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Introducing the New Sexuality Studies: Original Essays

Steven Seidman, Nancy L. Fischer, Laurel Westbrook

Chapter 8

Method matters: discovering how early motherhood, monogamy, and social class shape young women’s sexuality - all with Video Answers

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Chapter Questions

01:07

Problem 1

Why were previous researchers and news media under the impression that bisexuality and sexual fluidity was more common among college women than among working-class women? Why do the research methods matter?

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Problem 2

This chapter describes a feedback loop relationship between stereotypes, science, and identity using the example of bisexuality. Give an example of how the following combinations from the feedback loop influenced each other in the construction of bisexuality: (1) stereotypes and identity, (2) stereotypes and science, and (3) identity and science.

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Problem 3

Why did working-class women who previously had same-sex sexual experiences and desire describe themselves as heterosexual once they became mothers?

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