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Informationen zum Autor Stevi Jackson is Professor of Womens Studies at the University of York! UK. She is the author of Childhood and Sexuality (1982) and Heterosexuality in Question (1999). Sue Scott is Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Keele! UK. She has published widely in the area of young people and sexuality and edited a number of collections including Body Matters with DHJ Morgan (1993). Together Stevi Jackson and Sue Scott have edited Feminism and Sexuality (1996) and Gender: A Sociological Reader (2002) as well as numerous journal articles on intimacy and sexuality. Klappentext This book surveys and evaluates the sociological contribution to the study of sexuality. It not only maps major theoretical shifts and debates, but also offers a unique examination of the topic that emphasises the sociality of sexuality. In particular, it considers the institutional, biographical and interactional contexts of our sexual lives as well as the cultural significance and everyday practice of sexuality. The authors contest not only popular understandings of sexuality as natural, but also psychoanalytic explanations and forms of analysis that privilege the cultural construction of sexuality over its everyday social accomplishment. In particular, they challenge the 'specialness' of sexuality within contemporary culture, arguing that sexuality is better understood as a routine part of everyday social life. The book confronts the anxieties associated with sexuality in the late modern, western world and engages with wider debates on social transformations in late modernity. As such, it provides both an overview of the field of sexuality as well as setting an agenda. Theorizing Sexuality is key reading for students, researchers and academics interested in theories of sexuality, gender and intimacy and anyone concerned with the social conditions that inform our sexual identities. Zusammenfassung The book confronts the anxieties associated with sexuality in the late modern! western world and engages with wider debates on social transformations in late modernity. As such! it provides both an overview of the field of sexuality as well as setting a new agenda for debating the topic. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: The case for the sociality of sexuality Conceptualizing sexuality: From kinsey to queer and beyond Feminist engagements: politicizing the personal and engendering theory Modernity and its discontents Is heterosexuality still compulsory? Risk, governance and surveillance: the boundaries of childhood The sexual self in late modernity Embodied practices and sexual pleasure Concluding thoughts on ordinary sexuality ...
