Sexually Agressive Women

Peter B. Anderson, PhD, is an associate professor of health and human sexuality education in the Department of Human Performance and Health Promotion at the University of New Orleans. Dr. Anderson received his doctorate from the human sexuality program of the Department of Health Education at New York University. He and Deborah Richie, MA (health educator at the McKinley Health Center, University of Illinois at Champaign/Urbana), are the only alumni of the program who later became leaders of the international study portion of NYU's program in human sexuality. In the summers of 1992 and 1994, Dr. Anderson and Ms. Richie (with Dr. Robert Francoeur in 1992) took students from NYU to Copenhagen, Denmark, to study cross-cultural issues in human sexuality. This is Dr. Anderson's second edited volume. Dr. Anderson has worked, published, and studied in the area of human sexuality for the past 25 years. Cindy Struckman-Johnson, PhD, received her doctorate in social psychology from the University of Kentucky at Lexington. She is presently a professor of psychology at the University of South Dakota, where she teaches courses in social psychology, sex roles, and sexuality. Dr. Struckman-Johnson is the recipient of numerous teaching awards and has gained special recognition for her course, ""Understanding the Sexes."" In collaboration with David Struckman-Johnson, she presently conducts research on sexual coercion of men in campus and prison settings, persuasive appeals for condom use, and seat-belt safety. Dr. Struckman-Johnson has served as a consulting editor for the Journal of Sex Research. In 1997, the Society for the Scientific Study of Sex awarded Cindy and David Struckman-Johnson the Beigel Award for research excellence for their work on sexual coercion of men and women in prison.

Introduction, Peter B. Anderson and Cindy Struckman-Johnson
I. Research and Conceptual Issues in Studying Sexually Aggressive Women
1. ""Men Do and Women Don't"": Difficulties in Researching Sexually Aggressive Women, Cindy Struckman-Johnson and Peter B. Anderson
2. The Importance and Danger of Studying Sexually Aggressive Women, Charlene L. Muehlenhard
3. Theories, Politics, and Sexual Coercion, Elizabeth Rice Allgeier and Jennifer Lamping
II. Traits and Motives of Sexually Aggressive Women
4. Women's Motives for Sexual Initiation and Aggression, Peter B. Anderson
5. When the Tables Are Turned: Verbal Sexual Coercion among College Women, Mary E. Craig Shea
6. Why Some Sexual Assaults Are Not Committed by Men: A Biosocial Analysis, Lee Ellis
III. Comparisons of Male and Female Experiences of Sexual Coercion
7. The Dynamics and Impact of Sexual Coercion of Men by Women, Cindy Struckman-Johnson and David Struckman-Johnson
8. Similar But Different: Men's and Women's Experiences of Sexual Coercion, E. Sandra Byers and Lucia F. O'Sullivan
9. Female Sexual Coercion of Males: A Feminist Analysis, Wendy Stock
IV. Treatment and Prevention of Female Sexual Aggression
10. Treatment Issues of Adult Male Victims of Female Sexual Aggression, John G. Macchietto
11. Meaningful Sexual Assault Prevention Programs for Men, Andrea Parrot
Postscript: Where Do We Go from Here?, Peter B. Anderson and Cindy Struckman-Johnson