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Generations of social thinkers have assumed that access to legitimate paid employment and a decline in the 'double standard' would eliminate the reasons behind women's participation in prostitution. Yet in both the developing world and in postindustrial cities of the West, sexual commerce has continued to flourish, diversifying along technological, spatial, and social lines. In this deeply engaging and theoretically provocative study, Elizabeth Bernstein examines the social features that undergird the expansion and diversification of commercialized sex, demonstrating the ways that postindustri

In this lively and engaging work, Carolyn Lewis explores how medical practitioners, especially family physicians, situated themselves as the guardians of Americans' sexual well-being during the early years of the Cold War. She argues that many doctors believed that a satisfying sexual relationship with very specific attributes and boundaries was the foundation of a successful marriage, a fundamental source of happiness in the American family, and a crucial building block of a secure nation. Drawing on hundreds of articles and editorials in medical journals as well as other popular and professi

Open the door to better sex and a stronger relationshipWith this hands-on approach to arousal, couples will learn how to communicate with each other about their sexual desires, making sex a positive and vital part of every relationship. Showing how trust, open communication, a sense of humor, and basic anatomical knowledge can deepen pleasure, this stimulating manual shows couples simple skills to excite bedroom satisfaction. Humorous stories and anecdotes take the covers off other people's intimate encounters and offer perspective on what is normal for the average healthy adult. While preserv

1. The sexual landscape of schooling -- 2. Researching the sexual cultures of school -- 3. Picturing masculinities, sexualities and schooling -- 4. Picturing femininities, sexualities and schooling -- 5. Tau(gh)t bodies : student sexual embodiment and schooling -- 6. Schooling heteronormative cultures -- 7. Schooling sexual spaces -- 8. A new ontology of sexualities at school -- 9. An open-ending : the sexuality education assemblage.

Introduction: no turning back -- I. African Americans and the new racism -- Why black sexual politics? -- The past is ever present: recognizing the new racism -- Prisons for our bodies, closets for our minds: racism, heterosexism, and black sexuality -- II. Rethinking black gender ideology -- Get your freak on: sex, babies, and images of black femininity -- Booty call: sex, violence, and images of black masculinity -- Very necessary: redefining black gender ideology -- III. Toward a progressive black sexual politics -- Assume the position: the changing contours of sexual violence -- No storybook romance: how race and gender matter -- Why we can't wait: black sexual politics and the challenge of HIV/AIDS -- Afterword: the power of a free mind

This pioneering collection of ten ethnographically rich essays signals the emergence of a new paradigm of social analysis committed to understanding and analyzing social oppression in the context of sexuality and gender. The contributors, an interdisciplinary group of social scientists representing anthropology, sociology, public health, and psychology, illuminate the role of sexuality in producing and reproducing inequality, difference, and structural violence among a range of populations in various geographic, historical, and cultural arenas. In particular, the essays consider racial minorities including Hispanics, Koreans, and African Americans; discuss disabled people; examine issues including substance abuse, sexual coercion, and HIV/AIDS; and delve into other topics including religion and politics. Rather than emphasizing sexuality as an individual trait, the essays view it as a social phenomenon, focusing in particular on cultural meaning and real-world processes of inequality such as racism and homophobia

Presenting some of the latest research in queer theory, this book draws together diverse perspectives to shed light on possible 'queer futures' when different affective, temporal, and local contexts are brought into play. As such, it will appeal to scholars of cultural, political, literary, and social theory, as well as those with interests in gender and sexuality, activism, and queer theory.

Copyright -- Contents -- Tables And Boxes -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: Rewriting The Rules? -- Theoretical Perspectives And Conceptual Framework -- Why Young People? -- Why Prevention? -- Note On Terminology -- Structure Of The Book -- Notes -- 2 Generation Y: Problematic Representations Of Youth And Sex -- Generation Y: Youth At Risk? -- The Challenges Facing Generation Y -- The Problem Of Youth Sex -- Responding To Youth Sex -- Rape Myths And The Continuum Of Sexual Violence -- Pressured And Unwanted Sex: Implications For Sexual Health And Autonomy -- Concluding Comments -- Suggested Reading -- Notes -- 3 Sex: The 'New' Rules Of Engagement -- Love, Sex And The Unwritten Rules -- Gender And The Rules -- Challenging The Rules? -- Concluding Comments -- Suggested Reading -- Notes -- 4 Power: Framing Sexual Violence In Young People's Everyday Encounters -- Pressure, Coercion And Force -- Theorising The Rules -- Gender, Power And Sexual Violence -- Symbolic Violence And The Rules -- Post-Feminism And The New 'Politics Of Choice' -- Concluding Comments -- Suggested Reading -- Notes -- 5 Consent: Negotiating Consensual Sex -- Communicative Models Of Consent -- From Law To Everyday Practice -- Not Talking About Sex: Consent As An Embodied Practice -- Bourdieu And The Limits Of Law Reform -- Concluding Comments -- Suggested Reading -- Notes -- 6 Technology: Unauthorised Sexual Images And Sexual Violence -- Icts, Gender And Sexual Violence -- Unauthorised Sexual Images, Consent And The Law -- Unauthorised Images And Sexual Violence Prevention -- Concluding Comments -- Suggested Reading -- Notes -- 7 Education: Sex, Power And Consent In Schools -- Social Reproduction Of Gender In Education -- What Do Young People Want From School Sexuality Education? -- Beyond Sexuality Education: School Policies And Culture -- Educating To Prevent Sexual Pressure And Coercion -- Concluding Comments -- Suggested Reading -- Notes -- 8 Prevention: Policy, Programs And Practical Strategies -- Classic Crime Prevention Frameworks And Sexual Violence -- Public Health Prevention Frameworks -- Framing Sexual Violence Prevention -- Promising Practice In Sexual Violence Prevention -- School-Based Primary Prevention Through Education -- Community Primary Prevention Through Education -- Youth Participatory And Action Research Models -- Social Marketing Campaigns -- Working With Families To Prevent Sexual Violence -- Evaluating Sexual Violence Prevention -- Concluding Comments -- Suggested Reading -- Notes -- 9 Conclusion: Re-Writing The Rules And Preventing Sexual Violence -- Appendix: The Young People & Relationships Project (Yprp) -- Purpose And Research Questions -- Procedure And Participants -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

The sexualization of girls has captured the attention of the media, advocacy groups and politicians in recent years. This prolific discourse sets alarm bells ringing: sexualization is said to lead to depression, promiscuity and compassion deficit disorder, and rob young girls of their childhood. However, measuring such claims against a wide range of data sources reveals a far more complicated picture. Becoming Sexual begins with a simple question: why does this discourse feel so natural? Analyzing potent cultural and historical assumptions, and subjecting them to measured investigation, R. Danielle Egan illuminates the implications of dominant thinking on sexualization. The sexualized girl functions as a metaphor for cultural decay and as a common enemy through which adult rage, discontent and anxiety regarding class, gender, sexuality, race and the future can be expressed. Egan argues that, ultimately, the popular literature on sexualization is more reflective of adult disquiet than it is about the lives and practices of girls. Becoming Sexual will be a welcome intervention into these fraught polemics for anyone interested in engaging with a high-profile contemporary debate, and will be particularly useful for students of sociology, cultural studies, childhood studies, gender studies and media studies.

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Through country case studies arid regional analyses this series will contribute to a deeper understanding of development issues in Latin America. Shifting political environments, increasing economic interdependence, and the difficulties with regard to debt, foreign investment, and trade policy demand novel conceptualizations of development strategi

"Popular representations of third-world sex workers as sex slaves and vectors of HIV have spawned abolitionist legal reforms that are harmful and ineffective, and public health initiatives that provide only marginal protection of sex workers' rights. In this book, Prabha Kotiswaran asks how we might understand sex workers' demands that they be treated as workers. She contemplates questions of redistribution through law within the sex industry by examining the political economies and legal ethnographies of two archetypical urban sex markets in India. Kotiswaran conducted in-depth fieldwork among sex workers in Sonagachi, Kolkata's largest red-light area, and Tirupati, a temple town in southern India. Providing new insights into the lives of these women--many of whom are demanding the respect and legal protection that other workers get--Kotiswaran builds a persuasive theoretical case for recognizing these women's sexual labor. Moving beyond standard feminist discourse on prostitution, she draws on a critical genealogy of materialist feminism for its sophisticated vocabulary of female reproductive and sexual labor, and uses a legal realist approach to show why criminalization cannot succeed amid the informal social networks and economic structures of sex markets. Based on this, Kotiswaran assesses the law's redistributive potential by analyzing the possible economic consequences of partial decriminalization, complete decriminalization, and legalization. She concludes with a theory of sex work from a postcolonial materialist feminist perspective."--Provided by publisher

"Lou Andreas-Salomé may seem to be a figure remote from us, one belonging to a pre-1914 Europe, but in many ways, she is our contemporary. She traveled in a highly romantic world as socialite, sociologist, and author. She was part of Georg Simmel's salon, the most exclusive in Berlin, frequented by elusive poet Stefan Georg, dramatist Paul Ernst, social theorist and polymath Max Weber, and Georg Lukács, among others. Salomé's unique contribution to the erotic was that she argued sexual difference ran deeper than economics, and equality--the politics of Marx and the ideals of the French Revolution. For Salomé, to think about women and their erotic nature, you must start with their biological and psychological difference, not their economic situation. Salomé was an outstanding theorist. Her books on Nietzsche and on Rilke are major studies. The field of psychoanalysis would not have developed in the way it did without Lou Andreas-Salomé. We cannot understand Freud's "rationalism" or his anti-religious sensibility without Salomé's writings. This new English translation is an essential text of psychoanalysis, one that shaped the very conception of the field."--Publisher's website.