ABSTRACT

Introducing the New Sexuality Studies is an innovative, reader-friendly anthology of original essays and interviews that introduces the field of sexuality studies to undergraduate students. Examining the social, cultural, and historical dimensions of sexualities, this anthology is designed to serve as a comprehensive textbook for sexualities and gender-related courses at the undergraduate level.

The book’s contributors include both well-established scholars, including Patricia Hill Collins, Jeffrey Weeks, Deborah L. Tolman, and C.J. Pascoe, as well as emerging voices in sexuality studies. This collection will provide students of sociology, gender, and sexuality with a challenging and broad introduction to the social study of sexuality that they will find accessible and engaging.

part |55 pages

Laying the foundations

chapter |12 pages

Theoretical perspectives

chapter |10 pages

Transforming the sex/gender/sexuality system

The construction of trans categories in the United States

chapter |5 pages

Surveying sex

part |56 pages

Sexual bodies and behaviors

chapter |5 pages

Polishing the pearl

Discoveries of the clitoris

chapter |7 pages

Viagra and the coital imperative

chapter |6 pages

Sex and the senior woman

chapter |8 pages

Orgasm

chapter |8 pages

Anal sex

Phallic and other meanings

part |66 pages

Gender and sexuality

chapter |9 pages

Unruly bodies

Intersex variations of sex development

chapter |12 pages

From transgender to trans*

The ongoing struggle for the inclusion, acceptance and celebration of identities beyond the binary

chapter |7 pages

Adolescent girls' sexuality

The more it changes, the more it stays the same

chapter |9 pages

“Guys are just homophobic”

Rethinking adolescent homophobia and heterosexuality

chapter |8 pages

Not “straight,” but still a “man”

Negotiating non-heterosexual masculinities in Beirut

chapter |10 pages

How not to talk about Muslim women

Patriarchy, Islam and the sexual regulation of Pakistani women

chapter |9 pages

Mis-conceptions about unintended pregnancy

Considering context in sexual and reproductive decision-making

part |81 pages

Sexual identities and sexual fluidity

chapter |3 pages

Sexual fluidity

chapter |12 pages

Learning to be queer

College women's sexual fluidity

chapter |8 pages

The bisexual menace revisited

Or, shaking up social categories is hard to do

chapter |10 pages

Beyond bi

Sexual fluidity, identity, and the post-bisexual revolution

chapter |4 pages

Shrinking lesbian culture

chapter |11 pages

Straight men and women

part |61 pages

Intimacies

chapter |9 pages

Romantic love

chapter |10 pages

Sexual capital and social inequality

The study of sexual fields

chapter |9 pages

Interracial romance

The logic of acceptance and domination

chapter |9 pages

Inventions of hetero-sex in later life

Beyond dysfunction and the coital imperative

part |67 pages

Sexual lifestyles

chapter |12 pages

Contesting the culture of monogamy

Consensual nonmonogamies and polyamory

chapter |9 pages

The time of the sadomasochist

Hunting with(in) the “tribus”

chapter |10 pages

Wikisexuality

A new category of sexuality in the virtual world

chapter |9 pages

“The thorn in my side”

How ex-gays, ex-ex-gays, and celibate gays negotiate their religious and sexual identities

part |84 pages

Sexuality, media, and commerce

chapter |12 pages

“She isn't whoring herself out like a lot of other girls we see”

Heteronormative propriety and “authentic” American girlhood on Taylor Swift fan forums

chapter |8 pages

Sex workers

chapter |12 pages

Making politics explicit

Depicting authenticity in women-made pornography

chapter |7 pages

Pleasure for sale

Feminist sex stores

part |74 pages

Sexual regulation and inequality

chapter |8 pages

Sexuality, state, and nation

chapter |6 pages

One is not born a bride

How weddings regulate heterosexuality

chapter |7 pages

The marriage contract

chapter |8 pages

Lesbian and gay parents

Situated subjects

chapter |8 pages

Purity and pollution

Sex as a moral discourse

chapter |14 pages

Healing (disorderly) desire

Medical-therapeutic regulation of sexuality1

chapter |5 pages

Sex and power

part |63 pages

Sexual politics

part |69 pages

Global and transnational sexualities

chapter |11 pages

Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Bill

Reflections from a transnational frame

chapter |11 pages

Foreign-f females

Debating women's transnational sexualities in China

chapter |6 pages

Condoms in the global economy

chapter |9 pages

Sexual tourism

chapter |9 pages

Migrant sex work and trafficking

Sorting them out