Sexualizing the Social: Power and the Organization of Sexuality

Adkins, Lisa; Merchant, Vicki

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 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.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 1996-03-24

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9780333650004

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-24549-9

Dimensions: 216.0cm x140.0cm

Pages: 228.0