177 Lovers and Still Counting: My Life as a Sex Researcher offers a transcultural perspective on gender and sexuality through engaging personal accounts of the author's participant-observer research in multiple countries and cultures across the globe. Dr. Leanna Wolfe draws from anthropology, sexology, evolutionary psychology, and sociology, effortlessly weaving together personal stories along with qualititiave and quantitiave cross-cultural studies to shed light on relationships, genders, and sexualities. As an autoethnography that is both personal and clinical, Wolfe describes and analyzes personal experiences conduction participant-observer research in order to understand sex, gender, and relationships situated in the social context. She provides insight through personal, intimate storytelling, revealing the many varieties of love, sex, and relationships across cultures and subcultures, and how these insights might impact her readers' lives, just as it has impacted the author's life.

About the Author

Leanna Wolfe, PhD's sex research was spirited by coming of age in the thick of the 1970s sexual revolution and feminist movement in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her curiosities and academic appetites led her engage in field research in Mexico, Africa, India and Papua New Guinea. From 1980 to 2018 she worked as a university professor teaching and researching topics ranging from orgasm, multiple partner sexualities and sexual assault. In 2016 she launched Wise Woman Sex and Relationship Consulting, providing counseling through her unique lens of Sexual Anthropology.

Book Information
ISBN 9781538174678
Author Leanna Wolfe
Format Paperback
Page Count 226
Imprint Rowman & Littlefield
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
Weight(grams) 472g
Dimensions(mm) 254mm * 178mm * 25mm