Introducing the New Sexuality Studies: Original Essays

ISBN-13: 9780367756413 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 804 str.

Nancy L. Fischer; Laurel Westbrook; Steven Seidman

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Examining the social, cultural, and historical dimensions of sexuality, this innovation and accessible collection of original essays is designed for sexuality courses at undergraduate level. The fourth edition adds 51 new essays whilst retaining 33 popular essays from previous editions.

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Part 1: Laying the Foundations  1.Welcome to the New Sexuality Studies  2. Construction as a Social Process  3. The Shifting Boundaries of Sexual Morality  4.Trans Categories and the Sex/Gender/Sexuality System: How Transforming Understandings of Sex and Gender can Shift Sexuality  5. Unthinking Compulsory Sexuality: Introducing Asexuality  6. The Dos and Don'ts of Dating: Heterosexual and LGBTQ Dating Rituals as Sexual Scripts  7. Why Sexual Identities, Behaviors, and Attractions Do Not Always "Match"  8. Method Matters: Discovering How Early Motherhood, Monogamy, and Social Class Shape Young Women’s Sexuality  9. Suicide Is Only Part of the Story: Telling Wounded Truths About LGBTQ Youth  10. Sex-Positivity: A Black Feminist Gift  Part 2: Bodies and Behaviors  11. The History and Politics of Sexual Intercourse  12. Polishing the Pearl: Discoveries of the Clitoris  13. But Can You Ever Win? Genital Cosmetic Procedures, the Promise of Vulval Perfection, and the Production of Vulval Distress  14. The Social Meanings and Practices of Orgasm  15. Anal Sex: Phallic and Other Meanings  16. Rethinking Dick Pics  17. Reconceiving Unintended Pregnancy: Considering Context in Sexual and Reproductive Decision-Making  18. Sex in Later-Life: Beyond Dysfunction and the Coital Imperative  19. "There’s Really No Reason to Settle": Size Acceptance as a Path to Sexual Empowerment  Part 3: Relating and Relationships  20. Romance and Other Threats to Our Future  21. One is Not Born a Bride: Weddings and the Heterosexual Imaginary  22. Yes, No, Maybe So?: Inequalities in Sexual Consent and Sexual Pleasure for Young Adults  23. What Do Vulnerability, Shame, and Mindfulness Have To Do With Intimacy?  24. Interracial Romance: The Logic of Acceptance and Domination  25. Romantic Apartheid: Digital Sexual Racism in Online Dating  26. Sexualized Othering in Multiracial Women’s Experiences with Sex and Romance  27. Gay Racism: The Institutional and Interactional Patterns of Racism in Gay Communities  28. Gender Labor, Racework, and Trans Pleasure: Transgender Individuals’ Experiences in Intimate Relationships  29. "We Were on a BREAK!": Men Chasing Masculinity and Women Seeking Pleasure in Affairs  30. Polyamory, Mononormativity, and Polyqueer Kinship  Part 4: Sex, Gender, and Sexuality  31. Intersexy, but Fat: On the Selective Celebration of Bodily Differences  32. Trans Sexualities: Identities, Relationships, and Desires  33. Adolescent Girls’ Sexuality: Sexual Agency and the Renovated Sexual Double Standard  34. "There’s No Such Thing as a Slut": Creating and Destroying the "Good Girl" in Taylor Swift’s Musical Persona  35. "Guys Are Just Homophobic": Rethinking Adolescent Homophobia and Heterosexuality  36. Not "Straight" But Still a "Man": Negotiating Non-Heterosexual Masculinities  37. Straight Men and Women: Hegemonic and Counter-Hegemonic Straightness  38. How "Regular Sex" Contributes to the Gender Gap in Orgasms  39. Sacred and Beastly Sex: Abstinence Pledges and Masculinity  40. Heteroflexibility  Part 5: Social Structures and Institutions  41. The Economy and American Marriage: Change and Continuity  42. The Marriage Contract: The Legal Context of Marriage  43. The Elusive Goal of Sexual Health  44. Medicine and the Making of the Sexual Body  45. The Feminization of "Responsive" Desire  46. The Coloniality of Sexuality  47. "I Am God’s Creation": Religion as a Positive Force in the Lives of LGBTQ+ Persons of Faith  48. The Politics of Sexuality and Gender Expression in Schools  49. Sexual Education and Its Failures: From Social Inequalities to Intimate Possibilities  Part 6: Navigating Inequalities and Oppressions  50. The Body, Disability, and Sexuality  51. The Intersection of Sexuality and Intellectual Disabilities: Shattering the Taboo  52. Disrupting Dichotomies: Non-Binary Sexual Identities  53. Creando Una Familia: LBQ Latinas Facilitating Bonds Through Shared Race/Ethnicity  54. "Heterosexual Families Do Not Have to Explain themselves": Heteronormativity in the Lives of LGBTQ+ Children and Parents  55. Intersected Lives: Race, Class, and Gender in Lesbian- and Gay-Affirming Protestant Congregations  56. "The Thorn in My Side": How Ex-Gays, Ex-Ex-Gays, and Celibate Gays Negotiate Their Religious and Sexual Identities  57. The Racial and Sexual Stereotypes of the "Down Low"  58. Unspoiling Stigmatized Identities: Combatting Racial and Sexual Stigma  Part 7: Sexual Cultures, Places, and Scenes  59. Sexual Capital and Social Inequality: The Study of Sexual Fields  60. Belonging in Gay Neighborhoods and Queer Club Nights  61. Queering the Sexual and Racial Politics of Urban Revitalization  62. "We Will Always Remember": Reactivating Queer Places as Expressions of Grief, Solidarity, and Protest After Pulse  63. The Changing Role of Gay Bars in American LGBTQ+ Life  64. Learning to be Queer: College Women’s Sexual Fluidity  65. Critical Consent: Negotiating Consent in Trans-Les-Bi-Queer BDSM Communities  66. Nurturing through Normalizing, Endangering through Dramatizing: Approaches to Adolescent Sex and Love  Part 8: Sexual Labor and Commerce  67. The Sexual Economy and Nevada’s Legal Brothels  68. Inclusive Pleasure: Feminist Sex Shops  69. Looks for Sale: The Impact of Aesthetic Labor on Men Who Strip  70. Intimate Labor in the Adult Film Industry  71. Migrant Sex Work and Trafficking: Sorting them Out  72. Sex Work, the Victim, and the Anti-Trafficking Movement  73. Sex Workers’ Rights Activism in the United States: Navigating the Internet in an Age of S*x Work Censorship, State, and Corporate Surveillance  74. Challenging the Controlling Images of Vamps and Victims: Sex Work Activism in India  Part 9: Sexual Politics, Social Movements, and Empowerment  75. Sexuality, State, and Nation  76. Anti-Homosexuality Legislation and Religion Viewed from a Transnational Frame  77. The Religious Right, Same-Sex Marriage, and LGBTQ+ Rights Activism  78. The Evolution of Same-Sex Marriage Politics in the United States  79. The Politics of Race, Class, and Gender in Queer Safer Sex  80. Children’s Sexual Citizenship  81. War and the Politics of Sexual Violence  82. The History of Activism against Sexual Violence and the Modern #MeToo Movement  83. A Public Health Approach to Campus Sexual Assault Prevention: Sexual Citizenship, Projects, and Geographies  84. The Ally Paradox