Authors: Christine L. Williams (Editor), Arlene Stein
ISBN-13: 9780631222729, ISBN-10: 0631222723
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
Date Published: January 2002
Edition: 1st Edition
Christine L. Williams is Professor of Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Gender Differences at Work: Women and Men in Nontraditional Occupations (1989) and Still a Man's World: Men Who Do "Women's Work" (1995), and is the editor of Doing 'Women's Work': Men in Nontraditional Occupations (1993) and Feminist Views of the Social Sciences (2000). She has served as chair of the Sex and Gender section of the American Sociological Association.
Arlene Stein teaches sociology at Rutgers University. She is the author of Sex and Sensibility: Stories of a Lesbian Generation (1997) and The Stranger Next Door: The Story of a Small Community' Battle over Sex, Faith, and Civil Rights (2001), and is the editor of Sisters, Sexperts, Queers: Beyond the Lesbian Nation (1993). She has served as chair of the Sexualities section of the American Sociological Association.
The essays included here reflect differences in race, gender and class and demonstrate how different social groups experience different sets of social norms. Topics include gender and sex theory, identity, childhood and adolescent sexuality, the objectification of women, sexuality and religion, leisure and recreation, politics and social change and the possible future of sexual relationships.
List of Contributors | ||
Acknowledgments | ||
Introduction | 1 | |
Pt. I | Thinking About Sexuality | 3 |
1 | Higamous-Hogamous | 5 |
2 | Symbolic Interactionism and Sexual Conduct: An Emergent Perspective | 20 |
3 | Pleasure under Patriarchy | 33 |
4 | A Queer Encounter: Sociology and the Study of Sexuality | 44 |
Pt. II | Gender and Sexual Identities | 61 |
5 | The Naked Citadel | 63 |
6 | Subject Honor and Object Shame: The Construction of Male Homosexuality and Stigma in Nicaragua | 87 |
7 | Copycat | 100 |
8 | Sexuality and Gender in Certain Native American Tribes: The Case of Cross-Gender Females | 113 |
Pt. III | Sexuality in Childhood and Adolescence | 125 |
9 | Sexuality and Gender in Children's Daily Worlds | 127 |
10 | "I couldn't ever picture myself having sex ...": Gender Differences in Sex and Sexual Subjectivity | 142 |
11 | "The punk guys will really overpower what the punk girls have to say": The Boys' Turf | 167 |
12 | Tough Times: Susan Carter | 174 |
Pt. IV | Sexual Objectification | 191 |
13 | The Sexual Politics of Black Womanhood | 193 |
14 | The Meaning of Sex | 207 |
15 | Working for Men: At the Intersection of Power, Gender, and Sexuality | 221 |
16 | Boundary Lines: Labeling Sexual Harassment in Restaurants | 239 |
Pt. V | Sexuality and Religion | 257 |
17 | Breaking Walls, Raising Fences: Masculinity, Intimacy, and Accountability among the Promise Keepers | 259 |
18 | Sex-Segregated Living: Celebrating the Female | 272 |
19 | The Metropolitan Community Churches and the Gay Agenda: The Power of Pentecostalism and Essentialism | 282 |
20 | The Muslim Concept of Active Female Sexuality | 297 |
Pt. VI | Leisure and Recreation | 309 |
21 | Publicity Traps: Television Talk Shows and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Visibility | 311 |
22 | Girls, Media, and the Negotiation of Sexuality: A Study of Race, Class, and Gender in Adolescent Peer Groups | 332 |
23 | Becoming 100 Percent Straight | 349 |
24 | Fantasy Islands: Exploring the Demand for Sex Tourism | 355 |
Pt. VII | Sexual Politics and Social Change | 369 |
25 | Sex and Society | 371 |
26 | A Place Called Home: A Queer Political Economy: Mexican Immigrant Men's Family Experiences | 382 |
27 | Gay and Lesbian Families are Here; All Our Families Are Queer; Let's Get Used to It! | 395 |
28 | Social Control, Civil Liberties, and Women's Sexuality | 408 |
Pt. VIII | Future Directions | 425 |
29 | Beyond the Closet? The Changing Social Meaning of Homosexuality in the United States | 427 |
30 | Intimacy as Democracy | 446 |
31 | Intimacy Transformed? A Critical Look at the "Pure Relationship" | 456 |
32 | The Five Sexes: Why Male and Female Are Not Enough | 468 |
Index | 474 |