Women, Body, Sexuality, History 

Perennial library 

Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I. How does a girl know she's a girl? Introduction -- The denial of the vagina / Karen Horney -- Early childhood experiences and women's achievement / Lois Wladis Hoffman -- Feminism and psychotherapy / Betty J. Kronsky -- Homosexuality in women / Joyce McDougall -- Fathers, mothers, and sex typing / Evelyn Goodenough Pitcher -- Psychosexual differentiation / Jobn Money -- II: Masturbation, sexual intercourse, and orgasm. Introduction -- Authority and masturbation / René A. Sptiz -- Masturbation / Alfred C. Kinsey [and others] -- Clitorial erotism and the sexual response cycle in human females / Mary Jane Sherfey -- Trebly sensuous women / Niles Newton -- Psychologic and sociologic factors of orgasm / William H. Masters and Virginia E. Johnson -- Multiple factors in frigidity / Ruth Moulton -- III. The menstrual cylce : menstruation and menopause. Introduction -- Feminine fertility cycles / Clellan S. Ford and Frank A. Beach -- Effects of oral contraceptives on affective fluctuations associated with the menstrual cycle / Karen E. Paige -- A re-evaluation of some aspects of femininity through a study of menstruation: a preliminary report / Natalie Shainess -- Sex after forty -- And after Seventy, / Isadore Rubin -- Middle age / Clara Thompson -- IV: Pregnancy, birth and child care. Introduction -- Pregnancy and abortion: implications for career development of professional women / Malkah T. Notman -- Some specific psychological tasks in pregnancy and motherhood / Grete L. Bibring -- Delivery / Helene Deutsch -- Childbirth in America / Andrea Ostrum -- The acceptance of the concept of the maternal role by behavioral scientists: its effects on women / Rochelle Paul Wortis -- A cultural anthropologist's approach to maternal deprivation / Margaret Mead -- Contributors -- Additional reading.