Sexuality across the Life Course

Alice S. Rossi, editor of the volume and author of six of the thirteen chapters, is the Harriet Martineau Professor Emerita of Sociology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is a past president of the American Sociological Association and the author of many books, including Sexuality across the Life Course, also published by the University of Chicago Press. Both she and the contributing authors were members or associates of the Research Network on Successful Midlife Development, a network supported by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

I The Biopsychosocial Perspective1 Eros and Caritas: A Biopsychosocial Approach to Human Sexuality and Reproduction, Alice S. Rossi II Sexual Diversity: History, Culture, and Lifestyle 2 Human Sexuality, Life Histories, and Evolutionary Biology, Jane B. Lancaster 3 Attitudes toward Sexual Permissiveness: Trends, Correlates, and Behavioral Connections, Tom W. Smith 4 Sexuality among African-American Women, Claire Sterk-Elifson 5 African-American Male Sexuality through the Early Life Course, Benjamin P. Bowser 6 Single Worlds and Homosexual Lifestyles: Patterns of Sexuality and Intimacy, Martha R. Fowlkes III Sexuality at Selected Phases of the Life Course 7 Getting Started on Sexual Behavior, J. Richard Udry and Benjamin C. Campbell 8 Changing Lives, Changing Genres: Teenage Girls' Narratives about Sex and Romance, Sharon Thompson 9 Sexuality, Marriage, and Well-Being: The Middle Years, John N. Edwards and Alan Booth 10 Age-Related Variation in Sexual Activity and Interest in Normal Men: Results from the Massachusetts Male Aging Study, John B. McKinlay and Henry A. Feldman 11 Sex and Sexuality in Later Life Stages, Judith A. Levy IV Selected Health Issues 12 Impact of Chronic Disease and Medication on Sexual Functioning, Raul C. Schiavi 13 Sexual Problems and Therapies: A Quarter Century of Developments and Changes, Richard Green 14 Sexual Offending and Victimization: A Life Course Perspective, Richard J. Gelles and Glenn Wolfner