The languages of sexuality / Jeffrey Weeks.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weeks, Jeffrey, 1945-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex.

Heterosexuality.

Homosexuality.

Gender identity.

Sex--Religious aspects.

Physical Description:

xvi, 246 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2011.

Summary:

From "abjection"--as understood by Julia Kristeva's Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection and subsequent works in cultural criticism and sexual theory--to the erectile dysfunction drug "Viagra," Weeks (emeritus, sociology, London South Bank U., UK) offers approximately 90 short analytical essays on key terms and concepts involved in the understanding of human sexuality in such fields as gender studies, cultural studies, history, and sociology. Examples of other essay headings include "abortion," "AIDS," "bisexuality," "commodification," "cybersex," "desire," "essentialism," "families," "fetish," "globalization," "human sexual rights," "individualization," "intersectionality," "melancholia," "multiculturalism," "neoliberalism," and "perversion". Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

Abjection abortion agency aids

Barebacking bisexuality blackmail bodies

Childhood sexuality choice closet commodification

Community consent cosmopolitanism cybersex

Desire disability

Essentialism

Families fateful moments femininity feminism

Fetish friendship fundamentalism

Gay gay liberation gender globalization

Great transition

Habitus heterosexuality homophobia homosexuality

Human sexual rights hybridity

Individualization informalization intersectionality intimacy

Lesbian love

Marriage masculinity masturbation melancholia

Mixedness moral panic multiculturalism

Neoliberalism

Paedophilia perversion pleasure polyamory

Pornography prostitution psychoanalysis

Queer

Recognition reflexivity regulation relationality

Religion reproductive technologies risk

Sado-masochism safer sex same-sex marriage secularization

Sex addiction sex tourism sexology

Sexual citizenship sexual cultures sexual diversity sexual ethics

Sexual identity sexual orientation sexual scripts sexual stories

Sexual violence sexuality sexualization social capital

Social constructionism space subject

Toleration trafficking transgender

Viagra.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0415375738

9780415375726

041537572X

9780415375733

OCLC:

671491760

Publisher Number:

99943844048