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Sex Matters: The Sexuality And Society Reader

by: Stombler, Mindy; Baunach, Dawn M.; Burgess, Elisabeth O.; Donnelly, Denise; Simonds, Wendy

Sex Matters: The Sexuality And Society Reader

by: Stombler, Mindy; Baunach, Dawn M.; Burgess, Elisabeth O.; Donnelly, Denise; Simonds, Wendy

ISBN 13:
9780205485444
ISBN 10:
0205485448
Edition: 2nd
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 01/01/2007
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
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Sex Matters: The Sexuality and Society Reader, 2/E

Mindy  Stombler, Georgia State University
Dawn M. Baunach, Georgia State University
Elisabeth O. Burgess, Georgia State University
Denise  Donnelly, Georgia State University
Wendy  Simonds, Georgia State University

ISBN: 0205485448

This anthology of 62 readings from contemporary scholarly literature, trade books, popular media, as well as contributed articles, examines the many ways in which human sexuality is a socially constructed and regulated behavior, and how it is studied by social scientists.

New To This Edition

39 of the 62 readings are new.
Several chapters, including Sexual Practices, Sexual Violence, and Commercialized Sex, have been greatly expanded.
Each chapter now concludes with "Sextistics," a set of relevant research data.

Preface

xii

About the Contributors

xvii

Categorizing Sex

(55)

Spotlight on Research: An Interview with Paula C. Rodriguez Rust

(54)

Are We Having Sex Now or What?

(3)

Greta Christina

Would You Say You ``Had Sex'' If . . .?

(2)

Stephanie A. Sanders

June Machover Reinisch

Who Will Make Room for the Intersexed?

(16)

Kate Haas

Defining Genitals: Size Does Matter

(1)

Suzanne Kessler

Sex and the Trans Man

(4)

Jamison Green

Straight Dude Seeks Same: Mapping the Relationship between Sexual Identities, Practices, and Cultures

(7)

Jane Ward

Why Are We Gay?

(4)

Mubarak Dahir

Identity and Community: The Social Construction of Bisexuality in Women

(10)

Kassia Wosick-Correa

Nuances of Gay Identities Reflected in New Language

(3)

Rona Marech

Sextistics

(1)

Investigating Sexuality

(64)

Spotlight on Research: An Interview with Julia R. Heiman

(63)

Alfred Kinsey and the Kinsey Report

(7)

Vern L. Bullough

Survey of Sexual Behavior of Americans

(7)

Edward O. Laumann

John H. Gagnon

Robert T. Michael

Stuart Michaels

Doing It Differently: Women's and Men's Estimates of Their Number of Lifetime Sexual Partners

(2)

Mindy Stombler

Dawn M. Baunach

Racism and Research: The Case of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study

(9)

Allan M. Brandt

Sexuality and Social Theorizing

(12)

Denise Donnelly

Elisabeth O. Burgess

Wendy Simonds

(How) Does the Sexual Orientation of Parents Matter?

(11)

Judith Stacey

Timothy J. Biblarz

Funding Sex Research

108

(3)

Mindy Stombler

The Reluctant Polyamorist: Conducting Auto-Ethnographic Research in a Sexualized Setting

111

(8)

Elisabeth Sheff

Sextistics

119

(1)

Representing Sex

120

(63)

Spotlight on Research: An Interview with Joshua Gamson

120

(61)

``Where My Girls At?'' Negotiating Black Womanhood in Music Videos

124

(11)

Rana A. Emerson

My Meidel Is the Centerfold: Is Playboy's First Jewish Bunny a Role Model?

135

(3)

Deborah Kolben

Gay-for-Pay: Straight Men and the Making of Gay Pornography

138

(15)

Jeffrey Escoffier

What We Know about Pornography

153

(2)

Clive M. Davis

Naomi B. McCormick

An Overview of Pornography Studies

155

(2)

Neil M. Malamuth

Tamara Addison

Mary Koss

Little White Lies: Race, Dildos, and American Culture

157

(5)

Allison Kavanagh Alavi

Feeble Excuses: Public Representations of Gender, Sexuality, and Disability

162

(10)

Pamela Block

How the Internet Is Shaping Sex

172

(9)

Lewis Perdue

Sextistics

181

(2)

Learning about Sex

183

(62)

Spotlight on Research: An Interview with Ritch C. Savin-Williams

183

(60)

The Death of the Stork: Sex Education Books for Children

186

(10)

Wendy Simonds

What Do I Say to My Children?

196

(2)

Sol Gordon

Judith Gordon

Fear of Sex: Do the Media Make Them Do It?

198

(14)

Karen Sternheimer

Whorified Virgins: Gay Youth and Sex

212

(5)

Michael Amico

``We Don't Sleep around Like White Girls Do'': Family, Culture, and Gender in Filipina American Lives

217

(12)

Yen Le Espiritu

Going Too Far? Sex, Sin and Social Policy

229

(14)

Susan Rose

Sextistics

243

(2)

The Sexual Body

245

(79)

Spotlight on Research: An Interview with Leonore Tiefer

245

(78)

The Sorcerer's Apprentice: Why Can't We Stop Circumcising Boys?

249

(6)

Robert Darby

Female Genital Cutting

255

(3)

Elisabeth O. Burgess

Little Girls in Women's Bodies: Social Interaction and the Strategizing on Early Breast Development

258

(18)

Erika Summers-Effler

Fixing the Broken Male Machine

276

(18)

Meika Loe

Myth Information vs. the Fat Facts

294

(11)

Hanne Blank

Because He Liked to Look at It

305

(1)

Eve Ensler

Exotic Dancing and the Negotiation of Identity: The Multiple Uses of Body Technologies

306

(13)

Jennifer K. Wesely

The G-Spot and Other Mysteries

319

(4)

Elisabeth O. Burgess

Sextistics

323

(1)

Sexual Practices

324

(73)

Spotlight on Research: An Interview with Pepper Schwartz

324

(71)

Now for the Truth about Americans and Sex

326

(4)

Philip Elmer-DeWitt

Sexual Behavior and Health

330

(2)

William D. Mosher

Anjani Chandra

Jo Jones

Against Love: A Treatise on the Tyranny of Two

332

(4)

Laura Kipnis

Asexuality

336

(2)

Melissa Travis

Mexican Immigrant Women and Sexual Initiation

338

(9)

Gloria Gonzalez-Lopez

The Search for Sexual Intimacy for Men with Cerebral Palsy

347

(10)

Russell P. Shuttleworth

What's a Leg Got to Do with It?

357

(2)

Donna Walton

Tainted Love? Exploring the Contours of Interracial Romance and Resistance to Interracial Intimacy

359

(8)

Melinda Mills

Influences of Culture on Asian Americans' Sexuality

367

(8)

Sumie Okazaki

Sexual Desire in Later Life

375

(7)

John D. DeLamater

Morgan Sill

A Down Low Dirty Shame

382

(3)

Joshunda Sanders

10 Things You Should Know about the DL

385

(3)

Keith Boykin

Kink without Borders: Sexual ``Deviance'' across Cultures

388

(7)

Dinesh Bhugra

Sextistics

395

(2)

Procreative Issues

397

(41)

Spotlight on Research: An Interview with Dorothy E. Roberts

397

(39)

The Pleasures of Childbirth

400

(5)

Ina May Gaskin

Sexuality and Childbirth

405

(2)

Sheila Kitzinger

Punishing Drug Addicts Who Have Babies: Women of Color, Equality, and the Right of Privacy

407

(10)

Dorothy E. Roberts

Imaging Bodies, Imagining Relations: Narratives of Queer Women and ``Assisted Conception''

417

(7)

Jacquelyne Luce

Current Reproductive Technologies: Increased Access and Choice?

424

(7)

Linda J. Beckman

S. Marie Harvey

Induced Abortion in the United States

431

(3)

From Contraception to Abortion: A Moral Continuum

434

(2)

Wendy Simonds

Sextistics

436

(2)

Sexual Disease

438

(45)

Spotlight on Research: An Interview with Claire Sterk

438

(43)

Tracking the Hidden Epidemics

441

(3)

Preventing STIs

444

(2)

Heather Boonstra

Venereal Disease: Sin versus Science

446

(10)

Elizabeth Fee

Damaged Goods: Women Managing the Stigma of STDs

456

(9)

Adina Nack

Lesbian Women and Sexually Transmitted Infections

465

(2)

Katheleen Dolan

Phillip W. Davis

Showdown in Choctaw County

467

(5)

Jacob Levenson

Aging and HIV---The Changing Face of AIDS

472

(2)

David M. Latini

David W. Coon

HIV/AIDS and People with Disability

474

(2)

Nora Ellen Groce

The Global HIV/AIDS Pandemic, Structural Inequalities, and the Politics of International Health

476

(3)

Richard Parker

The Feminization of AIDS

479

(2)

Sextistics

481

(2)

Social Control of Sexuality

483

(76)

Spotlight on Research: An Interview with Keith Boykin

483

(74)

The Social Control of Adult---Child Sex

486

(14)

Jeffery S. Mullis

Dawn M. Baunach

The Sexual Politics of Black Womanhood

500

(15)

Patricia Hill Collins

Slut! Insult of Insults

515

(10)

Leora Tanenbaum

In the Closet

525

(14)

Steven Seidman

LGBTQ Politics in America: An Abbreviated History

539

(3)

Chet Meeks

The Pentagon's Gay Ban Is Not Based on Military Necessity

542

(8)

Aaron Belkin

Sexuality and Globalization

550

(7)

Dennis Altman

Sextistics

557

(2)

Sexual Violence

559

(38)

Spotlight on Research: An Interview with Diana E. H. Russell

559

(36)

``I Wasn't Raped, But . . .'' Revisiting Definitional Problems in Sexual Victimization

563

(10)

Nicola Gavey

BDSM or Intimate Violence: How Do You Tell the Difference?

573

(1)

Denise Donnelly

The Knockout Punch of Date Rape Drugs

574

(3)

Melissa Abramovitz

Linking Sexual Aggression and Fraternities

577

(1)

Mindy Stombler

Raped: A Male Survivor Breaks His Silence

578

(4)

Fred Pelka

Women Raping Men

582

(2)

Denise Donnelly

The Problem of Prison Rape

584

(3)

Daniel Brook

The Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003

587

(1)

Denise Donnelly

Rape and War: Fighting Men and Comfort Women

588

(7)

Joane Nagel

Sextistics

595

(2)

Commercial Sex

597

(39)

Spotlight on Research: An Interview with Jaqueline Boles

597

(37)

Naked Capitalists

600

(4)

Frank Rich

Sex Cells!

604

(2)

Matt Richtel

Michel Marriott

Sex and Tourism

606

(11)

Joane Nagel

Sexuality and Militarism

617

(2)

Cynthia Enloe

Human Rights, Sex Trafficking, and Prostitution

619

(7)

Alice Leuchtag

Naked Profits

626

(5)

Tad Friend

Forty Reasons Why Whores Are My Heroines

631

(1)

Annie Sprinkle

Strip Clubs and Their Regulars

631

(3)

Katherine Frank

Sextistics

634

(2)

Name Index

636

(6)

Subject Index

642

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