Author: Ken Plummer
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: concepts, crit, sexualities
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2004-11-11
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ISBN-10: 0415212758
ISBN-13: 9780415212755

Author: Ken Plummer
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: concepts, crit, sexualities
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 2004-11-11
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ISBN-10: 0415212766
ISBN-13: 9780415212762

This set collects together the classic writings on sexuality from a social science perspective. Topics covered include the history of the study of sexuality, theoretical approaches, issues of gender and sexuality and recent developments.Some of the themes covered include: * Early Days: Sexology and Sociology* Creating a Critical Sociology of Sexualities in the Late Twentieth Century* Roles and Identities * Diversifications of Sexualities * Organizing Diversities in Subcultures * The Gendering of Sexualities * Constructing AIDS * Media and Cyberelations * and more.

Author: Signe Arnfred
Publisher: Nordic Africa Institute
Keywords: africa, sexualities, thinking
Number of Pages: 215
Published: 2004-08
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 917106513X
ISBN-13: 9789171065131

The volume brings together papers by African and Nordic /Scandinavian gender scholars and anthropologists in an attempt to investigate and critically discuss existing lines of thinking about sexuality in Africa, while at the same time creating space for alternative approaches. Issues of colonial and contemporary discourses on African sexuality and on female genital mutilation are being discussed, as well as issues of female agency and of feminists’ engagement with HIV/AIDS. The volume contributes to contemporary efforts of re-thinking sexualities in the light of feminist, queer and postc

Author: Bobby Hutchison
Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Dushkin
Keywords: sexualities, human, editions, annual
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2010-02-12
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ISBN-10: 0078050685
ISBN-13: 9780078050688

The Annual Editions series is designed to provide convenient, inexpensive access to a wide range of current articles from some of the most respected magazines, newspapers, and journals published today. Annual Editions are updated on a regular basis through a continuous monitoring of over 300 periodical sources. The articles selected are authored by prominent scholars, researchers, and commentators writing for a general audience. The Annual Editions volumes have a number of common organizational features designed to make them particularly useful in the classroom: a general introduction; an anno

Author: Bobby Hutchison
Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Dushkin
Keywords: sexualities, human, editions, annual
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2009-02-11
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ISBN-10: 0073516341
ISBN-13: 9780073516349

Annual Editions is a series of over 65 volumes, each designed to provide convenient, inexpensive access to a wide range of current articles from some of the most respected magazines, newspapers, and journals published today. Annual Editions are updated on a regular basis through a continuous monitoring of over 300 periodical sources. The articles selected are authored by prominent scholars, researchers, and commentators writing for a general audience. The Annual Editions volumes have a number of common organizational features designed to make them particularly useful in the classroom: a genera

Authors:Hugh Stevens, Caroline Howlett,
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Keywords: sexualities, modernist
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2001-04-07
List price: $33.00
ISBN-10: 0719051614
ISBN-13: 9780719051616

Leading critics from Britain, Canada, and the US examine modernism’s imaginative rethinkings of sex, gender, and sexuality. Original essays show how modernism intersects with the suffragette movement, technological change and its effects on women and labor, the growth of pseudo-scientific writings, and the burgeoning lesbian and gay movement. They show how modernism upsets the fixities of gender and sexuality through its fascination with ambiguities, marginality, and the crossing of borders. Sex reformers and sex changers, unsexed storytellers, typewriters, femme and butch experimenters,

Author: Rebecca F. Plante
Publisher: Westview Press
Keywords: perspective, social, context, sexualities
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2006-01-10
List price: $37.00
ISBN-10: 0813342937
ISBN-13: 9780813342931

Written in an accessible and clear manner, Sexualities in Context presents focused overviews and explorations of some of the most timely issues in the social construction of sex. This brief text is suitable for courses with coverage of gender and sexuality in sociology, psychology, women’s and gender studies, and human development. The only book of its kind to address sexualities from a social perspective, Plante’s analysis of the context of sexuality, sexual behaviors, and identities is both intelligent and readable. With contemporary topics, such as ’hooking up,’ sexu