MEN'S AND WOMEN'S BELIEFS ABOUT GENDER AND SEXUALITY

Emily W. Kane · Mimi Schippers

41 citations0/0 files storedGender & Society

No readable copy stored yet — this record is metadata only.

No open-access location is known for this record yet.

Literature note Cite in a project Citation map

Gender and Feminist Studies LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy Gender, Sexuality, and Education

Abstract

Feminist scholarship highlighting the importance of sexuality suggests the utility of studying beliefs about gender and sexuality, but the public opinion literature on gender-related attitudes has paid almost no attention to this issue. This research report addresses U.S. men's and women's beliefs about several aspects of sexuality: gender differences in sexual drives, gender inequalities in sexual power, and sexual orientation. The results suggest that men and women tend to share similar beliefs about sexual drives and sexual orientation but disagree notably on issues of sexual power. In addition, naturalization of sexuality is associated with greater acceptance of the sexual status quo, suggesting that naturalizing beliefs play a role in maintaining sexual inequality.

Paper brief

Loading…

Cite this work

Citation unavailable for this work.

BibTeX RIS CSL-JSON

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Citations in this library

Citation map →

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 41 citations exist upstream.

References

1976The History of Sexuality 1988Gender and Power: Society, the Person, and Sexual Politics.1980Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence 1980Cultural myths and supports for rape.1994Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud 1995The social organization of sexuality: sexual practices in the United States 1976Against Our Will. Men, Women and Rape 1978Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape

Cited by

2008“Alcohol Allows You to Not Be Yourself”: Toward a Structured Understanding of Alcohol Use and Gender Difference among Gay, Lesbian, and Heterosexual Youth 1998Of lust and love: Beliefs about the role of sexual desire in romantic relationships 2004A Regional Tradition of Gender Equity: Shanghai Men in Sydney, Australia 2013Revisiting “The fertilization fairytale:” an analysis of gendered language used to describe fertilization in science textbooks from middle school to medical school 2008Rape Myths Among Appalachian College Students

Explore the map →

Papers that cite the same references — the relational fallback while embeddings are still backfilling.

Imported from OpenAlex (CC0) — nothing here is generated.