ABSTRACT

This book explores the rites of a sexual story-telling culture and examines the nature of these newly emerging narratives and the socio-historical conditions that have given rise to them.

part I|45 pages

Entering the story zone

chapter Chapter 1|15 pages

Prologue

The culture of sexual story telling

chapter Chapter 2|14 pages

An invitation to a sociology of stories

chapter Chapter 3|14 pages

Making sexual stories

part II|64 pages

Coming out everywhere: modernist stories of desire, danger and recovery

chapter Chapter 4|13 pages

Coming out, breaking the silence and recovering

Introducing some modernist tale

chapter Chapter 5|19 pages

Women's culture and rape stories

chapter Chapter 6|16 pages

The modernisation of gay and lesbian stories

chapter Chapter 7|14 pages

Recovery tales

part III|70 pages

Sexual stories at century's end

chapter Chapter 8|18 pages

The tale and its time

chapter Chapter 9|13 pages

The shifting sexual stories of late modernity

chapter Chapter 10|23 pages

Intimate citizenship

The politics of sexual story telling

chapter Chapter 11|14 pages

Epilogue

Beyond stories? The pragmatics of story telling