ABSTRACT

The Routledge Companion to Gender, Sexuality, and Culture is an intersectional, diverse, and comprehensive collection essential for students and researchers examining the intersection of sexuality and culture.

The book seeks to reflect established theories while anticipating future developments within gender, sexuality, and cultural studies. A range of international contributors, including leaders in their field, provide insights into dominant and marginalised subjects. Comprising over 30 chapters, the volume is comprised into five thematic parts: Identifying, Embodying, Making, Doing, and Resisting. Topics explored include homonormativity, poetry, video games, menstruation, fatness, disability, sex toys, sex work, BDSM, dating apps, body modifications, and politics and activism.

This is an important and unique collection aimed at scholars, researchers, activists, and practitioners across cultural studies, gender studies and sociology.

chapter |4 pages

Introduction

Genders, sexualities, cultures

part 1|80 pages

Identifying

chapter 1|10 pages

Destabilising cisgender

chapter 2|12 pages

Post-heteronormative saturation

What happens after romance

chapter 4|14 pages

How is gender dysphoria ‘treated'?

Signposts and hazards on the patient journey

chapter 5|11 pages

Imagined others

Paths of identity, alterity, and exclusion in LGBTQIA+ communities

chapter 6|11 pages

Virtual sexual identities

Embodied aspirations, tensions, and lessons from the Bumble dating app

chapter 7|9 pages

Time, age, and sexuality

The construction of non-normative identities in later life

part 2|105 pages

Embodying

chapter 8|12 pages

When the phallus is a ‘dick'

The cultural/material turn to breasts

chapter 9|10 pages

Dismembered nation, dismembered body

Negotiating gender and disability in the Bangladesh Liberation War, 1971

chapter 10|12 pages

‘Women don't own sexuality'

How ‘coloured' women in Cape Town embody, navigate, and resist sexual shame

chapter 11|9 pages

Fat women have bodies (two)

The contradictions of fatness

chapter 12|15 pages

Expanding menstrual normativity

Artistic interventions in the representation of menstruation

chapter 13|20 pages

Clitoral matter

On the politics of sexual pleasures in Western European cultures

chapter 14|13 pages

Crip is the new queer?

A feminist analysis of Spanish and activist representations of disability and sexuality

chapter 15|12 pages

Who is ‘Drunk Me'?

Women's embodiment of drunkenness as a relation to the self

part 3|80 pages

Making

chapter 16|13 pages

Male violence and feminine spaces

Bringing men into the picture in campaigns that challenge men's violence against women and children

chapter 18|11 pages

The tattooed feminine body

Considerations for sexuality and British culture

chapter 19|12 pages

Cutting up control

Dismembering heteronormativity in Dodie Bellamy's feminist experimental poetry

chapter 20|10 pages

Looking back to Pınar Kür's fiction

Reading the female body as a site of resistance in Turkish literature

chapter 21|13 pages

The ace art of failure

Asexuality and BoJack Horseman

chapter 22|10 pages

Taking a walk on the queer side

Speculative comics (de)constructing queer identity

part 4|85 pages

Doing

chapter 23|9 pages

Learning consent through Cuddle Parties

Developing prefigurative scripts for new forms of consent-driven intimacy

chapter 24|11 pages

Waterboard me real good

Torture, consent, and trust in BDSM

chapter 25|11 pages

Coming of age

The alluring development of sex toys

chapter 26|13 pages

The politics of PrEP

Stigma, trust, and solidarity

chapter 27|13 pages

Sex work is (also) a male thing

The long journey towards legitimisation

chapter 28|16 pages

Queer ecologies of love

Ecosexuality and the politics of nonhuman desire

chapter 29|10 pages

Sexualities in prison

Rules and behaviours

part 5|95 pages

Resisting

chapter 30|10 pages

Love what you do (and it'll become increasingly difficult to agitate for workplace rights)

Sex, work, and rejecting the empowerment discourse

chapter 31|11 pages

My body, my rights

Sex work, feminism, and syndicalism in Argentina

chapter 33|11 pages

FtM crossdressing in contemporary Japan

The dansō phenomenon as caught between social constraint and the wish for self-expression

chapter 34|11 pages

Resisting and healing

Embodied feminist research as a sexual violence survivor

chapter 35|11 pages

Sexuality and self-tracking apps

Reshaping gender relations and sexual and reproductive practices

chapter 36|14 pages

On Faggots and Faggoting

Trash-talk and reclaiming the abject through art practice

chapter 37|14 pages

(Un)doing relationships

Boundary drawing and queer(ing) ways of relating