Gender, Sex and Status : Turmoil in America.

Intro -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Women's Occupations and Income in the Professions -- Industrial and Business Executives -- Physicians -- Work Experiences of Women in the Professions -- Pharmacists -- Lawyers -- Politicians -- The Income of American Women -- Predominantly Female Occupations -- Librarians -- Dental Assistants -- Pre-school and Kindergarten Teachers -- Medical Assistants -- The Gender Pay Gap -- Chapter 2. Women and Men: Status and Role Confusion -- Motor Vehicle Accidents -- Suicide -- Murder -- Men at Work -- Wage Slaves -- A Nation of Employees -- Protect and Defend -- Some Case Histories -- The American Military -- Retirement -- Chapter 3. Marriage -- Status and Role: Some Statistics -- The Traditional Marriage -- Marriage Fraud -- The "New" Marriage -- Interfaith marriage -- Age and Marriage -- Economics of Marriage -- Some Recent Developments -- A Brief History of Marriage -- The Pill -- Chapter 4. Puritan Sex and the Western Tradition -- The New Puritans -- An Unholy Alliance -- Pornography in the American Context -- The Consequences of Pornography -- Pornography and crime and financial negative consequences -- Pornography on the Internet -- The Performers -- The Puritan Catholic Church -- The Western Tradition -- Lesbians -- Homosexuals or "Gays" -- Same Sex Marriage -- The Children of Same-Sex Marriages -- Transgender Men/Women -- Bisexuals -- Compulsive Sexual Behavior -- Chapter 5. The Assault on American Marriage. -- Co-Habitation -- Divorce -- Parental Divorce and Childhood -- Abandonment -- Annulment -- Incest -- Fraud -- Under-Age Marriages -- Statistics concerning Child Marriages. -- Forced Marriages -- Chapter 6. Abortion -- Some Abortion Statistics -- A Brief History of Abortion -- Anti-abortion violence -- Religion and Abortion -- Judaism -- The Catholic View of Abortion.

The American Protestant Opinion Concerning Abortion -- The Casey decision and the decline of abortion in the United States -- RU 486 -- Chapter 7. Prostitution: Stigma, Degradation, and Humiliation -- Social Stratification In The "Oldest Profession" -- Male Prostitutes And Johns -- "Sex Work": Organized Prostitution -- Chapter 8. Role Models, and Culture Heroes -- Politicians -- Sports "Heroes" -- The Entertainment Industry -- The Drug Epidemic -- The Entertainment Industry and the "Me Too" movement -- Chapter 9. Adolescent Sex -- Some Relevant Facts -- Sex in High School -- Sexual Activity -- Teen Pregnancy Affects Graduation Rates -- Sex and Higher Education -- Alcohol and Sex -- The Party School -- Fraternities and Sororities -- "Man Against Himself:" Alcohol, Sex, and Drugs -- Some Case Histories -- Alcohol and Drug Use in American Culture -- Chapter 10. Sex Education -- Sex Education in Public Schools. -- Reasons for Teaching Sex Education -- Transmission of Sexually Acquired Diseases -- Sex Education in the States -- Opposing Public School Sex Education -- The Abstinence Only Controversy -- Does Sex Education Affect Adolescent Sexual Behavior? -- Chapter 11. Old Age - Status and Role -- Endnotes -- x -- chapters_index_1_down -- _GoBack.

By attaining more and more education, and thus gaining entry to a wider variety of jobs and more economic independence, American women have proved that the centuries-old subjection of women to men was never rooted in biological differences. Prof. Falk, a senior academic, discusses the evolution in American society, providing hard data more than essayistic assertions. He also considers where we have made progress and where there is still room to improve, then examines how young people are being led astray by today's liberal attitudes toward sex, the promotion of rampant alcohol and drug use, and a focus on rights and privileges while we fail to pass on any sense of responsibility, duty, or obligations.

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