Sexuality

Sexuality / Jeffrey Weeks.

This new edition of 'Sexuality' features new material on AIDS, queer theory and the influence of postcolonial theory. This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the sociology of sexuality and a discussion of its cultural and socio-historical construction, as well as of issues of st...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Weeks, Jeffrey, 1945-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, 2010.
Edition:3rd ed.
Series:Key ideas.
Subjects:
Sex.
Sex customs.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Languages of Sex
  • 2. Invention of Sexuality
  • Brief History of the History of Sexuality
  • 'Social Construction' of Sexuality
  • Organization of Sexuality
  • Importance of Sexuality
  • Sexuality and Power
  • 3. Meanings of Sexual Difference
  • Biological Imperative
  • Sexuality and Social Relations
  • Sexuality and the Unconscious
  • Consequences of Difference
  • 4. Challenge of Diversity
  • Language of Perversity
  • Discourse of Diversity
  • Deconstructing the Categories
  • Making Choices
  • 5. Sexuality, Intimacy and Politics
  • Sexuality: On the Front Line of Politics
  • Breakdown of Tradition
  • Living with Uncertainty: HIV/AIDS
  • Regulating Sexuality
  • Sexual and Intimate Citizenship
  • Globalization and Human Sexual Rights
  • 6. Private Pleasures and Public Policies
  • Limits of Science
  • Ethical Dilemma
  • Towards Sexual Democracy
  • Human Gesture.

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