Sexualities and Society

'Its broad, interdisciplinary approach to sexuality, its comparative and global perspective, and its use of selections that are empirical and historical, make this Reader very appealing for both students and teachers.' Professor Steven Seidman, University at Albany, New York 'Jeffrey Weeks and his colleagues provide a splendid, authoritative compendium of cutting edge research and debate addressing all the moral dilemmas of human sexuality in the new global arena. These essays capture the rich diversity of scholarship, and the continuing urgency of political engagement, in the perennially contested area of sexuality - essential reading for practitioners and scholars alike.' Lynne Segal, Professor of Psychology & Gender Studies, Birkbeck College

Jeffrey Weeks and Janet Holland are at South Bank University. Matthew Waites is at Sheffield University.

The Contributors. Preface and Acknowledgements. Copyright Acknowledgements. Publisher's Note. Introduction (Jeffrey Weeks, Janet Holland and Matthew Waites). Part I Social and Historical Approaches to Sexualities. . 1. Sex and the Gender Revolution (Randolph Trumbach). 2. The Postmodernization of Sex (William Simon). 3. Intimate Citizenship and the Culture of Sexual Story Telling (Ken Plummer). Part II The Gender of Sexuality. . 4. The Big Picture: Masculinites in Recent World History (R.W. Connell). 5. A Passion for 'Sameness'? Sexuality and Gender Accountabilty (Gillian A. Dunne). 6. Heterosexuality, Heteronormativity and Gender Hierarchy; Some Reflections on Recent Debates (Stevi Jackson). 7. When Bodies Come Together: Power, Control and Desire (Janet Holland, Caroline Ramazanoglu, Sue Sharpe and Rachel Thomson). 8. Only the Literal: the Contradictions of Anti-Pornography Feminism (Lynne Segal). 9. Anomalous Bodies:Transgenderings and Cultural Transformations (Mark Johnson). Part III Sexual Identities. . 10. Necessary Fictions: Sexual Identities and the Politics of Diversity (Jeffrey Weeks). 11. Becoming Lesbian: Identity Work and the Performanance of Sexuality (Arlene Stein). 12. 'I Haven't Seen That in the Kama Sutra': the Sexual Stories of Disabled People (Tom Shakespeare). 13 Postmodern Bisexuality (Merl Storr). 14. Zimbabwean Law and the Production of a White Man's Disease (Oliver Phillips). 15. Not Just (Any) Body Can be a Citizen: the Politics of Law, Sexuality and Postcoloniality in Trinidad and Tobago and the Bahamas (M Jacqui Alexander). Part IV Globalization, Power and Resistance. . 16. Globalization, Political Economy and HIV/AIDS (Dennis Altman). 17. The Land, the Blood and the Passion: the Hindu Far-Right (Chetan Bhatt). 18. Prostitution, Power and Freedom (Julia O'Connell Davidson). 19. Sex and the Open Market (Harriet Evans). 20. Negotiating Reproductive Rights (Rosalind Petchesky). Part V Sexual Values and Life Experiments. . 21. Foucault: Aesthetics as Ethics (Lois McNay). 22. Intimacy as Democracy (Anthony Giddens). 23. The Couple: Intimate and Equal (Lynn Jamieson). 24. The Disappearance of the Modern Homosexual (Henning Bech). Index.