Pepper Schwartz
Biographic Data
| ID | 3633263 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pepper Schwartz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pepper |
| FAMILY NAME | Schwartz |
| SIGNATURE | SCHWARTZ P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Washington |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 326 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Authors of Their Own Lives
Developing an Integrative Approach to Female Sexual Desire
Gender of Sexuality
The Gender of Sexuality serves as a fun and informative guide on how to approach the topics of gender and sexuality—two areas fraught with stereotypes and misinformation. The second edition of this book features significant new material on the changing status of gender, same sex marriage, and transgender. After introducing key concepts in gender and sexuality, the authors explore topics such as sexual desire, the role of biology, sexual behavior,…
Sexual satisfaction in committed relationships
The Contested Territory of Public Sociology
Inside the American Couple
Sociology as Public Practice
This article examines the role of sociologists as public intellectuals. The author discusses the role of the media in disseminating sociological knowledge and the impediments to using it for serious sociological commentary. There are many persuasive reasons why sociology and sociologists should use the language and the medium of the average person and engage in framing the controversies and issues of our time
Creating Sexual Pleasure and Sexual Justice in the Twenty-First Century
Pepper Schwartz, Creating Sexual Pleasure and Sexual Justice in the Twenty-First Century, Contemporary Sociology, Vol. 29, No. 1, Utopian Visions: Engaged Sociologies for the 21st Century (Jan., 2000), pp. 213-219
The Gender of Sexuality
Quality of life in the coming decades
The Gender of Sexuality
The Gender of Sexuality
Stage Fright or Death Wish
Let me start from where we are at this point: Almost all of America and a good part of world are discussing sexual politics, peccadilloes, and privileges of president of United States. Stranger than fiction, of course. If I had written a novel that included a nation having a dialogue about whether oral was sex and whether it constituted adultery, it would have l een considered outrageous impertinence and fantasy although perhaps, properly timed, …
Going All the Way
Was it good for you, too?”
First sexual intercourse is considered to be a major life transition, but it is not always a pleasurable experience, especially for females. The major purposes of this research were to examine gender differences in emotional reactions (pleasure, anxiety, and guilt) to first intercourse and to test possible explanations for these gender differences. Based on data collected from 1,659 college students who had had sexual intercourse, we found that m…
The Incidence and Frequency of Marital Sex in a National Sample
Although marriage is the only context for intercourse that is universally approved, behaviors and attitudes are more likely to be studied outside than inside the marital context. Over 10 years ago, Greenblat (1983) commented that marital sex remains more the topic of jokes than of serious social scientific investigation (p. 289). Several recent books based on the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) sex study overviewed sexuality in America an…
Peer marriage
The Judgment of Equity in Intimate Relationships
This paper examines how individuals in intimate relationships come to decide whether their relationship is equitable. We study two types of intimate relationships-married couples and heterosexual cohabiting couples-using questionnaire data to analyse how a variety of factors affect the judgment of equity. We examine characteristics concerned with traditional role differentiation, the functioning of the couple as a small group, and status-conferri…
Money and Ideology
Money and Marriage.Jan Pahl
Sociological Research on Male and Female Homosexuality
We review four topics which have dominated the research on homosexuality in the last decade. First, we address the question of etiology which is now best described as the essentialist/constructionist debate. Second, we review the research on the relationship between sexuality and gender role nonconformity. Third, we critique the studies of intimate relationships. Finally, we present a summary of the research on the gay community, including the im…
Social or evolutionary theories? Some observations on preferences in human mate selection
The Family as a Changed Institution
Sex, power, and influence tactics in intimate relationships
Sex and Power in Interaction
This paper examines conversational behavior which previous research suggests is differentiated on the basis of sex. Interaction is conceptualized in terms of a sexual division of labor wherein men dominate conversation and women behave in a supportive manner. The literature raises the question of whether these differences in conversational patterns are tied to power as well as sex. A study was designed to determine which of a set of variables ref…
Sex and Power in Interaction
This paper examines conversational behavior which previous research suggests is differentiated on the basis of sex. Interaction is conceptualized in terms of a sexual division of labor wherein men dominate conversation and women behave in a supportive manner. The literature raises the question of whether these differences in conversational patterns are tied to power as well as sex. A study was designed to determine which of a set of variables ref…
The Incidence and Frequency of Marital Sex in a National Sample
Although marriage is the only context for intercourse that is universally approved, behaviors and attitudes are more likely to be studied outside than inside the marital context. Over 10 years ago, Greenblat (1983) commented that marital sex remains more the topic of jokes than of serious social scientific investigation (p. 289). Several recent books based on the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) sex study overviewed sexuality in America an…
Was it good for you, too?”
First sexual intercourse is considered to be a major life transition, but it is not always a pleasurable experience, especially for females. The major purposes of this research were to examine gender differences in emotional reactions (pleasure, anxiety, and guilt) to first intercourse and to test possible explanations for these gender differences. Based on data collected from 1,659 college students who had had sexual intercourse, we found that m…
Social or evolutionary theories? Some observations on preferences in human mate selection
Sex, power, and influence tactics in intimate relationships
Bisexuality
This paper presents an overview of our interview study with 156 men and women having a history of more than incidental sexual experience with both men and women. Data from other studies that point to the existence of bisexuality are reviewed and suggestions are made about why bisexuality has not been incorporated into scientific thinking about sexuality. Our study is described and some of the findings are presented to address the following questi…
Sexual satisfaction in committed relationships
Bisexuality in women
Bisexuality in Men
The Judgment of Equity in Intimate Relationships
This paper examines how individuals in intimate relationships come to decide whether their relationship is equitable. We study two types of intimate relationships-married couples and heterosexual cohabiting couples-using questionnaire data to analyse how a variety of factors affect the judgment of equity. We examine characteristics concerned with traditional role differentiation, the functioning of the couple as a small group, and status-conferri…
Developing an Integrative Approach to Female Sexual Desire
Sociology as Public Practice
This article examines the role of sociologists as public intellectuals. The author discusses the role of the media in disseminating sociological knowledge and the impediments to using it for serious sociological commentary. There are many persuasive reasons why sociology and sociologists should use the language and the medium of the average person and engage in framing the controversies and issues of our time
Creating Sexual Pleasure and Sexual Justice in the Twenty-First Century
Pepper Schwartz, Creating Sexual Pleasure and Sexual Justice in the Twenty-First Century, Contemporary Sociology, Vol. 29, No. 1, Utopian Visions: Engaged Sociologies for the 21st Century (Jan., 2000), pp. 213-219
The Family as a Changed Institution
Fear and Loathing At a College Mixer
Stage Fright or Death Wish
Let me start from where we are at this point: Almost all of America and a good part of world are discussing sexual politics, peccadilloes, and privileges of president of United States. Stranger than fiction, of course. If I had written a novel that included a nation having a dialogue about whether oral was sex and whether it constituted adultery, it would have l een considered outrageous impertinence and fantasy although perhaps, properly timed, …
Female and Male
Bisexuality in women
Bisexuality in Men
Fear and Loathing At a College Mixer
Bisexuality
This paper presents an overview of our interview study with 156 men and women having a history of more than incidental sexual experience with both men and women. Data from other studies that point to the existence of bisexuality are reviewed and suggestions are made about why bisexuality has not been incorporated into scientific thinking about sexuality. Our study is described and some of the findings are presented to address the following questi…
Face to Face to Face
American couples
An authoritative study of contemporary American couples--married, living together, and homosexual--addresses diverse issues involved in their work, money, and sexual and emotional relationships.
A Need for Integration and Explanation
Sex and Power in Interaction
This paper examines conversational behavior which previous research suggests is differentiated on the basis of sex. Interaction is conceptualized in terms of a sexual division of labor wherein men dominate conversation and women behave in a supportive manner. The literature raises the question of whether these differences in conversational patterns are tied to power as well as sex. A study was designed to determine which of a set of variables ref…
Sex, power, and influence tactics in intimate relationships
Social or evolutionary theories? Some observations on preferences in human mate selection
The Family as a Changed Institution
Sociological Research on Male and Female Homosexuality
We review four topics which have dominated the research on homosexuality in the last decade. First, we address the question of etiology which is now best described as the essentialist/constructionist debate. Second, we review the research on the relationship between sexuality and gender role nonconformity. Third, we critique the studies of intimate relationships. Finally, we present a summary of the research on the gay community, including the im…
Money and Marriage.Jan Pahl
Money and Ideology
Peer marriage
The Judgment of Equity in Intimate Relationships
This paper examines how individuals in intimate relationships come to decide whether their relationship is equitable. We study two types of intimate relationships-married couples and heterosexual cohabiting couples-using questionnaire data to analyse how a variety of factors affect the judgment of equity. We examine characteristics concerned with traditional role differentiation, the functioning of the couple as a small group, and status-conferri…
Was it good for you, too?”
First sexual intercourse is considered to be a major life transition, but it is not always a pleasurable experience, especially for females. The major purposes of this research were to examine gender differences in emotional reactions (pleasure, anxiety, and guilt) to first intercourse and to test possible explanations for these gender differences. Based on data collected from 1,659 college students who had had sexual intercourse, we found that m…
The Incidence and Frequency of Marital Sex in a National Sample
Although marriage is the only context for intercourse that is universally approved, behaviors and attitudes are more likely to be studied outside than inside the marital context. Over 10 years ago, Greenblat (1983) commented that marital sex remains more the topic of jokes than of serious social scientific investigation (p. 289). Several recent books based on the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) sex study overviewed sexuality in America an…
Going All the Way
The Gender of Sexuality
Stage Fright or Death Wish
Let me start from where we are at this point: Almost all of America and a good part of world are discussing sexual politics, peccadilloes, and privileges of president of United States. Stranger than fiction, of course. If I had written a novel that included a nation having a dialogue about whether oral was sex and whether it constituted adultery, it would have l een considered outrageous impertinence and fantasy although perhaps, properly timed, …
The Gender of Sexuality
Quality of life in the coming decades
The Gender of Sexuality
Psychology (22 works) · Sociology (21 works) · Gender Studies (10 works) · Social Psychology (10 works) · Developmental psychology (9 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Human sexuality (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology (5 works)