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"Sexuality is the fifth revised and up-dated edition of the classic text for understanding human sexuality. This new edition brings the arguments and evidence fully up to date, and explores their implication for many topical controversies, around LGBTQ+ rights, the trans experience and gender fluidity, same-sex marriage, sexual autonomy and consent, and the meanings of sexual choice. Since it was first published in the 1980s, Sexuality has been at the cutting edge of the study of the social and historical meanings of sexuality. Blending deep empirical knowledge with theoretical sophistication and an acute sensitivity to the politics of sexuality, the book offers an acutely informed framework for understanding the complexities of sexual life. A key insight of the book is that the ways we think and speak about sexuality make a major contribution to the ways we live it. Sexuality may be rooted in biological possibilities, but it is shaped and experienced through languages and meanings which are inevitably historical and social in nature. The book explores with clarity and precision the invention and re-invention of sexual meanings, the question of what constitutes a true sex and the biological and social roots of sexual difference, the challenges of diversity, the re-making of sexuality as a highly divisive political subject, and the implications of the transformation of intimate life in the past few generations. These are seen in the context of profound changes that are re-fashioningmaking the world, especially globalization, and cyber-sex, and the rise of new forms of agency, including amongst women and LGBTQ+ peoples, which have fed into new claims for sexual human rights. This new edition of Sexuality will be an indispensable guide for students in the social sciences with an interest in the ever-changing worlds of sexuality"--

Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface to the fifth edition: writing Sexuality -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: languages of sex -- The significance of sexuality -- Words and meanings -- Sexualities in history and society -- 2 The invention of sexuality -- A brief history of the history of sexuality -- A subject in constant flux -- The 'social construction' of sexuality -- The organisation of sexuality -- Why sexuality is important -- Intersections -- 3 The meanings of sexual difference -- A true sex? -- The biological imperative -- Evolutionary diversions -- Biological modes of argument -- Sexuality and social relations -- Multiple realities and diverse social worlds -- Performing identities -- Sexuality and the unconscious -- Affect and the structuring of emotions -- Phobias and norms -- 4 The challenge of diversity -- The language of perversity -- Categorising sexualities -- The discourse of diversity -- Deconstructing the categories -- Making choices -- 5 Sexuality, intimacy and politics -- Sexuality on the front line -- Beyond tradition -- Living with uncertainty: HIV/AIDS -- Sexual and intimate citizenship -- Globalisation and human sexual rights -- 6 Private pleasures and public policies -- The limits of science -- The ethical dilemma -- Towards sexual democracy -- The human gesture -- Suggestions for further reading -- Index.

"Provides a lucid and comprehensive analysis of the transformations of British sexual life from 1800 to the present. These changes are firmly located in the wider context of British social, political and cultural life, from industrialization, urbanisation and the impact of Empire and colonisation, through the experience of economic disruption, World Wars, the establishment of the welfare state, changing patterns of gender and the emergence of new sexual identities. This book also charts the rise of both progressive and conservative social movements, including feminism, LGBT activism, and fundamentalist movements. It is a history where the past continues to live in the present, and where the present provides ever more complex, and often controversial patterns of sexual life, with sexual and gender issues at the heart of contemporary politics."--Provided by publisher

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Editor's foreword to the first edition -- Author's preface to the second edition -- Author's preface to the third edition -- Author's preface to fourth edition -- Acknowledgements to the first edition -- Acknowledgements to the second edition -- Acknowledgements to the third edition -- Acknowledgements to the fourth edition -- 1 Introduction: Languages of sex -- The significance of sexuality -- Words and meanings -- Sexualities in history and society -- 2 The invention of sexuality -- A brief history of the history of sexuality -- A subject in constant flux -- The 'social construction' of sexuality -- The organization of sexuality -- Why sexuality is important -- Intersections -- 3 The meanings of sexual difference -- A true sex? -- The biological imperative -- Evolutionary diversions -- Biological modes of argument -- Sexuality and social relations -- Multiple realities and diverse social worlds -- Performing identities -- Sexuality and the unconscious -- Affect, and the structuring of emotions -- Phobias and norms -- 4 The challenge of diversity -- The language of perversity -- The discourse of diversity -- Deconstructing the categories -- Making choices -- 5 Sexuality, intimacy and politics -- Sexuality on the front line -- Beyond tradition -- Living with uncertainty: HIV/AIDS -- Sexual and intimate citizenship -- Globalization and human sexual rights -- 6 Private pleasures and public policies -- The limits of science -- The ethical dilemma -- Towards sexual democracy -- The human gesture -- Suggestions for further reading -- Bibliography -- Index

Cover -- What is History? series -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- An Introduction -- What is a History of Sexuality a History of? -- Narratives -- Summary of the Book -- 1: Framing Sexual History -- Towards a Critical Sexual History -- Theoretical Detours -- Bodies -- Subjectivities and Affect -- Generations -- Times Present, Times Past, Times Future -- 2: The Invention of Sexual History -- The Magic of Words -- The Natural History of Sexuality -- The New History -- The Emergence of Social Constructionism -- 3: Querying and Queering Same-Sex History -- What is Homosexual History? -- Recovering the Lesbian and Gay Past and Historic Present -- Deconstructing and Reconstructing the Homosexual -- The Queer Challenge -- Beyond the Binary -- Making Connections -- 4: Gender, Sexuality and Power -- Dangers and Pleasures -- Sexual Violence and Sexual History -- Historicizing Female Sexuality -- Sexuality and the Theory Wars -- Rethinking Power -- Intersections -- On Manliness, Masculinity and Men -- 5: Mainstreaming Sexual History -- Into the Mainstream -- The Birth of Modern Sexuality? -- The Normalization of Heterosexuality -- The Great Transition -- AIDS and the Burdens of History -- Same-Sex Marriage and New Patterns of Intimacy -- 6: The Globalization of Sexual History -- Globalizing Sexual History -- Historians and Transnational Sexual History -- Patterns of Sexual History -- The Colonial Legacy and the Postcolonial Critique -- Sexual Regimes, Sexual Lives -- History and Human Sexual Rights -- 7: Memory, Community, Voice -- Unofficial Knowledges and Counter-History -- Memory and Community -- The Sexual Archive -- Voice -- Living Sexual History -- Suggestions for Further Reading -- 1 Framing Sexual History -- 2 The Invention of Sexual History -- 3 Querying and Queering Same-Sex History.

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