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The International Encyclopedia of Human Sexuality is a comprehensive A-Z reference with over 500 entries that define sexuality from a broad biocultural perspective and show the diversity of human sexual behavior and belief systems. The first encyclopedia to focus on cultural diversity as a specific theme, it contains entries ranging from short definitions of scientific, clinical, cultural, and colloquial terms to extended explorations of major concepts. The Encyclopedia places topics within their socio-cultural and cross-cultural contexts while also exploring evolutionary and primatological concerns.
The content covers 13 key areas of human sexuality, including clinical medicine, body modification, the language of sexuality, the history of sexology, gender, and globalization and sexuality. Under the editorship of two esteemed anthropologists, the entries have been written and reviewed by an international team of top scholars and practitioners. The Encyclopedia is available as an online platform with interactive cross-referencing links and powerful searching and browsing capabilities within the work and across Wiley's comprehensive online reference collection or as a three-volume print set. With essential information for students, scholars, and researchers in a range of disciplines across the social sciences, medicine, and science, this is a landmark resource for a complex and dynamic field of study.
Patricia Whelehan is Professor Emerita of Anthropology at SUNY-Potsdam, USA, and serves as the campus' AIDS Education Coordinator. A certified sex therapist, mentor, diplomate, and clinical supervisor with the American Board of Sexology and a certified HIV test counselor in both California and New York, she is the author of The Anthropology of AIDS: A Global Perspective (2009) and the editor of The World's Oldest Profession: An Anthropological Perspective. Sex Workers as Real People (2001) and Women and Health: Cross-Cultural Perspectives (1988). With Anne Bolin, she is co-author of Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Human Sexuality: Biological, Psychological and Cultural Perspectives (2009) and Perspectives on Human Sexuality (2nd edition, 2003) as well as Human Sexuality: An Anthropological Perspective (1999). She is the recipient of the President's Award for Excellence in Service, the Phi Eta Sigma award for Outstanding Teacher of the Year, and was inducted into Phi Kappa Phi in 2008.
Anne Bolin is Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Elon University, USA, and is the recipient of the Elon University Distinguished Scholar Award and the Senior Faculty Research Fellowship Award (2009-2011). She has presented and published extensively in the areas of women and gender, human sexuality, the body, sporting bodies, gender identity, and gender variance. With Patricia Whelehan, she is co-author of Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Human Sexuality: Biological, Psychological and Cultural Perspectives (2009) and Perspectives on Human Sexuality (2nd edition, 2003). She is also co-author of Athletic Intruders: Women, Culture and Exercise (2003) and author of In Search of Eve: Transsexual Rites of Passage (1988). She is a Diplomat with the American Board of Sexology, a certified sex researcher, and a Fellow of the Society for Applied Anthropology.
