Sexualizing the Social Power and the Organization of Sexuality |
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| Editor:
| Adkins, Lisa
Merchant, Vicki |
| Series title: | Explorations in Sociology Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-349-24549-9 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 1996 |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $59.00 |
Book Description:
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Sociologists are increasingly aware that analyses of social life must include a consideration of how the social may be structured by the sexual. In turn, this insight is contributing to a shift in understandings of sociology. This volume - drawn from papers from the 1994 British Sociological Association Annual Conference on 'Sexualities in Social Context' - brings together a range of writers who are contributing to this exciting new agenda. Various aspects of social life - including...
More DescriptionSociologists are increasingly aware that analyses of social life must include a consideration of how the social may be structured by the sexual. In turn, this insight is contributing to a shift in understandings of sociology. This volume - drawn from papers from the 1994 British Sociological Association Annual Conference on 'Sexualities in Social Context' - brings together a range of writers who are contributing to this exciting new agenda. Various aspects of social life - including employment, family life, representations, politics, identities and the workings of the law - are considered, in terms of how sexuality shapes their organization and they shape sexuality. In so doing a series of ongoing and new controversies and debates are confronted, from the relationship of feminism to prostitution to the constitution of the self in late modernity.