The Source: Volume 3, Issue 3, February/March 2000

The Source: Volume 3, Issue 3, February/March 2000

Conferences

Contraceptive Technology: Issues and Options in Reproductive Health Care is scheduled for March 16-18, 2000, in Washington, DC, at the Grand Hyatt Washington, and on March 30-April 1, 2000 in San Francisco, CA at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco. Sessions will address contraception, sexually transmitted diseases, and sexual health. SIECUS President, Debra W. Haffner, M.P.H., will be the conference luncheon speaker. Registration fees before February 2, 2000 (for Washington, DC) and before February 16 (for San Francisco), 2000 are $425/doctors; $315/nurses, physicians assistants, residents, and other health professionals; and $245 full-time students.

For more information:

Contemporary Forums
19000 Silvergate Drive
Dublin, CA 94568-2257
Phone: 925/828-7100, extension 3
Fax: 800/329-9923
Web site: http://www.cforums.com

The 18th National Conference on Health Education and Health Promotion and the SOPHE Mid-year Scientific Conference, is scheduled for May 16-19, 2000, in Denver, CO. The theme of the conference is "Health Promotion Excellence in the New Century: Ascending New Heights." Sessions will concentrate on health promotion policy and advocacy; workforce training; technology; and healthy people from 2010 and beyond.

For more information and a bulletin:

Association of State and Territorial Directors of Health
Promotions and Public Health Education
750 First Street, N.E., Suite 1050
Washington, DC 20002
Phone: 202/312-6460
Fax: 202/216-7610
Web site: http://www.astdhpphe.org

Books

Back to Love: Sex After Hip Replacement
Pritchett & Hull Associates, Inc.
This booklet encourages hip replacement patients to talk about sexuality, their feelings, and concerns; to learn other ways to find pleasure; to learn positions to help protect their new hip and increase comfort; and to learn what to do if their hip dislocates.
2000; $4.75/retail; ISBN 0-939838-52-4; Pritchett & Hull Associates, Inc., 3440 Oakcliff Road, N.E., Suite 110, Atlanta, GA 30340-3079; Phone: 800/241-4925; Fax: 800/752-0510; Web site: http://www.p-h.com

Kissed The Girls and Made Them Cry: Helping Children Understand Sexism in Our Society
Janet Ruth Falon
This book is intended as a tool-for counselors, therapists, teachers, or parents-to help children learn about respecting other people. It encourages counselors, therapists, teachers, or parents to evaluate their gender views and biases. It also includes a story for adults to read with children to foster communication on sexism.
1998; $15.95; Childswork/Childsplay, LLC, 135 Dupont Street, Plainview, NY 11803; Phone: 800/962-1141; Fax: 516/349-5521.

Curricula

The Gender Respect Workbook: Group Activities to Teach Non-Sexist Behavior to Children
Janet Ruth Falon
This workbook encourages educators to examine and challenge personal gender-respect biases and to integrate respect into their classrooms. It consists of 70 activities to use in the classroom that address gender issues.
1998; $18.95; Childswork/Childsplay, LLC, 135 Dupont Street, Plainview, NY 11803; Phone: 800/962-1141; Fax: 516/349-5521.

Conferences

The Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality, Western Regional Annual Conference, The Prism of Eroticism is scheduled for April 6-9, 2000, in San Diego, CA, at the Humphrey’s Half-Moon Inn and Suites. General sessions include “Looking Back On Sexology: What I Know Now That I Didn’t Know Then,” Debra Haffner, M.P.H.; “Erotic Motives and Experiences of Sex Offenders,” Noel Larson, Ph.D.; “Paraphilia ad Sexual Orientation: Unification in the New Millennium?” Charles Moser, M.D., Ph.D.; “Facial Symmetry, Pheromones, and Sexual Attraction,” Randy Thornhill, Ph.D.; “Swinging: Lifestyle, Psychopathology, or Media Creation?” Terry Gould; “Sex and the Dual-Earner Couple: Have the Media Duped Sexology?” Janet Shibley Hyde, Ph.D.; and “Erotic Archetypes As a Path to Profound Sexological Understanding,” Christine Downing, Ph.D. Registration fees before April 1, 2000, $195/SSSS/AASECT member, $225/nonmember, $95/student and retired member, and $115/student non-member.

For more information:

David S. Hall, Ph.D.
Executive Director, SSSS WR
2111 Lido Circle, Stockton, CA 95207-6014
Phone: 209/474-7421
Fax: 209/474-3801
E-mail: airsafe@gotnet.net