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Ilsa Lokke
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To my high
school classmates, April 29,2007 I have enjoyed reading about many of your stories. I do plan to come to the reunion and look forward to hearing more about you. Perhaps we can even keep more in touch by continuing to update our website. My father died at the end of 1998 but my 92 year old mother lives at University Place, a new retirement home in WL that draws many Purdue associated retirees. So I can conveniently visit my mother and attend the reunion. After high school I stayed in WL and got my BS and MS in mathematics. Mr Fites did such a good job of teaching me and that helped me to do well on formal tests. So for 15 years I taught math in the public schools, for a couple years in WL but mostly in a suburb of Philadelphia. I did not find teaching math rewarding and in the late 1970s sought another path. In 1981 I started graduate school at the University of Pennsylvania and eared my PhD in a program called 'Measurement and Evaluation Techniques in Experimental Research'. This program again was grounded in my 'strong quantitative skills'. In the fall of 1987 I was hired in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) in Baltimore to teach mostly research methods and statistics to sociology majors, at both undergraduate and graduate levels. While in graduate school at Penn, I also took many courses in human sexuality and sociology. So now at UMBC I also teach courses in sexuality and sexual health from sociological and cross-cultural perspectives. My publications are nearly all in the sexuality area with only one dealing with statistics. I think Jim D. will paste the flyer from my edited book onto this page for any one who is interested in my work. I would define myself as a 'late bloomer'. My twins-Lillian and Eric--were born in 1976. So I became a parent when I was older than most of you were when you had your first child. I would say that around the time of becoming a parent, I changed. It was more difficult to stay 'me centered'. Unfortunately my husband Jim, at the time, did not seem to change in ways consistent with my new world view and values. So now we are both married and settled with new mates. I would not describe myself as a born again Christian but as someone who is a human rights advocate and works to help and promote the interests of those who have least power and material resources. In sociology one would say that I am concerned with issues of inequality. I now take a human rights perspective in teaching my sexuality courses. However, I do think my human rights views are fundamentally consistent with Christian doctrine. One aspect of my job is that I have been able to take sabbaticals to travel and work in other areas of the world. In the last 20 years I have spent three years working in the Department of Sociology at the University of Helsinki in Finland. Much of my research is international, and over half of the conferences I attend are outside of the USA. Having many international colleagues and students has been an especially rewarding part of my work. The picture you see is of me in Amsterdam in the summer of 2006. The two pictures of me riding bikes are in Helsinki from 2006-2007 when I was working there. All over Finland one finds bike and walking paths. Thus, in that country they are trying to do their part to reduce global warming. Another one of the pictures is me in the middle of a forest where my husband is building a cabin where we can escape from the tensions of work. At this cabin in middle Finland there is no electricity or inside running water. We do have very clean water from a stream on his land which we access with a generator. Bathing takes place in a smoke sauna, with stones heated by a wood fire. I met my present husband, a Finn in 1998 at a dance event in Helsinki. Dancing is institutionalized in Finland, and there are lots of places where 'old people' like me can go to dance. Indeed, now we regularly take dance class lessons in the Baltimore area so we can get some much needed execise. Take care and see many of you the end of June. Ilsa Lokke Ilsa ========================================================= New Views on Sexual Health. The Case of Finland
Ilsa Lottes, Osmo Kontula (editors) The book was published on the occasion of the conference Sexual Health in the New Millennium and the 23rd annual meeting of the Nordic Association for Clinical Sexology. This book expands upon the new approach to sexual health adopted by international consensus at the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo and the 1995 4th World Conference on Women in Beijing. This approach emphasises the empowerment of individuals and considers sexual health issues within a human rights framework. An integrative model of sexual health consistent with this framework is presented that can be used to examine sexual health services in any country. This model is then used to describe and evaluate sexual health services in Finland. This book will be valuable to health professionals, educators, researchers in government and academia, social workers, legislators, policy makers, and anyone who is interested in promoting the sexual health of people. Ilsa Lottes is an associate professor of Sociology at the University of Maryland Baltimore County, in Baltimore. Osmo Kontula is a docent, senior researcher at the Population Research Institute of the Family Federation of Finland in Helsinki. Lottes,Ilsa; Kontula, Osmo:New Views on Sexual Health. The Case of Finland. The Population Research Institute,Väestöliitto, The Family Federation of Finland D 37 2000.ISBN 952-9605-58-7 Price: FIM 100 (about $20.00)+ postage. Contact to purchase book: Stina Fågel tel. +358-9-228 05 120 E-mail address:stina.fagel@vaestoliitto.fi Population Research Institute, Family Federation of Finland P.O. BOX 849 00101 Helsinki, Finland
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