Sexual fields : toward a sociology of collective sexual life / edited by Adam Isaiah Green.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Green, Adam Isaiah, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex--Social aspects.

Sex.

Social structure.

Sex customs.

Physical Description:

xviii, 217 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2014.

Summary:

In the late modern period, an unprecedented expansion of specialized erotic worlds has transformed the domain of intimate life. Organized by appetites and dispositions related to race, ethnicity, class, gender, and age, these erotic worlds are arenas of sexual exploration but, also, sites of stratification and dominion wherein actors vie for partners, social significance, and esteem. Those are what Adam Isaiah Green calls sexual fields, which represent a semblance of social life for which he offers a groundbreaking new framework. To build on the sexual fields framework, Green has gathered a distinguished group of scholars-who together make a bold case for sexual field theory as the first systematic theoretical innovation since queer theory in the sociology of sexuality. Expanding on the work of Bourdieu, Green and contributors develop this distinctively sociological approach for analyzing collective sexual life, where much of the sexual life of our society resides today. Coupling field-theory with the ethnographic and theoretical expertise of some of the most important scholars of sexual life at work today, Sexual Fields offers a game-changing approach that will revolutionize how sociologists analyze and make sense of contemporary sexual life for years to come. Book jacket.

Contents:

Toward a sociology of collective sexual life / Adam Isaiah Green

The sexual fields framework / Adam Isaiah Green

Sexual field, erotic habitus, and embodiment at a transgender bar / Martin S. Weinberg and Colin J. Williams

Sexual field theory : some theoretical questions and empirical complications / Peter Hennen

Rejecting the specifically sexual : locating the sexual field in the work of Pierre Bourdieu / Matt George

Circuits and the social organization of sexual fields / Barry D. Adam and Adam Isaiah Green

Sexless in Shanghai : gendered mobility strategies in a transnational sexual field / James Farrer and Sonja Dale

The crucial place of sexual judgment for field theoretic inquiries / John Levi Martin.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780226084855

022608485X

9780226084992

022608499X

OCLC:

851175473