unregulated sexual behavior, often harken back to a more innocent age; as this groundbreaking work makes clear, America's sexual culture has always been rich, vibrant, and contentious. |
| most promiscuous women in history: The Boundaries of Eros Guido Ruggiero, 1989 Using the records of several Venetian courts that dealt with sex crimes, Ruggiero traces the evolution of both licit and illicit sexuality during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, providing insight into Venetian society and, ultimately, the Renaissance itself. |
| most promiscuous women in history: The Nature and Evolution of Female Sexuality Mary Jane Sherfey, 1973 |
| most promiscuous women in history: Sex in Middlesex Roger Thompson, 1986 |
| most promiscuous women in history: Too Many Women? Marcia Guttentag, Paul F. Secord, 1983-04 `The basic premise of this provocative book is a startling one - that sex ratios among people on the marriage market have profound consequences for a wide variety of attitudes, values, and behaviors, from sexual mores and behavior to shifts in economic power...the authors share with the reader a wealth of fascinating data and information...a book which is...fascinating, scholarly, provocative and exceedingly well-written.' -- Canadian Journal of Sociology, Vol 10 No 2 `Written by social scientists with training and considerable publication in social psychology, this book is a unique contribution to the literature on women, sex roles, and the history of relations between men and women. No similar book is available to |
| most promiscuous women in history: Victory Girls, Khaki-Wackies, and Patriotutes Marilyn E. Hegarty, 2010-04-05 While the de-sexualized Rosie was celebrated, women who used their sexuality - either intentionally or inadvertently - to serve their country encountered a contradictory morals campaign launched by government and social agencies, which shunned female sexuality while valorizing masculine sexuality. This double standard was accurately summed up by a government official who dubbed these women patriotutes: part patriot, part prostitute. |
| most promiscuous women in history: The Hidden Epidemic Institute of Medicine, Committee on Prevention and Control of Sexually Transmitted Diseases, 1997-03-28 The United States has the dubious distinction of leading the industrialized world in overall rates of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), with 12 million new cases annually. About 3 million teenagers contract an STD each year, and many will have long-term health problems as a result. Women and adolescents are particularly vulnerable to these diseases and their health consequences. In addition, STDs increase the risk of HIV transmission. The Hidden Epidemic examines the scope of sexually transmitted infections in the United States and provides a critical assessment of the nation's response to this public health crisis. The book identifies the components of an effective national STD prevention and control strategy and provides direction for an appropriate response to the epidemic. Recommendations for improving public awareness and education, reaching women and adolescents, integrating public health programs, training health care professionals, modifying messages from the mass media, and supporting future research are included. The book documents the epidemiological dimensions and the economic and social costs of STDs, describing them as a secret epidemic with tremendous consequences. The committee frankly discusses the confusing and often hypocritical nature of how Americans deal with issues regarding sexualityâ€the conflicting messages conveyed in the mass media, the reluctance to promote condom use, the controversy over sex education for teenagers, and the issue of personal blame. The Hidden Epidemic identifies key elements of effective, culturally appropriate programs to promote healthy behavior by adolescents and adults. It examines the problem of fragmentation in STD services and provides examples of communities that have formed partnerships between stakeholders to develop integrated approaches. The committee's recommendations provide a practical foundation on which to build an integrated national program to help young people and adults develop habits of healthy sexuality. The Hidden Epidemic was written for both health care professionals and people without a medical background and will be indispensable to anyone concerned about preventing and controlling STDs. |
| most promiscuous women in history: Aeneid Virgil, 2012-03-12 Monumental epic poem tells the heroic story of Aeneas, a Trojan who escaped the burning ruins of Troy to found Lavinium, the parent city of Rome, in the west. |
| most promiscuous women in history: The Pleasure Gap Katherine Rowland, 2020-02-04 American culture is more sexually liberal than ever. But compared to men, women's sexual pleasure has not grown: Up to 40 percent of American women experience the sexual malaise clinically known as low sexual desire. Between this low desire, muted pleasure, and experiencing sex in terms of labor rather than of lust, women by the millions are dissatisfied with their erotic lives. For too long, this deficit has been explained in terms of women's biology, stress, and age. In The Pleasure Gap, Katherine Rowland rejects the idea that women should settle for diminished pleasure; instead, she argues women should take inequality in the bedroom as seriously as we take it in the workplace and understand its causes and effects. Drawing on extensive research and interviews with more than one hundred women and dozens of sexual health professionals, Rowland shows that the pleasure gap is neither medical malady nor psychological condition but rather a result of our culture's troubled relationship with women's sexual expression. This provocative exploration of modern sexuality makes a case for closing the gap for good. |
| most promiscuous women in history: Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?: 50th anniversary edition Linda Nochlin, 2021-02-16 The fiftieth anniversary edition of the essay that is now recognized as the first major work of feminist art theory—published together with author Linda Nochlin’s reflections three decades later. Many scholars have called Linda Nochlin’s seminal essay on women artists the first real attempt at a feminist history of art. In her revolutionary essay, Nochlin refused to answer the question of why there had been no “great women artists” on its own corrupted terms, and instead, she dismantled the very concept of greatness, unraveling the basic assumptions that created the male-centric genius in art. With unparalleled insight and wit, Nochlin questioned the acceptance of a white male viewpoint in art history. And future freedom, as she saw it, requires women to leap into the unknown and risk demolishing the art world’s institutions in order to rebuild them anew. In this stand-alone anniversary edition, Nochlin’s essay is published alongside its reappraisal, “Thirty Years After.” Written in an era of thriving feminist theory, as well as queer theory, race, and postcolonial studies, “Thirty Years After” is a striking reflection on the emergence of a whole new canon. With reference to Joan Mitchell, Louise Bourgeois, Cindy Sherman, and many more, Nochlin diagnoses the state of women and art with unmatched precision and verve. “Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?” has become a slogan and rallying cry that resonates across culture and society. In the 2020s, Nochlin’s message could not be more urgent: as she put it in 2015, “There is still a long way to go.” |
| most promiscuous women in history: Loose Girl Kerry Cohen, 2008-06-03 This captivating and deeply emotional memoir pulls back the curtain on the complex relationship women have between their bodies, love, and the way the two work together. Kerry Cohen is eleven years old when she recognizes the power of her body in the leer of a grown man. Her parents are recently divorced and it doesn't take long before their lassitude and Kerry's desire to stand out—to be memorable in some way—combine to lead her down a path she knows she shouldn't take. Kerry wanted attention. She wanted love. But not really understanding what love was, not really knowing how to get it, she reached for sex instead. Loose Girl is Kerry Cohen's captivating memoir about her descent into promiscuity and how she gradually found her way toward real intimacy. The story of addiction—not just to sex, but to male attention—Loose Girl is also the story of a young girl who came to believe that boys and men could give her life meaning. It didn't matter who he was. It was their movement that mattered, their being together. And for a while, that was enough. From the early rush of exploration to the day she learned to quiet the desperation and allow herself to love and be loved, Kerry's story is never less than riveting. In rich and immediate detail, Loose Girl re-creates what it feels like to be in that desperate moment, when a girl tries to control a boy by handing over her body, when the touch of that boy seems to offer proof of something, but ultimately delivers little more than emptiness. Kerry Cohen's journey from that hopeless place to her current confident and fulfilled existence is a cautionary tale and a revelation for girls young and old. The unforgettable memoir of one young woman who desperately wanted to matter, Loose Girl will speak to countless others with its compassion, understanding, and love. |
| most promiscuous women in history: Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism Kristen R. Ghodsee, 2018-11-20 A spirited, deeply researched exploration of why capitalism is bad for women and how, when done right, socialism leads to economic independence, better labor conditions, better work-life balance and, yes, even better sex. In a witty, irreverent op-ed piece that went viral, Kristen Ghodsee argued that women had better sex under socialism. The response was tremendous — clearly she articulated something many women had sensed for years: the problem is with capitalism, not with us. Ghodsee, an acclaimed ethnographer and professor of Russian and East European Studies, spent years researching what happened to women in countries that transitioned from state socialism to capitalism. She argues here that unregulated capitalism disproportionately harms women, and that we should learn from the past. By rejecting the bad and salvaging the good, we can adapt some socialist ideas to the 21st century and improve our lives. She tackles all aspects of a woman's life - work, parenting, sex and relationships, citizenship, and leadership. In a chapter called Women: Like Men, But Cheaper, she talks about women in the workplace, discussing everything from the wage gap to harassment and discrimination. In What To Expect When You're Expecting Exploitation, she addresses motherhood and how having it all is impossible under capitalism. Women are standing up for themselves like never before, from the increase in the number of women running for office to the women's march to the long-overdue public outcry against sexual harassment. Interest in socialism is also on the rise -- whether it's the popularity of Bernie Sanders or the skyrocketing membership numbers of the Democratic Socialists of America. It's become increasingly clear to women that capitalism isn't working for us, and Ghodsee is the informed, lively guide who can show us the way forward. |
| most promiscuous women in history: Pious Peripheries Sonia Ahsan-Tirmizi, 2021-05-18 The Taliban made piety a business of the state, and thereby intervened in the daily lives and social interactions of Afghan women. Pious Peripheries examines women's resistance through groundbreaking fieldwork at a women's shelter in Kabul, home to runaway wives, daughters, mothers, and sisters of the Taliban. Whether running to seek marriage or divorce, enduring or escaping abuse, or even accused of singing sexually explicit songs in public, promiscuous women challenge the status quo—and once marked as promiscuous, women have few resources. This book provides a window into the everyday struggles of Afghan women as they develop new ways to challenge historical patriarchal practices. Sonia Ahsan-Tirmizi explores how women negotiate gendered power mechanisms, notably those of Islam and Pashtunwali. Sometimes defined as an honor code, Pashtunwali is a discursive and material practice that women embody through praying, fasting, oral and written poetry, and participation in rituals of hospitality and refuge. In taking ownership of Pashtunwali and Islamic knowledge, in both textual and oral forms, women create a new supportive community, finding friendship and solidarity in the margins of Afghan society. So doing, these women redefine the meanings of equality, honor, piety, and promiscuity in Afghanistan. |
| most promiscuous women in history: Negotiators of Change Nancy Shoemaker, 2012-11-12 Negotiators of Change covers the history of ten tribal groups including the Cherokee, Iroquois and Navajo -- as well as tribes with less known histories such as the Yakima, Ute, and Pima-Maricopa. The book contests the idea that European colonialization led to a loss of Native American women's power, and instead presents a more complex picture of the adaption to, and subversion of, the economic changes introduced by Europeans. The essays also discuss the changing meainings of motherhood, women's roles and differing gender ideologies within this context. |
| most promiscuous women in history: I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream Harlan Ellison, 2014-04-29 Seven stunning stories of speculative fiction by the author of A Boy and His Dog. In a post-apocalyptic world, four men and one woman are all that remain of the human race, brought to near extinction by an artificial intelligence. Programmed to wage war on behalf of its creators, the AI became self-aware and turned against humanity. The five survivors are prisoners, kept alive and subjected to brutal torture by the hateful and sadistic machine in an endless cycle of violence. This story and six more groundbreaking and inventive tales that probe the depths of mortal experience prove why Grand Master of Science Fiction Harlan Ellison has earned the many accolades to his credit and remains one of the most original voices in American literature. I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream also includes “Big Sam Was My Friend,” “Eyes of Dust,” “World of the Myth,” “Lonelyache,” Hugo Award finalist “Delusion for a Dragon Slayer,” and Hugo and Nebula Award finalist “Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes.” |
| most promiscuous women in history: German Women for Empire, 1884-1945 Lora Wildenthal, 2001-11-28 DIVAnalyses gender, sexuality, feminism, and class in the racial politics of formal German colonialism and postcolonial revanchism./div |
Most Promiscuous Women In History [PDF] - archive.ncarb.org
Times Book Review Nina McCall was one of many women unfairly imprisoned by the United States government throughout the twentieth century Tens probably hundreds of thousands of women and girls were locked up usually without due process simply because officials …
Puritanism and Promiscuity? - Princeton University
Five attitudinal questions from the 1981 and 1990 World Values Survey are examined: tolerance of 1) marital infidelity, 2) sex under the legal age of consent, 3) homosexuality, 4) prostitution, …
African Jezebel: Myth Formation and Stereotypes of Black Female ...
Jezebel is often associated with the stereotype of women’s promiscuity and sexual seduction. that represent valuable sources of historical background. Thus, to understand the historical context …
THE SEXUAL REVOLUTION OF THE “ROARING TWENTIES”: …
#History: A Journal of Student Research, Number 1 94 Sexual relationships outside of traditional marriage have been present throughout human history. They were usually regarded as …
The Colonial Roots of the Racial Fetishization of Black Women
reproduce by American society. Black women were sterilized in attempts to control their reproductive agency and regulate the black population. This practice was motivated by the …
Sexuality and Nazism: The Doubly Unspeakable? - JSTOR
In an early foray into women's history, Richard Evans observed that "the most popular, the most widely repeated and (probably) the most generally accepted" explanation for women's support …
DAMAGED DAUGHTERS: THE HISTORY OF GIRLS' SEXUALITY AND …
courts in these two states, that sexually promiscuous and prostituting girls were "wild" in their character and their casual sexual behaviors were part of a "high life," in which girls used sex …
DID 'RESPECTABLE' WOMEN ATTEND SYMPOSIA? - JSTOR
the participation of women in the history of Greek commensality does not depend solely on female presence at male-defined symposia. Just as men had a wide range
Native American Women: A Silent Presence in History
women recorded by Europeans are almost entirely based on surface-level glances, coming from places of deep misunderstanding. Europeans saw Indian women as promiscuous “drudges” …
Most Promiscuous Women In History (PDF) - dev.mabts
By drawing a historical picture of the articulation and rearticulation of this theme, Liu shows how changes in revolutionary discourse force unpredictable representations of gender rules and …
RAPE CULTURE & RAPE MYTH - SSCC
history • Gratuitous gendered violence in movies and television • Defining “manhood” as dominant and sexually aggressive • Defining “womanhood” as submissive and sexually passive • …
Women's sexual strategies: the hidden dimension of extra-pair …
Existing empirical evidence suggests that some women engage in short-term mating some of the time and probably have done so recurrently over human evolutionary history.
Chapter 2 Promiscuous or Proper? Nymphs as Female Role
young women preparing for their lives as wives and mothers? In this paper I am interested in examining the relationship between the mortal nymphs and their mythological counterparts …
Christian Knudsen contributed the essay, 'Promiscuous Monks and …
From the fabliaux and Chanson des Nonnes to the courtly elegance of Chaucer’s Madame Eglentyne, the ‘naughty nun’ and, to a lesser extent, the ‘promiscuous monk’ were popular …
‘Playing Hard to Get’: working‐class women, sexuality and ...
Recent studies by feminist historians have shown that the period between the two world wars witnessed changes and developments that were to have far-reaching implications for women's …
Using the personal to critique the popular: women’s memories of …
Popular memory depicts 1960s young adults as afluent, permissive, promiscuous, delinquent, sub- or counter-cultural rebels. But these stylised images do not reflect the lived experiences …
Perceptions of Sexual Refusals: Not so Black and White
31 Jan 2023 · “promiscuous” than White women (Ghavami & Peplau, 2013). Black women are often portrayed in stereotypes relating to generalized images of the Mammy, Sapphire, or the …
Passionlessness: An Interpretation of Victorian Sexual Ideology, …
New England colonists expected women's sexual appetites to be compa-rable with men's, if not greater.7 Calvinists assumed that men and women in their "fallen" state were equally …
Interpretations of Female Authority in Medieval Literature
Beginning with Romance of the Rose by Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun in 1269, Medieval authors give allegorical characteristics to women defining what a Medieval woman is, who she …
Intellectual Promiscuity: Cultural History in the Age of the Cinema ...
(1916), Hansen explores the film's unlimited appetite, its "eclecticism and pro- miscuity of sources."4 In one of six chapters that Babel and Babylon devotes to the film, Hansen …
Most Promiscuous Women In History [PDF] - archive.ncarb.org
Times Book Review Nina McCall was one of many women unfairly imprisoned by the United States government throughout the twentieth century Tens probably hundreds of thousands of women and girls were locked up usually without due process simply because officials suspected these women were prostitutes carrying STIs or just promiscuous This ...
Puritanism and Promiscuity? - Princeton University
Five attitudinal questions from the 1981 and 1990 World Values Survey are examined: tolerance of 1) marital infidelity, 2) sex under the legal age of consent, 3) homosexuality, 4) prostitution, and 5) “complete sexual freedom.”
African Jezebel: Myth Formation and Stereotypes of Black Female ...
Jezebel is often associated with the stereotype of women’s promiscuity and sexual seduction. that represent valuable sources of historical background. Thus, to understand the historical context of this stereotype better, one must present and analyze the impact of European preconception on the patterns of later African Jezebel mythology.
THE SEXUAL REVOLUTION OF THE “ROARING TWENTIES”: …
#History: A Journal of Student Research, Number 1 94 Sexual relationships outside of traditional marriage have been present throughout human history. They were usually regarded as immoral and unspeakable, and society generally faulted the woman involved, as she was considered the guardian of morality. The young women of the 1920’s,
The Colonial Roots of the Racial Fetishization of Black Women
reproduce by American society. Black women were sterilized in attempts to control their reproductive agency and regulate the black population. This practice was motivated by the colonial rooted beliefs that suggested black women were undiscriminating of sexual partners and …
Sexuality and Nazism: The Doubly Unspeakable? - JSTOR
In an early foray into women's history, Richard Evans observed that "the most popular, the most widely repeated and (probably) the most generally accepted" explanation for women's support of Hitler was their "suppos-
DAMAGED DAUGHTERS: THE HISTORY OF GIRLS' SEXUALITY …
courts in these two states, that sexually promiscuous and prostituting girls were "wild" in their character and their casual sexual behaviors were part of a "high life," in which girls used sex for access to restaurants, shelter, moving pictures, and clothes.13 Asserting that …
DID 'RESPECTABLE' WOMEN ATTEND SYMPOSIA? - JSTOR
the participation of women in the history of Greek commensality does not depend solely on female presence at male-defined symposia. Just as men had a wide range
Native American Women: A Silent Presence in History
women recorded by Europeans are almost entirely based on surface-level glances, coming from places of deep misunderstanding. Europeans saw Indian women as promiscuous “drudges” who labored tirelessly to please their idle men. 10. Amerigo Vespucci, an Italian explorer for whom the
Most Promiscuous Women In History (PDF) - dev.mabts
By drawing a historical picture of the articulation and rearticulation of this theme, Liu shows how changes in revolutionary discourse force unpredictable representations of gender rules and power relations, and how women's bodies reveal the complex interactions between political representation and gender roles.
RAPE CULTURE & RAPE MYTH - SSCC
history • Gratuitous gendered violence in movies and television • Defining “manhood” as dominant and sexually aggressive • Defining “womanhood” as submissive and sexually passive • Pressure on men to “score” • Pressure on women to not appear “cold” • …
Women's sexual strategies: the hidden dimension of extra-pair …
Existing empirical evidence suggests that some women engage in short-term mating some of the time and probably have done so recurrently over human evolutionary history.
Chapter 2 Promiscuous or Proper? Nymphs as Female Role
young women preparing for their lives as wives and mothers? In this paper I am interested in examining the relationship between the mortal nymphs and their mythological counterparts and role models, partic-ularly in terms of the ways in which each group approaches its sexuality. Why (and how) did mythological nymphs maintain a prominent ...
Christian Knudsen contributed the essay, 'Promiscuous Monks …
From the fabliaux and Chanson des Nonnes to the courtly elegance of Chaucer’s Madame Eglentyne, the ‘naughty nun’ and, to a lesser extent, the ‘promiscuous monk’ were popular medieval stereotypes.
‘Playing Hard to Get’: working‐class women, sexuality and ...
Recent studies by feminist historians have shown that the period between the two world wars witnessed changes and developments that were to have far-reaching implications for women's lives. Sheila Jeffreys, for example, has persuasively demonstrated how married heterosexuality.
Using the personal to critique the popular: women’s memories of …
Popular memory depicts 1960s young adults as afluent, permissive, promiscuous, delinquent, sub- or counter-cultural rebels. But these stylised images do not reflect the lived experiences of ordinary young adults, particularly young women, in the 1960s.
Perceptions of Sexual Refusals: Not so Black and White
31 Jan 2023 · “promiscuous” than White women (Ghavami & Peplau, 2013). Black women are often portrayed in stereotypes relating to generalized images of the Mammy, Sapphire, or the Jezebel (West, 1995).
Passionlessness: An Interpretation of Victorian Sexual Ideology…
New England colonists expected women's sexual appetites to be compa-rable with men's, if not greater.7 Calvinists assumed that men and women in their "fallen" state were equally licentious, that sexual drives were natural and God-given in both sexes, and had their proper outlet in marriage. If anything, the daughters of Eve were considered more
Interpretations of Female Authority in Medieval Literature
Beginning with Romance of the Rose by Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun in 1269, Medieval authors give allegorical characteristics to women defining what a Medieval woman is, who she should be, and how she should behave.
Intellectual Promiscuity: Cultural History in the Age of the …
(1916), Hansen explores the film's unlimited appetite, its "eclecticism and pro- miscuity of sources."4 In one of six chapters that Babel and Babylon devotes to the film, Hansen examines how it appropriates various film styles, historical details, and references to diverse cultural traditions.
