Sexualities: Past Reflections, Future Directions

Sexualities: Past Reflections, Future Directions PDF

Author: Sally Hines

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2012-05-09

Total Pages: 315

ISBN-13: 1137002786

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This collection examines recent theoretical and methodological debates, shifts in law and policy, and social and cultural changes around sexuality. It sets out new ways of conceptualizing and researching sexuality and explores persistently marginalised and re-traditionalised sexual practices, subjectivities and identities.

Same Sex Marriages

Same Sex Marriages PDF

Author: B. Heaphy

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2013-03-05

Total Pages: 205

ISBN-13: 1137311061

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Based on extensive couple and individual interviews with young same sex couples who have legally formalized their relationships, this book argues that same sex marriages as they are lived need to be understood in terms of interlinked developments in lesbian and gay life, heterosexual relationships and in personal life.

Changing Gay Male Identities

Changing Gay Male Identities PDF

Author: Andrew J. Cooper

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-04-12

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 1136163786

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As the world changes, so sexual identities are changing. In a context of globalisation, mass communication and technological advances, individuals find themselves able to make lifestyle choices in new and different ways. In this increasingly confusing world, sociologists have argued that identities are in flux, and that traditional patterns of identity and intimacy are being disrupted and reshaped, with all the implications for sexual identities that this suggests. Changing Gay Male Identities draws on the powerful life stories of twenty-one gay men to explore how individuals construct and maintain their sense of self in contemporary society. The book draws upon theoretical debates on topics such as gender, performance, sex, class, camp, race and ethnicity, to explore four aspects of identity: the role of the body in who we are relationships and communities performing in everyday life reconciling different aspects of our selves (such as religion and sexuality). In Changing Gay Male Identities Andrew Cooper assesses the magnitude of these social and sexual changes. He argues that although there are many opportunities for new forms of identity in a changing world, the possibilities can be significantly constrained, and that this has major implications for the freedoms and choices of individuals in contemporary societies. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of sociology, sexuality studies, gender studies, and GLBTQ studies.

Making 'Postmodern' Mothers

Making 'Postmodern' Mothers PDF

Author: M. Nash

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2012-11-14

Total Pages: 247

ISBN-13: 1137292156

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Based on interviews with pregnant women, this book provides a multi-disciplinary empirical account of pregnant embodiment and how it relates to wider sociological and feminist discourses about gender, bodies, 'fitness', 'fat', celebrity and motherhood.

Queer Presences and Absences

Queer Presences and Absences PDF

Author: Yvette Taylor

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2013-04-09

Total Pages: 277

ISBN-13: 1137314354

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This book explores changes and continuations in lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer lives, identities and spatial practices in the 21st century from around the globe, using a range of methods to connect pasts, places and policies with contemporary times, linking individual and social presences (and absences) affectively and materially.

Masculinities, Care and Equality

Masculinities, Care and Equality PDF

Author: N. Hanlon

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2012-07-31

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 113726487X

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This book explores men's ambiguous relationship with intimate caring work within a context where carefree and nurturing expectations for men are competing for influence. For men, to be more involved carers clashes with commonly valued expectations of them as men and this book analyses how men confront this contradictory expectation.

Sexualities Research

Sexualities Research PDF

Author: Andrew King

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-08-18

Total Pages: 410

ISBN-13: 1317529677

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How is sexuality studied methodologically? How are we innovating, methodologically, in the study of sexuality? What impact, if any, has the increase in mixed methodologies had on the study of sexuality? Sexualities Research brings together original contributions by emerging and world-leading scholars of sexuality. Through this volume the authors seek to address how theoretical and methodological choices enable wider dissemination and social impact of sexualities research. Indeed, covering a diverse range of theoretical perspectives and methodologies to provide important new insights into human sexuality, the chapters cover an array of topics from the experience of researching sexuality, to using theories in new and innovative ways. With an international scope, Sexualities Research also builds on the re-emergence of the European Sociological Association Sexuality Research Network and asks important questions about the study of sexuality in contemporary societies against the background of political upheaval and economic troubles. Certainly, this collection shows the importance and vitality of sociological understandings of human sexuality in the twenty-first century. An enlightening volume consisting of a variety of case studies and theoretical research, Sexualities Research will appeal to undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as postdoctoral researchers who are interested in fields such as Sociology, LGBT/Queer Studies and Gender Studies.

Understanding Narrative Identity Through Lesbian and Gay Youth

Understanding Narrative Identity Through Lesbian and Gay Youth PDF

Author: Edmund Coleman-Fountain

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-07-23

Total Pages: 140

ISBN-13: 113731270X

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This book contests the idea that lesbian and gay categories are disappearing, and that sexuality is becoming fluid, by showing how young people use them in a world in which heterosexuality is privileged. Exploring identity making, the book shows how old modernist stories of sexual being entwine with narratives of normality.

Men, Masculinities, Travel and Tourism

Men, Masculinities, Travel and Tourism PDF

Author: T. Thurnell-Read

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-10-22

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 1137341467

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Men, Masculinities, Travel and Tourism draws together established and emerging academics that have a key interest in men, masculinity, travel and tourism. Through the chapters collected in this volume the reader will be exposed to cutting edge research and writing that offer global and local perspectives within these fields.