Citation

Ehrenberg M. Arch. Sex. Behav. 2010; 39(6): 1471-1472.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2010, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1007/s10508-010-9685-1

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Abstract

This collection of articles is intended, according to the editors, to be an "ideal human sexualities text" for sociology and women's studies courses. As such, it needs to be evaluated in terms of its academic rigor and suitability for college students. Unfortunately, the book is somewhat remiss in its attention to important details and thus does not set a standard for students. Partly this seems to be a problem in copy editing. The table of contents, for instance, lists Part One and Part Four but omits Parts Two and Three, and the reader obtains a notion of the book's organizing themes only by turning the pages and finding Parts Two and Three and their titles.Editor's note: On the Oxford University Press website advertising the book, the complete table of contents is shown. A more serious problem is the lack of a bibliography. The publication sources of the articles included (47 in all, 45 of which were previously published and two that were written for the present collection) are refe...

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