Selves, symbols, and sexualities : contemporary readings

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Author:

Weinberg, Thomas S.

ISBN:

9781452276656

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pages cm.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I THEORIZING SEX -- Introduction -- 1.Sex, Symbolic Interactionism, and Social Constructionism / Chris Brickell -- 2.Muscle and Blood: Erotic Fantasy in Theory and Practice / Don Kulick -- 3.Stating Desire: Sexuality, the State, and Social Control / Misty Luminais -- 4.Scripting Sexual Practice in Differing Social Contexts: Young Women Negotiating Mothers' Expectations in Hong Kong and Britain / Petula Sik Ying Ho -- 5.Sex as Theater: Action, Character, and the Erotic / Charles Edgley -- pt. II CONSTRUCTING SEXUAL MEANINGS -- Introduction -- 6.Talking Sex: Parents, Schools, and Sexuality / Josephine Ngo McKelvy -- 7.Techno-sexuality: The Sexual Pragmatists of the Technological Age / Dennis D. Waskul -- 8.Painting Desire Pink: Meaning-Making at a Romance Sex Store / Alison Better -- pt. III NEGOTIATING SEXUAL SELFHOOD -- Introduction --

Contents note continued: 9."Somewhere Between Evangelical and Queer": Sexual-Religious Identity Work in a LGBT Christian Church / J. Edward Sumerau -- 10.Negotiating Promiscuity: Straight Edge (sXe), Sex, and the Self / Jamie L. Mullaney -- 11.The Challenges of Identity Formation for Bisexual-Multiracial Women of Asian/White Descent / Beverly Yuen Thompson -- 12."Give Me a Dominant of Any Gender Over Any Kind of Non-Dominant": Sexual Orientation Beyond Gender / Brandy L. Simula -- pt. IV SEX, EMOTION, AND IDENTITY -- Introduction -- 13."Bittersweet" Emotions, Identities, and Sexualities: Insights From a Lesbian Community Space / Clare Forstie -- 14.Not Necessarily Broken: Redefining Success When Polyamorous Relationships End / Elisabeth Sheff -- 15.A Symbolic Interactionist Approach to Asexuality / Staci Newmahr -- pt. V SEXUAL STORIES -- Introduction -- 16.The Unfortunate Adventures of a Girl in the Know / Stella Meningkat -- 17.Backroom "Dance" / Ruby Pearson --

Contents note continued: 18.A Conflicted Mind / P. John -- 19.On Confessing One's Kink in a Sexuality Textbook / Tanya Bezreh -- 20.Intersections of Vampirism and Sexuality: A Narrative Description of a Vampire Feeding / D J Williams -- 21.Adjusting the Inner Face / Giselle Ridgeway.

Subject Term:

Sex.

Sexual orientation.

Identity (Psychology)

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Weinberg, Thomas S.

Newmahr, Staci.

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Offering an anthology of original articles on sexuality from a sociological perspective, this book focuses on the diverse and multi-layered meanings of sexuality, sexual behaviors, and sexual identities. The essays explore sexuality as a social process. As a whole, the book takes the perspective that what each of us understands to be sexual is constructed through everyday social processes and interaction, situated in particular spaces and moments, identified through our social-sexual presentations, and symbolized through language, objects and practices. The book is organized around these four distinct but interrelated processes, and augmented by personal narratives around relevant issues. The authors' goals for the book are to engage students in the sociological enterprise by providing interesting and insightful entries that emphasize the importance of meaning-making in human sexuality, and to provide them with conceptual tools to understand human sexuality in a complex and quickly changing sexual landscape.