SEX · SEX INSTRUCTION
Ruth K. Westheimer
Also known as: Dr. Ruth, Ruth Westheimer
Ruth Westheimer is an American sex therapist, media personality, and author best known as Dr. Ruth. The New York Times described her as a "Sorbonne-trained psychologist who became a kind of cultural icon in the 1980s.… She ushered in the new age of freer, franker talk about sex on radio and television—and was endlessly parodied for her limitless enthusiasm and for having an accent only a psychologist could have." Westheimer was born Karola Ruth Siegel in Wiesenfeld , Germany. Westheimer earned a master's degree in sociology from The New Schooland an Ed.D. from Teachers College, Columbia University. She completed post-doctoral work in human sexuality at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, training with pioneer sex therapist Helen Singer Kaplan.She has written several books on human sexuality, including Dr. Ruth's Encyclopedia of Sex and Sex for Dummies. The full version of Dr. Ruth's Encyclopedia of Sex is currently available online. - wikipedia
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Most acclaimed
First Love
Josie S- has come with her mother Delia to live in her great-aunt Esther Burkhardt's house in upstate New York. Also living there is Josie's cousin, Jared, Jr., on leave from the Presbyterian seminary. Preoccupied with his studies, impeccably dressed in his starched white shirts, distant and mysterious, Jared, Jr. is an intriguing figure to Josie's curious and impressionable young mind. One summer afternoon, when Josie encounters Jared, Jr. at the riverbank behind the Burkhardt house, dark secrets are shared between them as an unnatural love blooms. A moody sense of foreboding grips the reader from page one as religion, whispers of dark family secrets, violations of trust and virginity, bad blood, and a hint of incest all haunt the landscape of this startling tale of divided family loyalties, psychological manipulation, and the tangled strands of love and fear in the mind of a young girl groping for her way in one fractured American family.
Grandparenthood
A proud grandmother of three, Dr. Ruth Westheimer offers information, advice, and resources for the first-time grandparent as well as the experienced pro. Written with Dr. Steven Kaplan, father of three, Grandparenthood also offers a parent's perspective. The authors answer both common and not-so-common questions grandparents and parents ask.
Human Sexuality
New and revised content examines the most important developments across a broad range of topics including gender, sexual identity, self-concept, and the psychosocial environment; sexual arousal and responsiveness; fertility and infertility; contraception; treatment of sexually transmitted diseases and AIDS, and more. The book combines academic and clinical expertise that provides an engaging exploration that goes beyond traditional introductory texts.