Mundane Heterosexualities

• Utgivningsdatum: 2007-10-31
• Mått: 140 x 216 x 17 mm
• Vikt: 376 g
• Format: Inbunden
• Språk: Engelska
• Antal sidor: 206
• Upplaga: 2007
• Förlag: Palgrave USA
• ISBN: 9781403997456

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JENNY HOCKEY trained as a social anthropologist and is Professor of Sociology at Sheffield University, UK. Her published work on gender includes articles in Sociological Research Online; The Sociological Review; Gender Place and Culture; Gender, Work and Organisation. She is currently engaged in ESRC-funded research on masculinities in transition. ANGELA MEAH is Research Fellow in the School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work at the University of Manchester, UK. Angela's current work, engaging inclusive methodologies in the development of sex and relationships education for le

'This ground-breaking book answers recent calls for more attention to be paid to everyday heterosexuality. Drawing on interviews with three generations of families the authors illuminate the processes whereby heterosexuality is both reproduced and changed intra-generationally and inter-generationally and show how heterosexuality orders far more than merely our sexual lives. In so doing they cast new light on what is still too often treated as an 'unmarked' category.' - Professor Stevi Jackson, University of York, UK 'This is a fascinating book, which offers page after page of intriguing revelations. Highly relevant to social work's understanding of families, this book would also be invaluable to researchers and research students as an inspirational and yet 'easy-to-read' example of rigorous theorising and exemplary methodology...I have been recommending this text to friends and colleagues for some time...' - British Journal of Social Work '...opens up a path for further research on the doing (and interweaving) of heterosexualities, gender and sexualities' - Sociologica

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