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Gender, sexuality, and intimacy : a contexts reader / edited by Jodi O'Brien and Arlene Stein

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publisher: Los Angeles : SAGE, [2018]Description: xi, 347 pages; illustrations ; 26 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781506352312 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HQ21 G28 2018
Online resources:
Contents:
SECTION I. GENDER -- Introduction: Where Is Gender? -- Focus Point: Learning to Parent Transgender Children -- Locating Gender -- Scripting Gender: Media and Culture -- Scripting Gender: Sport -- Violence and Transgression -- Gendered Institutions -- SECTION II. SEXUALITY -- Introduction: Navigating Sexuality -- Focus Point: Slut-Shaming Romance Writers -- Navigating Sexuality -- Sexual Knowledge -- Mapping Sexual Commerce and Politics -- SECTION III. INTIMACY -- Introduction: Mapping Intimacy -- Focus Point: An Unexpected Box of Love Research -- Locating Intimacy -- Marriage -- Reproduction -- Family Portraits.
Summary: This new anthology from SAGE brings together over 90 recent readings on gender, sexuality, and intimate relationships from Contexts, the award-winning magazine published by the American Sociological Association. Each contributor is a contemporary sociologist writing in the clear, concise, and jargon-free style that has made Contexts the “public face” of sociology. Jodi O’Brien and Arlene Stein, former Contexts Editors, have chosen pieces that are timely, thought-provoking, and especially suitable for classroom use; written introductions that frame each of the books three main sections; and provided questions for discussion.
List(s) this item appears in: Print Books 2021 | Research References
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Books Books Ladislao N. Diwa Memorial Library Reserve Section Non-fiction RUS HQ21 G28 2018 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Room use only 76591 00076363

SECTION I. GENDER -- Introduction: Where Is Gender? -- Focus Point: Learning to Parent Transgender Children -- Locating Gender -- Scripting Gender: Media and Culture -- Scripting Gender: Sport -- Violence and Transgression -- Gendered Institutions -- SECTION II. SEXUALITY -- Introduction: Navigating Sexuality -- Focus Point: Slut-Shaming Romance Writers -- Navigating Sexuality -- Sexual Knowledge -- Mapping Sexual Commerce and Politics -- SECTION III. INTIMACY -- Introduction: Mapping Intimacy -- Focus Point: An Unexpected Box of Love Research -- Locating Intimacy -- Marriage -- Reproduction -- Family Portraits.

This new anthology from SAGE brings together over 90 recent readings on gender, sexuality, and intimate relationships from Contexts, the award-winning magazine published by the American Sociological Association. Each contributor is a contemporary sociologist writing in the clear, concise, and jargon-free style that has made Contexts the “public face” of sociology. Jodi O’Brien and Arlene Stein, former Contexts Editors, have chosen pieces that are timely, thought-provoking, and especially suitable for classroom use; written introductions that frame each of the books three main sections; and provided questions for discussion.

Fund 164 F&J de Jesus, Inc. Purchased August 13, 2018 76591 NEJ PHP 5,272.00 2018-06-609 2018-1-0319

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