| Sexualities: Personal Lives and Social Policy Contributor(s): Carabine, Jean (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1861345186 ISBN-13: 9781861345189 Publisher: Policy Press OUR PRICE: $45.55 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2004 Annotation: This book explores the choices that we make about our sexuality and how these can transform our personal lives. It analyzes how social policy informs and responds to such choices through an examination of normative assumptions about sexuality and its role in forming, regulating and constituting welfare subjects, discourses, theories, provisions and practices. Drawing upon a number of analytical tools and theoretical perspectives, the authors illustrate that sexuality is simultaneously central and marginal to the concerns of social policy. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Psychology | Human Sexuality (see Also Social Science - Human Sexuality) - Political Science | Public Policy - Social Policy - Social Science | Gender Studies |
| Dewey: 306.7 |
| LCCN: 2004463217 |
| Series: Personal Lives and Social Policy |
| Physical Information: 176 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Sexualities: Personal Lives and Social Policy explores the choices that we make about our sexuality and how these can transform our personal lives. It analyses how social policy informs and responds to such choices through an examination of normative assumptions about sexuality and its role in forming, regulating and constituting welfare subjects, discourses, theories, provisions and practices. Drawing upon a number of analytical tools and theoretical perspectives, the authors illustrate that sexuality is simultaneously central and marginal to the concerns of social policy. They place particular emphasis on social policy as a site of regulation that restricts and constrains our personal lives, but also highlight how social policy might be used as an instrument of positive change. |
