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Acknowledgements
Chapter One – Introduction
Andrew King, Ana Cristina Santos and Isabel Crowhurst
Part I – Critical Interjections
Chapter Two – Materialism, Micropolitics and the Sexuality-Assemblages of Young Men
Pam Alldred and Nick J. Fox
Chapter Three – Ordinary Sexuality
Brian Heaphy
Chapter Four – ‘Counting’ for Equality: Youth, Class and Sexual Citizenship
Elizabeth McDermott
Chapter Five – The Normative Account: Sexual Experiences and Constructions of Masculinity Among Young Moroccan Men in Europe
Vulca Fidolini
Chapter Six – Practice Theory and Interactionism: an Integrative Approach to the Sociology of Everyday Sexuality?
Stevi Jackson and Sue Scott
Part II – Critical Methodologies
Chapter Seven – Making Space at the (Queer) Academic Table?
Yvette Taylor
Chapter Eight - Challenges in Reflexive Research into Loneliness and Isolation in Older Lesbians
Jill Wilkens
Chapter Nine – Reading Texts and Their Silences: Sexuality and the Autobiographical Method
Roma Dey
Chapter Ten – Intimate Partner Violence in Lesbian Relationships: An Interactional-Structural Analysis
Alžběta Možíšová
Chapter Eleven – "Inside/Out": Researching Young Adults’ Sexuality in a(n) (Un)Familiar Space. A Reflexive Approach
Ana Cristina Marques
Part III – Critical Practices
Chapter Twelve - Uncomfortable Bargains? Networking between Local Authorities and LGBT Associations in the Context of Neoliberalism
Beatrice Gusmano
Chapter Thirteen - Transgender Offenders Within the Prison Estate: A Comparative Analysis of Penal Policy
Joanna Jamel
Chapter Fourteen - Conducting Sex Work Research in a Politically Contentious Climate: Lessons from Ireland
Paul Ryan and Susann Huschke
Chapter Fifteen - Medicalized Virilism Under Scrutiny: Expert Knowledge on Male Sexual Health in Italy
Raffaella Ferrero Camoletto and Chiara Bertone
Chapter Sixteen - Challenging the Use of Heteronormative Categories in Childlessness Studies
Gerardo Zamora
Summary
Sexualities Research brings together original contributions by emerging and world-leading scholars of sexuality. The authors seek to address how theoretical and methodological choices enable wider dissemination and social impact of sexualities research.