Sexualities: Sexualities and their futures

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Kenneth Plummer
Taylor & Francis, 2002 - Psychology - 467 pages
Volume 1: Making a Sociology of Sexualities. Focusing on the evaluations of some of the major traditions of sex research and theory, dating back to the nineteenth century, this section gives an overview of the entire field. Drawn from a broad range of sources, articles include evaluations of some of the founders of the field, survey research, anthropological fieldwork, social psychological experimentation and contemporary ethnology.
 

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SEXUALITIES AND THEIR FUTURES
1
representing lust in public
30
Amorous senses
57
Intimacy as democracy
77
Intimacy transformed? A critical look at the pure relationship
91
Organizing AIDS
113
sex research for AIDS prevention
142
Notes for a genealogy of safe sex
174
Five reasons I dont take queer theory seriously
245
Global gaysglobal gaze
276
Suck my nation masculinity ethnicity and the politics
296
Tinysex and gender trouble
318
Cyberqueer
343
The sexual citizen
363
theorizing sexual rights
382
inventing a concept mapping
408

sociology and the study of sexuality
191
sexual revolution in sociology
212
queering sociology
226

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