Thomas S. Weinberg, Staci Newmahr

Selves, Symbols, and Sexualities

An Interactionist Anthology

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Offering an anthology of original articles on sexuality from a sociological perspective, Selves, Symbols, and Sexualities: An Interactionist Anthology focuses on the diverse and multi-layered meanings of sexuality, sexual behaviors and sexual identities. Thomas S. Weinberg and Staci Newmahr bring you essays that 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sage Publications, Inc
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. März 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 191mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 643g
• ISBN-13: 9781452276656
• ISBN-10: 145227665X
• Artikelnr.: 39363470

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Theorizing Sex Ch.1 Sex, Symbolic Interactionism, and Social Constructionism by Chris Brickell Ch.2 Muscle and Blood: Erotic Fantasy in Theory and Practice by Don Kulick Ch.3 Stating Desire: Sexuality, the State, and Social Control by Misty Luminais Ch.4 Scripting Sexual Practice in Differing Social Contexts: Young Women Negotiating Mothers
Expectations in Hong Kong and Britain by Stevi Jackson and Petula Sik Ying Ho Ch.5 Sex as Theater: Action, Character and the Erotic by Charles Edgley Part II. Constructing Sexual Meanings Ch.6 Talking Sex: Parents, Schools, and Sexuality by Sinikka Elliott and Josephine Ngo McKelvy Ch.7 Techno-sexuality: The Sexual Pragmatists of the Technological Age by Dennis D. Waskul Ch.8 Painting Desire Pink: Meaning-Making at a Romance Sex Store by Alison Better Part III. Negotiating Sexual Selfhood Ch.9 "
Somewhere between Evangelical and Queer
: Sexual-Religious Identity Work in an LGBT Christian Church by J. Edward Sumerau Ch.10 Negotiating Promiscuity: Straight Edge (sXe), Sex, and the Self by Jamie L. Mullaney Ch.11 The Challenges of Identity Formation for Bisexual-Multiracial Women of Asian/White Descent by Beverly Yuen Thompson Ch.12 "Give Me a Dominant of Any Gender Over Any Kind of Non-Dominant": Sexual Orientation Beyond Gender by Brandy L. Simula Part IV. Sex, Emotion, and Identity Ch.13 "Bittersweet" Emotions, Identities, and Sexualities: Insights From a Lesbian Community Space by Clare Forstie Ch.14 Not Necessarily Broken: Redefining Success When Polyamorous Relationships End by Elisabeth Sheff Ch.15 A Symbolic Interactionist Approach to Asexuality by Susie Scott, Matt Dawson, and Staci Newmahr Part V. Sexual Stories Ch.16 The Unfortunate Adventures of a Girl in the Know by Stella Meningkat Ch.17 Backroom "Dance" by Ruby Pearson Ch.18 A Conflicted Mind by John P. Ch.19 On Confessing One
s Kink in a Sexuality Textbook by Tanya Bezreh Ch.20 Intersections of Vampirism and Sexuality: A Narrative Description of a Vampire Feeding by D J Williams Ch.21 Adjusting the Inner Face by Giselle Ridgeway