Sexualities and Popular Culture

The author presents a short history of popular culture with definitions and examples that illustrate the evolving portrayal of human sexuality. Examples are taken from sources such as books, film, magazines and television, historic texts, sport and everyday popular practices to explain how pervasively popular culture communicates sexuality to us and through us.

List of contents

Popular Culture
Communication and Media
Popular Culture Studies
Sex, Gender and Sexual Orientation
Over the Edge
Taboos and Sexualized, Transgressive Interpretive Communities
Prehistoric and Historic Texts from around the World
Historic Texts of Beauty
The Problematics of Art, Erotica and Pornography
The Horror of Sex
Sexual Humors and the Flirtatious Alchemy of Gaiety and Gravity
After the Beat
Popular Music
Gesture, Body Image and the Fashion of Sex Toys

Summary

Sexualities and Popular Culture is a fascinating exploration into the study of popular culture and its influence on how we perceive the endless varieties of the sexualized human presentation of self in everyday life.

Product details

• Authors: Carl B. Holmberg, Carl Bryan Holmberg
• Publisher: Sage Publications
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.04.1998
• EAN: 9780761903512
• ISBN: 978-0-7619-0351-2
• No. of pages: 320
• Weight: 510 g
• Series: Foundations of Popular Culture; Feminist Perspective on Communication; Feminist Perspective on Communication; Feminist Perspective on Commun
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Sexualität, Media Studies, Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, HEALTH & FITNESS / Sexuality, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, Psychology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SELF-HELP / Sexual Instruction, PSYCHOLOGY / Human Sexuality, Gender studies, gender groups, Sex & sexuality, sex manuals, Psychology: sexual behaviour, Sex and sexuality: advice and issues