Introducing the New Sexuality Studies is an innovative, reader-friendly anthology of original essays and interviews that introduces the field of Sexuality Studies to undergraduate students. Examining the social, cultural and historical dimensions of sexualities, this anthology is designed to serve as a comprehensive textbook for sexualities and gender-related courses at the undergraduate level.The books contributors include both well-established scholars, including Patricia Hill Collins, Jeffrey Weeks, Travis Kong, Deborah Tolman and C.J. Pascoe, as well as emerging voices in sexuality studies. This collection will provide students of sociology, gender and sexuality with a challenging and broad introduction to the social study of sexuality that they will find accessible and engaging.
General Introduction Part 1: Laying the Foundations Introduction
1.
Sexuality in the (Social) Construction Zone, Lars D. Christiansen and Nancy
L. Fischer
2. Theoretical Perspectives: From sexology to queer theory, Steven
Seidman
3. Black Sexual Politics Revisited: Interview with Patricia Hill
Collins
4. Transforming the Sex/Gender/Sexuality System: The construction of
trans categories in the U.S., Laurel Westbrook
5. Pioneering a Sociology of
Sexuality: Interview of Jeffrey Weeks
6. Surveying Sex: Interview with Edward
Laumann Part 2: Sexual Bodies Introduction
7. Medicine and the Making of a
Sexual Body, Celia Roberts
8. Polishing the Pearl: Discoveries of the
clitoris, Lisa Jean Moore
9. Viagra and the Coital Imperative, Nicola Gavey
10. Sex and the Senior Woman, Meika Loe
11. The Body, Disability, and
Sexuality, Thomas J. Gerschick
12. Orgasm, Juliet Richters
13. Anal Sex:
Phallic and other meanings, Simon Hardy Part 3: Genders and Sexualities
Introduction
14. Unruly Bodies: Intersex variations of sexual development,
Sharon Preves
15. From Transgender to Trans*: The ongoing struggle for the
inclusion, acceptance and celebration of identities beyond the binary, Joelle
Ryan
16. Adolescent Girls Sexuality: The more it changes, the more it stays
the same, Deborah Tolman
17. "Guys are Just Homophobic": Rethinking
adolescent homophobia and heterosexuality, C.J. Pascoe
18. Not "Straight,"
but Still a "Man": Negotiating non-heterosexual masculinities in Beirut,
Ghassan Moussawi
19. How not to Talk About Muslim Women: Patriarchy, Islam
and the sexual regulation of Pakistani women, Saadia Toor
20. Mis-Conceptions
About Unintended Pregnancy: Considering context in sexual and reproductive
decision-making, Jennifer A. Reich Part 4: Sexual Fluidity and Sexual
Identities Introduction
21. Introducing Asexuality, Unthinking Sex, Ela
Przybylo
22. Sexual Fluidity: Interview with Lisa Diamond
23. Learning to be
Queer: College womens sexual fluidity, Leila Rupp, Verta Taylor and Shaeleya
D. Miller
24. The Bisexual Menace Revisited. Or, shaking up social categories
is hard to do, Kristin G. Esterberg
25. Beyond Bi: Sexual fluidity, identity,
and the post-bisexual revolution, April Callis
26. Shrinking Lesbian Culture:
Interview of Arlene Stein
27. Straight Men and Women, James Joseph Dean
28.
Sexual Narratives of "Straight" Women, Nicole LaMarre
29. Mens Sexual
Flexibility, Eric Anderson and Stefan Robinson Part 5: Intimacies
Introduction
30. Romantic Love: Interview with Eva Illouz
31. Sexual Capital
and Social Inequality: The study of sexual fields, Adam Isaiah Green
32.
Identities, Inequalities, and the Partners Of Trans Folks, Carey Jean Sojka
33. Gender and the Organization of Heterosexual Intimacy, Daniel Santore
34.
Interracial Romance: The logic of acceptance and domination, Kumiko Nemoto
35. Inventions of Hetero-Sex in Later Life: Beyond dysfunction and coital
imperative, Linn Sandberg
36. Sexual Politics in Intimate Relationships:
Sexual coercion and harassment, Lisa K. Waldner Part 6: Sexual Lifestyles
Introduction
37. Contesting the Culture Of Monogamy: Consensual nonmonogamies
and polyamory, Christian Klesse
38. The Time of the Sadomasochist: Hunting
with(in) the "tribus", Darren Langdridge
39. Dominatrixes and the BDSM Scene:
Interview of Danielle Lindemann
40. The Racial and Sexual Stereotypes of the
"Down Low" on Craigslist.org, Salvador Vidal-Ortiz and Brandon Robinson
41.
Sexual Liberation and the Creative Class in Israel, Dana Kaplan
42.
Wikisexuality: A new category of sexuality in the virtual world, L. Ayu
Saraswati
43. The Thorn in my Side: How ex-gays, ex-ex-gays and celibate gays
negotiate their religious and sexual identities, SJ Creek Part 7: Sexuality,
Media and Commerce Introduction
44. Popular Culture Constructs Sexuality:
Interview of Joshua Gamson
45. "She isnt whoring herself out like a lot of
other girls we see": Heteronormative propriety and "authentic" American
girlhood on Taylor Swift forums, Adriane Brown
46. Gendered Dynamics of
Social Media, Sander de Ridder and Sofie Van Bauwel
47. Internet Sex: The
seductive "freedom to", Dennis Waskul
48. The Political Economy of Sexual
Labor: Interview with Elizabeth Bernstein
49. Sex Workers: Interview with
Wendy Chapkis
50. Intimate Labor in the Adult Film Industry, Heather Berg
51.
Making Politics Explicit: Depicting authenticity in women-made pornography,
Jill Bakehorn
52. Pleasure for Sale: Feminist sex stores, Alison Better Part
8: Sexual Regulation and Inequality Introduction
53. Sexuality, State, and
Nation, Jyoti Puri
54. Childrens Sexual Citizenship, Kerry H. Robinson
55.
One is not Born a Bride: How weddings regulate heterosexuality, Chrys
Ingraham
56. The marriage contract, Mary Bernstein
57. Lesbian and Gay
Parents: Situated subjects, Yvette Taylor
58. Purity and Pollution: Sex as a
moral discourse, Nancy Fischer
59. Christianity and the Regulation of
Sexuality in the United States, Joshua Grove
60. Healing (Disorderly)
Desire: Medical-therapeutic regulation of sexuality, P.J. McGann
61. Sex and
Power, Kristen Barber Part 9: Sexual Politics Introduction
62. The Evolution
of Same-Sex Marriage Politics in the U.S., Kathleen E. Hull
63. Gay Men and
Lesbians in the Netherlands. Gert Hekma and Jan Willem Duyvendak
64. Queering
the Sexual and Racial Politics of Urban Revitalization, Donovan Lessard
65.
Transgender Biopolitics in the U.S.: Regulating Gender through a
Heteronormative Lens, Jody Ahlm
66. Politics of Sex Education, Janice M.
Irvine
67. The Pro-Family Movement, Tina Fetner
68. Irans Sexual Revolution,
Pardis Mahdavi
69. War and the Politics of Sexual Violence, Margarita
Palacios and Silvia Posocco Part 10: Global and Transnational Sexualities
Introduction
70. Mexican Immigrants, Heterosexual Sex and Loving
Relationships in the United States: Interview with Gloria Gonzalez-Lopez
71.
Ugandas anti-Homosexuality Bill: Reflections from a transnational frame,
Marcia Oliver
72. Foreign-F Females: Debating womens transnational
sexualities in China, James Farrer
73. Condoms in the Global Economy, Peter
Chua
74. Sexual Tourism: Interview with Julia OConnell Davidson
75. Migrant
Sex Work and Trafficking: Sorting them out, Laura Agustin
76. The Public and
Hidden Sexualities of Filipina Women in Lebano, Hayeon Lee
Nancy L. Fischer is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of Urban Studies at Augsburg College in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. In 2009, she chaired the American Sociological Associations Section on Sexualities. In 2013, she edited a special section of The Sociological Quarterly on Critical Heterosexuality Studies. Besides sexuality, her research interests include a project on the US secondhand and vintage clothing industry.
Steven Seidman is a Professor of Sociology at the University at Albany (SUNY) and world renowned in the field of sexuality studies. He has authored many books, including Romantic Longings (Routledge), Embattled Eros (Routledge), Beyond the Closet (Routledge), The Social Construction of Sexuality (Norton), and, recently, Intimacies (Routledge).
