Sexualizing the Social
Author | : Lisa Adkins |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 1996-06-12 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781349245499 |
ISBN-13 | : 1349245496 |
Rating | : 4/5 (99 Downloads) |
Download or read book Sexualizing the Social written by Lisa Adkins and published by Springer. This book was released on 1996-06-12 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.