The Languages of Sexuality

ISBN-13: 9780415375726 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 264 str.

Jeffrey Weeks

Opis

Includes one hundred words that are key to the understanding of contemporary sexualities and intimacies. This book shows how meanings change, their need to be contextualized, and how they can become 'magical' in the unfolding of sexual meanings.

Spis treści

A-Z of Entries.  Addiction.  Age.  Authenticity.  Autonomy.  Bisexuality.  Blackmail.  Bodies.  Bohemia.  Boundaries.  Care.  Citizenship.  Commitment.  Community.  Commodities.  Consent.  Construction.  Cultures.  Curiosity.  Cybersex.  Death.  Democracy.  Desire.  Dirt.  Disease.  Drugs.  Ecstasy.  Equality.   Eros.  Essence.  Experiments.  Families.  Fantasy.  Femininity.  Feminism.  Fetish.  Friendship.  Fundamentalism.  Gay.  Gender.  Genes.  Globalisation.  Heterosexuality.  Homosexuality.  Homophobia.  Identity.  Individualism.  Intimacy.  Jealousy.  Knowledge.  Lesbianism.  Liberation.  Love.  Masculinity.  Marriage.  Masturbation.  Metrosexuality.   Movements.  Needs.  Orgasm.  Otherness.  Paedophilia.  Parenting.  Partnership.  Panic.  Performance.  Perversion.  Phallus.  Pleasure.  Polyamorous.   Pornography.  Prostitution.  Power.  Privacy.  Queer.  Race.  Religion.  Regulation.   Relationships.  Reproduction.  Respect.  Responsibility.  Rights.  Rites.  Sadomasochism.  Safety.   Science.  Sexuality.  Sodomy.   Space.  Stories.  Tourism.  Tradition.  Transgender.  Transgression.  Utopia.  Values.  Vice.  Victims.  Violence.  Voyeurism.  Words. 

O autorze

Jeffrey Weeks is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at London South Bank University, having previously held senior management posts there as Executive Dean, (Arts and Human Sciences), and University Director of Research. His publications have been chiefly concerned with the history and sociology of sexuality and intimate life, and he is the author of more than a hundred articles and over twenty books. Recent publications include The World We Have Won (2007) and Sexuality, third edition (2009).