...This chapter explores how women who become single in midlife approach dating risks and sexual health. Anxiety about finding someone, uncertainty about how to date, and risky behavior are common themes among midlife women after relationship dissolution. Income levels, parental status, and partner...

...This chapter describes how sexual health has become a touchstone in discussions about political belonging in the United States. By linking the management of the individual body to the governance of the social body, proponents of sexual health projects define healthy societies, responsible conduct...

... about sex and intimacy? This chapter explores all of these questions. My research suggests a mismatch with mothers’ perceptions of easy and open communication about sexual health and sexuality with their daughters and what daughters express. Although many mothers saw themselves as more open...

... of the United States (SIECUS), as well as of Planned Parenthood, medical schools, public schools, and the liberal churches, in transforming attitudes to sexual health and sex education. It also analyzes the opposition to these efforts by right-wing politicians and conservative religious groups promoting...

...This chapter addresses children's rights to sexual information, including affirmative sexual education in schools, sexual health services, and contraception. Over the last several decades, the federal government and conservative religious organizations have joined together to develop and implement...