ABSTRACT
Introducing the New Sexuality Studies: Original Essays is an innovative, reader-friendly collection of essays that introduces the field of sexuality studies to undergraduate students. Examining the social, cultural, and historical dimensions of sexuality, this collection is designed to serve as a comprehensive yet accessible textbook for sexuality courses at the undergraduate level. The fourth edition adds 51 new essays whilst retaining 33 of the most popular essays from previous editions.
It features perspectives that are intersectional, transnational, sex positive, and attentive to historically marginalized groups along multiple axes of inequality, including gender, race, class, ability, body size, religious identity, age, and, of course, sexuality. Essays explore how a wide variety of social institutions, including medicine, religion, the state, and education, shape sexual desires, behaviors, and identities. Sources of, and empirical research on, oppression are discussed, along with modes of resistance, activism, and policy change.
The fourth edition also adds new user-friendly features for students and instructors. Keywords are italicized and defined, and each chapter concludes with review questions to help students ascertain their comprehension of key points. There is also an online annotated table of contents to help readers identify key ideas and concepts at a glance for each chapter.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|89 pages
Laying the foundations
chapter 4|10 pages
Trans categories and the sex/gender/sexuality system
chapter 6|9 pages
The dos and don'ts of dating
chapter 8|7 pages
Method matters
part 2|79 pages
Bodies and behaviors
chapter 17|10 pages
Reconceiving unintended pregnancy
chapter 19|9 pages
“There's really no reason to settle”
part 3|99 pages
Relating and relationships
chapter 22|9 pages
Yes, no, maybe so?
chapter 27|11 pages
Gay racism
chapter 28|8 pages
Gender labor, racework, and trans pleasure
chapter 29|9 pages
“We were on a BREAK!”
part 4|93 pages
Sex, gender, and sexuality
chapter 33|8 pages
Adolescent girls' sexuality
chapter 34|10 pages
“There is no such thing as a slut”
part 5|82 pages
Social structures and institutions
chapter 47|9 pages
“I am God's creation”
chapter 49|10 pages
Sex education and its failures
part 6|81 pages
Navigating inequalities and oppressions
chapter 54|10 pages
“Heterosexual families do not have to explain themselves”
chapter 55|8 pages
Intersected lives
chapter 56|8 pages
“The thorn in my side”
part 7|80 pages
Sexual cultures, places, and scenes
chapter 62|11 pages
“We will always remember”
chapter 66|8 pages
Nurturing through normalizing, endangering through dramatizing
part 8|73 pages
Sexual labor and commerce
chapter 69|10 pages
Looks for sale
chapter 73|8 pages
Sex workers' rights activism in the United States
chapter 74|9 pages
Challenging the controlling images of vamps and victims
part 9|93 pages
Sexual politics, social movements, and empowerment