Sex matters : the sexuality and society reader
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Sex matters : the sexuality and society reader
Pearson A and B, c2007
2nd ed
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This anthology of almost 70 readings--from contemporary scholarly literature, trade books, popular media, as well as contributed articles-- examines the many ways in which human sexuality is socially constructed and regulated behavior, and how it is studied by social scientists.
Table of Contents
*articles and interviews new to this edition.
Every chapter ends with Sextistics.
Introduction
Chapter 1: Categorizing Sex
Spotlight on Research: An interview with Paula Rodriguez Rust*
1 Are We Having Sex Now or What? by Greta Christina
Boxed Insert: Would You Say You Had Sex If ... ? by Stephanie A. Sanders and June Machover Reinisch
2 Who Will Make Room for the Intersexed? by Kate Haas
Boxed Insert: Defining Genitals: Size Does Matter by Suzanne Kessler
3 Sex and the Trans Man by Jamison Green
4 STR8 Dude Seeks Same: Mapping the Relationship between Sexual Identities, Practices,
and Cultures by Jane Ward*
5 Why Are We Gay? by Mubarak Dahir*
6 Identity and Community: The Social Construction of Bisexuality in Women by Kassia Wosick-Correa*
Boxed Insert: Nuances of Gay Identities Reflected In New Language by Rona Marech
Chapter 2: Investigating Sexuality
Spotlight on Research: An interview with Julia Heiman*
7 Alfred Kinsey and the Kinsey Report by Vern L. Bullough
8 Survey of Sexual Behavior of Americans by Edward O. Laumann, John H. Gagnon, Robert T. Michael, and Stuart Michaels
Boxed Insert: Doing It Differently: Women's and Men's Estimates of Their Number of Lifetime Sexual Partners by Mindy Stombler and Dawn M. Baunach
9 Racism and Research: The Case of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study by Allan M. Brandt
10 Sexuality and Social Theorizing by Denise Donnelly, Elisabeth O. Burgess, and Wendy Simonds*
11 (How) Does the Sexual Orientation of Parents Matter? by Judith Stacey and Timothy J. Biblarz*
Boxed Insert: Funding Sex Research by Mindy Stombler
12 The Reluctant Polyamorist: Conducting Auto-Ethnographic Research in a Sexualized Setting by Elisabeth Sheff*
Chapter 3: Representing Sex
Spotlight on Research: An interview with Joshua Gamson*
13 "Where My Girls At?": Negotiating Black Womanhood in Music Videos by Rana A. Emerson*
14 My Meidel Is the Centerfold: Is Playboy's First Jewish Bunny a Role Model? by Deborah Kolben*
15 Gay-For-Pay: Straight Men and the Making of Gay Pornography by Jeffrey Escoffier*
Boxed Insert: What We Know about Pornography by Clive M. Davis and Naomi B. McCormick
Boxed Insert: An Overview of Pornography Studies by Neil M. Malamuth, Tamara Addison, and Mary Koss
16 Little White Lies:Race, Dildos, and American Culture by Allison Alavi
17 Feeble Excuses: Public Representations of Gender, Sexuality and Disability by Pamela Block*
18 How the Internet Is Shaping Sex by Lewis Perdue*
Chapter 4: Learning about Sex
Spotlight on Research: An interview with Ritch C. Savin-Williams
19 The Death of the Stork: Sex Education Books for Children by Wendy Simonds
Boxed Insert: What Do I Say to My Children? by Sol Gordon and Judith Gordon
20 Fear of Sex: Do the Media Make Them Do It? by Karen Sternheimer*
21 Whorified Virgins: Gay Youth and Sex by Michael Amico*
22 "We Don't Sleep Around Like White Girls Do": Family, Culture, and Gender in Filipina American Lives by Yen Le Espiritu
23 Going Too Far?: Sex, Sin and Social Policy by Susan Rose*
Chapter 5: The Sexual Body
Spotlight on Research: An interview with Leonore Tiefer*
24 The Sorcerer's Apprentice: Why Can't We Stop Circumcising Boys? by Robert Darby*
Boxed Insert: Female Genital Cutting by Elisabeth O. Burgess
25 Little Girls in Women's Bodies: Social Interaction and the Strategizing on Early Breast Development by Erika Summers-Effler*
26 Fixing the Broken Male Machine by Meika Loe*
27 Myth Information vs. the Fat Facts by Hanne Blank*
Boxed Insert: Because He Liked to Look at It
28 Exotic Dancing and the Negotiation of Identity: The Multiple Uses of Body Technologies by Jennier K. Wesely*
29 The G-Spot and Other Mysteries by Elisabeth O. Burgess
Chapter 6: Sexual Practices
Spotlight on Research: An interview with Pepper Schwartz
30 Now for the Truth about Americans and Sex by Philip Elmer-DeWitt
Boxed Insert: Sexual Behavior and Health by William D. Mosher, Anjani Chandra, and Jo Jones
31 Against Love: A Treatise on the Tyranny of Two by Laura Kipnis
Boxed Insert: Asexuality by Melissa Travis
32 Mexican Immigrant Women and Sexual Initiation by Gloria Gonzalez-Lopez*
33 The Search for Sexual Intimacy for Men with Cerebral Palsy by Russell P. Shuttleworth*
Boxed Insert: What's a Leg Got to Do with It? by Donna Walton
34 Tainted Love?: Exploring the Contours of Interracial Romance and Resistance to Interracial Intimacy by Melinda Mills*
35 Influences of Culture on Asian American's Sexuality by Sumie Okazaki*
36 Sexual Desire in Later Life by John D. Delamater and Morgan Sill*
37 A Down Low Dirty Shame: The New Assault on Black Male Sexuality by Joshunda Sanders*
Boxed Insert: 10 Things You Should Know about the DL by Keith Boykin
38 Kink Without Borders: Sexual "Deviance" Across Cultures by Dinesh Bhugra*
Chapter 7: Procreative Issues
Spotlight on Research: An interview with Dorothy E. Roberts
39 The Pleasures of Childbirth by Ina May Gaskin*
Boxed Insert: Sexuality and Childbirth by Sheila Kitzinger
40 Punishing Drug Addicts Who Have Babies: Women of Color, Equality, and the Right of Privacy by Dorothy E. Roberts*
41 Imagining Bodies, Imagining Relations: Narratives of Queer Women and "Assisted Conception" by Jacquelyne Luce*
42 Current Reproductive Technologies: Increased Access and Choice? by Linda J. Beckman and S. Marie Harvey*
Boxed Insert: Induced Abortion in the United States by the Alan Guttmacher Institute
Boxed Insert: From Contraception to Abortion: A Moral Continuum by Wendy Simonds
Chapter 8: Sexual Disease
Spotlight on Research: An interview with Claire Sterk
43 Tracking the Hidden Epidemics by The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Boxed Insert: Preventing STIs by Heather Boonstra
44 Venereal Disease: Sin versus Science by Elizabeth Fee
45 Damaged Goods: Women Managing the Stigma of STDs by Adina Nack
Boxed Insert: Lesbian Women and Sexually Transmitted Infections by Kathleen Dolan and Phillip W. Davis
46 Showdown in Choctaw County by Jacob Levenson*
Boxed Insert: Aging and HIV - The Changing Face of AIDS by David M. Latini and David W. Coon
Boxed Insert: HIV/AIDS and People With Disability by Nora Ellen Groce
47 The Global HIV/AIDS Pandemic, Structural Inequalities, and the Politics of International Health by Richard Parker*
Boxed Insert: The Feminization of AIDS by The New York Times Editorial Desk
Chapter 9: Social Control of Sexuality
Spotlight on Research: An interview with Keith Boykin
48 The Social Control of Adult-Child Sex by Jeffery S. Mullis and Dawn M. Baunach
49 The Sexual Politics of Black Womanhood by Patricia Hill Collins
50 Slut! Insult of Insults by Leora Tanenbaum
51 In the Closet by Steven Seidman*
Boxed Insert: LGBTQ Politics in America: An Abbreviated History by Chet Meeks
52 The Pentagon's Gay Ban Is Not Based on Military Necessity by Aaron Belkin
53 Sexuality and Globalization by Dennis Altman*
Chapter 10: Sexual Violence
Spotlight on Research: An interview with Diana E. H. Russell*
54 "I Wasn't Raped, but ... " Revisiting Definitional Problems in Sexual Victimization by Nicola Gavey
Boxed Insert: BDSM or Intimate Violence: How Do You Tell the Difference? by Denise Donnelly
55 The Knockout Punch of Date Rape Drugs by Melissa Abramovitz*
Boxed Insert: Linking Sexual Agression and Fraternities by Mindy Stombler
56 Raped: A Male Survivor Breaks His Silence by Fred Pelka
Boxed Insert: Women Raping Men by Denise Donnelly
57 The Problem of Prison Rape by Daniel Brook*
Boxed Insert: The Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003 by Denise Donnelly
58 Rape and War: Fighting Men and Comfort Women by Joane Nagel*
Chapter 11: Commercial Sex
Spotlight on Research: An interview with Jackie Boles
59 Naked Capitalists by Frank Rich
Boxed Insert: Sex Cells! by Matt Richtel and Michel Marriott
60 Sex and Tourism by Joane Nagel*
Boxed Insert: Sexuality and Militarism by Cynthia Enloe
61 Human Rights, Sex Trafficking, and Prostitution by Alice Leuchtag*
62 Naked Profits by Tad Friend*
Boxed Insert: Forty Reasons Why Whores Are My Heroines by Annie Sprinkle
Boxed Insert: Strip Clubs and Their Regulars by Katherine Frank
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