{"product_id":"177-lovers-and-counting-my-life-as-a-sex-researcher-9781538174678","title":"177 Lovers and Counting: My Life as a Sex","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e177 Lovers and Still Counting: My Life as a Sex Researcher offers a transcultural perspective on gender and sexuality through engaging personal accounts of the author’s participant-observer research in multiple countries and cultures across the globe. Dr. Leanna Wolfe draws from anthropology, sexology, evolutionary psychology, and sociology, effortlessly weaving together personal stories along with qualititiave and quantitiave cross-cultural studies to shed light on relationships, genders, and sexualities. As an autoethnography that is both personal and clinical, Wolfe describes and analyzes personal experiences conduction participant-observer research in order to understand sex, gender, and relationships situated in the social context. She provides insight through personal, intimate storytelling, revealing the many varieties of love, sex, and relationships across cultures and subcultures, and how these insights might impact her readers’ lives, just as it has impacted the author’s life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eComing Out\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Tale of Two Viruses\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat is an Auto-Ethnography?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEthical Concerns\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMy Life as an Engaged Anthropologist\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e177 Lovers—What’s in a Number?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart I – Beginnings\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1: Erotic Stirrings\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 2: My Parents’ World\/My World\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 3: Saving It\/Losing It\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 4: Orgasm Me-Search\/Research\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 5: Am I Gay?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart II - Stepping Out Into the World as a Young Woman\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 6: The Gringa Studies Machismo\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 7: Discoveries and Dalliances in Late 1970s New York City\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart III – Adult Sex Education\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 8: Learning About Sex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 9: Forays into Alternative Lifestyles\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTracking BDSM\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Swing Scene\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart IV – Rethinking Marriage\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 10: Researching Singles Culture in Los Angeles\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart V – Engaging Polygamy and Polyamory\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 11: Researching Polygamy in East Africa and Papua New Guinea\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBriefly a Polyamorous Triad\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePolygyny Field Research in Africa\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePapua New Guinea Beckons!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 12: Researching Sex, Drugs and Polyamory at Burning Man \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart VI – Making it Professional\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 13: Becoming a Sexology Professional\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 14: Learning by Teaching: Insights into Ethnic Generation Gaps \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart VII – Exploring Worlds of the USA\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 15: Studying Cheating from a Multitude of Perspectives\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 16: In Search of Baby Batter\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart VIII – Engaging the Cybersex World\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 17: The Viral Nipple\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 18: The Petrified Sex Goddess\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 19: Working as a Cyber Sexpert \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart IX – The Marriage Question Continues\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 20: Engaging India’s Courtship with Love Marriage\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 21: Deconstructing Niger’s Marriage Market\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart X – Exploring Other Worlds\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 22: Scoping Out Sexual Tourism in Thailand, Jamaica and Peru\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThailand\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJamaica\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePeru\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 23: Engaging Morocco’s Gender Divide\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 24: Sorting Out Sex, Culture and Business in China and Cuba \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart XI – Three Full Circle Stories\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 25: Reckoning with #MeToo \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 26: Full Circle Love \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 27: Return to Mexico\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart XII – Conclusion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 28: Conclusion: Healing Through Culture, History and Context\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReferences\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDr. Leanna Wolfe’s Research\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSources Cited\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rowman \u0026 Littlefield","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041245430103,"sku":"9781538174678","price":23.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/177-lovers-and-counting-my-life-as-a-sex-researcher-9781538174678","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}