Sexualities: Past Reflections, Future Directions: (Genders and Sexualities in the Social Sciences)

This collection examines recent theoretical and methodological debates, shifts in law and policy, and social and cultural changes around sexuality. It sets out new ways of conceptualizing and researching sexuality and explores persistently marginalised and re-traditionalised sexual practices, subjectivities and identities.

Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction Reflexive Sexualities and Reflexive Sociology; B.Heaphy The Affect of Methods; J.Gabb To Pass Without Hindrance: Citizenship, Community, Diversity – or Death; Y.Taylor Telling Personal Stories in Academic Research Publications: Reflexivity, Intersubjectivity and Contextual Positionalities'; C.Klesse Born This Way: Congenital Heterosexuals and the Making of Heteroflexibility; J.Ward Straight Indiscretions or Queer Hypocrites: Public Negotiations of Identity and Sexual Behaviour; E.Shapiro The Romantic Imaginary: Compulsory Coupledom & Single Existence; E.Wilkinson Reimagining Families of Choice; R.Jones-Wild The Politics of Sexuality in Portugal: Confronting Tradition, Enacting Change; A.Santos Stirring it Up – Again: A Politics of Difference in the New Millennium; S.Hines Erotic Care: A Queer Feminist Bathhouse and the Power of Attentive Action; D.Cooper 'Shanghai Goes West': A Story of the Development of a Commercial Gay Scene in China; C.Bassi 'Sexing Up' Bodily Aesthetics: Notes towards Theorizing Trans Sexuality; Z.Davy & E.Steinbock Past, Present and Future: Exploring the Sexual Identities of People with Learning Difficulties; R.Garbutt Index

About the Author :
CAMILA BASSI Lecturer in Human Geography at Sheffield Hallam University, UK DAVINA COOPER Professor of Law and Political Theory in the Law School at the University of Kent, UK ZOWIE DAVY Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School of Health and Social Care, University of Lincoln, UK JACQUI GABB Lecturer at the Open University, UK CORIE HAMMERS Assistant Professor in the Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies Department at Macalester College, USA BRIAN HEAPHY Head of Sociology at the University of Manchester, UK RACHEL JONES-WILD PhD candidate at Newcastle University, UK CHRISTIAN KLESSE Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies at the Department of Sociology, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK ANA CRISTINA SANTOS Researcher at the Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, Portugal and an Honorary Research Fellow at the Birkbeck Institute for Social Research, Birkbeck, University of London, UK EVE SHAPIRO Assistant Professor at Westfield State University, USA ELIZA STEINBOCK Lecturer in the Humanities Department at the Amsterdam University College, Netherlands JANE WARD Associate Professor of Women's Studies at the University of California Riverside, USA ELEANOR WILKINSON graduated from the School of Geography at the University of Leeds, UK

Review :
'In this exciting new collection of work, readers can learn about emergent sexual identities, waning norms, new modes of family, alternative forms of intimacy and a full range of transitivities that characterize our current organizations of eros, embodiment and desire. This is an exciting anthology: it brims with newness, it points to new directions and it departs decisively from the the known and the humdrum. Hines and Taylor have begun many new conversations by combining this methodologically rich and unusual work into one volume. Sexualities will be a resource for sexuality researchers for decades to come!' - Jack Halberstam, Professor of English and Director of the Center for Feminist Research, University of Southern California, USA and author of Gaga Feminism: Sex, Gender and the End of Normal