ABSTRACT

Breaking new ground, both substantively and stylistically, this book offers students, academics and researchers an accessible, engaging introduction and overview of this emerging field. Its central premise is to explore the social character of sexuality, the role of social differences such as race or nationality in creating sexual variation, and th

part |2 pages

Part 1: Sex as a social fact

chapter 1|11 pages

Theoretical perspectives

chapter 2|7 pages

The social construction of sexuality

chapter 3|6 pages

Surveying sex

part |2 pages

Part 2: Sexual meanings

chapter 4|7 pages

Sex and the family: The power of ideology

chapter 5|9 pages

Romantic love

chapter 6|6 pages

Sexual pleasure

chapter 8|5 pages

Sex and power

chapter 9|8 pages

Gay and straight rites of passage

chapter 10|7 pages

Coming out in Italy

part |2 pages

Part 3: Sexual bodies and behaviors

chapter 11|9 pages

Medicine and the making of a sexual body

chapter 12|6 pages

Sexualizing Asian male bodies

chapter 13|6 pages

Sex and the senior woman

chapter 15|7 pages

Orgasm

chapter 16|7 pages

Anal sex: Phallic and other meanings

chapter 17|6 pages

Sexual intercourse

chapter 18|6 pages

Viagra and the coital imperative

part |2 pages

Part 4: Sexual identities

part |2 pages

Part 5 Sexual institutions and sexual commerce

part |2 pages

Part 6: Sexual cultures

chapter 35|9 pages

The body, disability, and sexuality

chapter 37|9 pages

Gay men dancing: Circuit parties

chapter 39|6 pages

Sex and young Japanese heterosexual men

chapter 40|5 pages

Sex and rock ’n’ roll

chapter 41|4 pages

Secret sex and the down low brotherhood

chapter 42|6 pages

Wait . . . hip hop sexualities

part |2 pages

Part 7: Sexual regulation and inequality

chapter 44|8 pages

Sexuality, state, and nation

chapter 46|7 pages

The marriage contract

chapter 47|5 pages

Popular culture constructs sexuality

chapter 49|8 pages

Law and the regulation of the obscene

chapter 52|5 pages

Therapeutic institutions

part |2 pages

Part 8: Sexual politics