
Living with Dissonance: Women Students Speak Out about Sex
Author(s) -
Roseanne Saad Khalaf
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
al-raida
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2226-4841
pISSN - 0259-9953
DOI - 10.32380/alrj.v0i0.184
Subject(s) - feeling , cognitive dissonance , psychology , gender studies , social psychology , developmental psychology , sociology
This essay focuses exclusively on the views of women students at the American University of Beirut (AUB). The initial study examined the personal texts and discourse of forty-three students, men and women, enrolled in three creative writing sections over the course of one academic semester.Participants crafted personal texts in order to explore their views, feelings, and lived experiences regarding sex.