| Sexualizing the Social: Power and the Organization of Sexuality 1996 Edition Contributor(s): Adkins, Lisa (Editor), Merchant, Vicki (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0312160259 ISBN-13: 9780312160258 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $56.05 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 1996 Annotation: Sociologists are increasingly aware that analyses of social life must include a consideration of how the social may be structured by the sexual. In turn, this insight is contributing to a shift in understandings of sociology. This volume - drawn from papers from the 1994 British Sociological Association Annual Conference on 'Sexualities in Social Context' - brings together a range of writers who are contributing to this exciting new agenda. Various aspects of social life - including employment, family life, representations, politics, identities and the workings of the law - are considered, in terms of how sexuality shapes their organization and they shape sexuality. In so doing a series of ongoing and new controversies and debates are confronted, from the relationship of feminism to prostitution to the constitution of the self in late modernity. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Psychology | Human Sexuality (see Also Social Science - Human Sexuality) - Social Science | Sociology - General - Social Science | Gender Studies |
| Dewey: 306.7 |
| LCCN: 95026258 |
| Series: Explorations in Sociology. |
| Physical Information: 0.75" H x 5.51" W x 8.52" (0.70 lbs) 228 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Sociologists are increasingly aware that analyses of social life must include a consideration of how the social may be structured by the sexual. In turn, this insight is contributing to a shift in understandings of sociology. This volume - drawn from papers from the 1994 British Sociological Association Annual Conference on 'Sexualities in Social Context' - brings together a range of writers who are contributing to this exciting new agenda. Various aspects of social life - including employment, family life, representations, politics, identities and the workings of the law - are considered, in terms of how sexuality shapes their organization and they shape sexuality. In so doing a series of ongoing and new controversies and debates are confronted, from the relationship of feminism to prostitution to the constitution of the self in late modernity. |