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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.

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

A roundtable discussion on sexuality took place at the Institute for Women's Studies in the Arab World, Lebanese American University (LAU). Among theparticipants were undergraduate and graduate students from various Lebanese universities. It was moderated by Dr. Marie Therese Kheir Badawi.

This portrait of sexuality in close relationships presents an extensive examination of current theory and research. Contributors pay particular attention to sexual attitudes, behaviour, satisfaction and coercion, and discuss sexual patterns in several types of sexual relationship: dating, cohabiting, marital and homosexual. They show how sexual aspects of these relationships are related to other characteristics such as love and communication. Drawing material from a variety of disciplines, including psychology, sociology, communication and family studies, the volume also explores sexual sta