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Sex, sensibility, and the gendered body
- Title
- Sex, sensibility, and the gendered body / edited by Janet Holland and Lisa Adkins.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- New York : St. Martin's Press, 1996.
- Description
- xi, 248 pages ; 23 cm
- Other contributors
- Holland, Janet. Adkins, Lisa, 1966- British Sociological Association. Conference (1994 : University of Central Lancashire)
- Uniform series
- Explorations in sociology ; 46
- Notes
- "Essays originally delivered as papers at the 1994 British Sociological Association (BSA) Annual Conference, on the theme of Sexualities in Social Context, held at the University of Central Lancashire, 28-31 March, 1994"--Page vii. Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
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- Gender, care and sensibility in family and kin relationships / Jennifer Mason
- The political economy of romance : popular culture, social divisions and social reconstruction in wartime / Patricia Allatt
- The 'single mothers' debate : a children's rights perspective / Sophie Laws
- Girls' own story : the search for a sexual identity in times of family change / Chris Mann
- Breast feeding and the social construction of heterosexuality, or 'what breasts are really for' / Pam Carter
- Women hearing men : the cervical smear test and the social construction of sexuality / Linda McKie
- Discourses on the menopause and female sexual identity / Gale Darke
- Contradictions in discourse : gender, sexuality and HIV/AIDS / Diane Richardson
- Gender and sexuality in the social construction of rape and consensual sex : a study of process and outcome in six recent rape trials / Anne Edwards
- Keeping them in their place : hetero/sexist harassment, gender and the enforcement of heterosexuality / Debbie Epstein
- Desperately seeking post-heterosexual woman / Carol Smart.
- Review
- "The study of sexuality is moving from the margins to centre stage in sociology, as the 1994 British Sociological Association annual conference on 'Sexualities in Social Context' demonstrated. Drawn from that conference, the papers in this volume contribute to the lively and significant debates which have developed on the relationship between the sexual and the social, and between gender and sexuality. The focus here is on women, although always in relation to men, and to the dominance of normative heterosexuality and gendered power relations. From different theoretical perspectives, and employing a range of analytical techniques on a fascinating variety of empirical data, the authors explore the themes of gendered identity, the construction of sexuality, embodiment and control. The social contexts in which these themes are elaborated in this stimulating collection include the family, the law, the education system, medical practice and discourse, and cultural representations and texts."--Jacket.
- Kinsey subjects
- Sex psychology. Gender role identification--Female. Changing role of women.
- ISBN
- 031216081X (cloth) 9780312160814 (cloth) 0312160828 (pbk.) 9780312160821 (pbk.)