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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
- London : Macmillan, 1996.
- Description
- xi, 248 p. ; 22 cm.
- Other contributors
- Holland, Janet. Adkins, Lisa, 1966-
- Series
- Explorations in sociology ; 46
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical reference and index. Paperbound.
- 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
- Breastfeeding 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 / Gail 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.
- Kinsey subjects
- Gender role identification--Female. Changing role of women. Sex psychology.
- ISBN
- 0333650018 (hbk.) 0333650026 (pbk.)