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Sexualities in context : a social perspective
- Title
- Sexualities in context : a social perspective / Rebecca F. Plante.
- Author
- Plante, Rebecca F.
- Publication
- New York : Westview Press, ©2006.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | HQ21 .P554 2006 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xix, 317 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- "Sexualities in Context presents focuses overviews and explorations of some of the most timely issues in the social construction of sex. This brief text is suitable for courses with coverage of gender and sexuality in sociology, psychology, women's and gender studies, and human development. The only book of its kind to address sexualities from a social perspective, Rebecca Plante's analysis of the context of sexuality, sexual behaviors, and identities in both intelligent and readable. With contemporary topics such as 'hooking up, ' sexual fantasies and bisexualities, along with examples of how to apply critical thinking, students are empowered to think outside their comfort zones and encourages to explore the topic of sex in a new context. Employing useful pedagogical features like end-of-chapter questions and suggested projects, this is the ideal text to help students see that sex is not only personal but social and political as well."--Jacket.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-317) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction -- Why sex matters : a brief history of sex/uality -- Studying the sexual : classifying and theorizing -- Boys, girls, men, and women : variables of experience -- Birds do it, bees do it : learning about "it" -- Finding a playboy under a rock in the woods : sex in the mind -- Hooking it up : sex in the bedroom -- LGBTQQPA(H), BDSM : the alphabet soup of sexualities -- Bunnies, bytes, and beaches : representations of sex -- Screwing with sex : some politics of sexualities.
- ISBN
- 9780813342931
- 0813342937
- LCCN
- 2005033651
- OCLC
- ocm62324953
- 62324953
- SCSB-1417313
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library