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Is our sexuality a product of our genes, or of society, culture, and politics? How have views of sexual norms changed over time? And how have feminism, religion, and HIV/AIDS affected our attitudes to sex? This Very Short Introduction examines these questions and many more, exploring what shapes our sexuality, and how our sexuality shapes us. - ;What shapes our sexuality? Is it a product of our genes, or of society, culture, and politics? How have concepts of sexuality and sexual norms changed over time? How have feminist theories, religion, and HIV/AIDS affected our attitudes to sex?. Focusing on the social, political, and psychological aspects of sexuality, this Very Short Introduction examines these questions and many more, exploring what shapes our sexuality, and how our attitudes to sex have in turn shaped the wider world. Revealing how our assumptions about what is 'normal' in sexuality have, in reality, varied widely across time and place, this book tackles the major topics and controversies that still confront us when issues of sex and sexuality are. discussed: from sex education, HIV\AIDS, and eugenics, to religious doctrine, gay rights, and feminism. -.

This article examines a specific area of the politics of sexuality, focusing on the eugenic measures that various liberal democracies applied from the 1920s to the 1960s. More precisely, the policy trajectories of measures such as eugenic sterilizations in Switzerland, Sweden, and the United Kingdom will serve as a basis for theorizing the role of the state in regulating and policing the reproductive sexuality, sexual practices, and sexual identities of its citizens. Exploring the links between sexuality, politics, and the state will lead me to argue that the notion of the state itself needs unpacking. I will suggest, firstly, that examples of concrete eugenic measures demonstrate that states have not always acted in coherent, homogeneous ways in this area. State intervention in this domain was at times non-systematic, or even contradictory. I will argue, secondly, that eugenic measures were developed both within, and outside of (or even against), the state. Paragovernmental actors such as psychiatric clinics or local authorities have often played key roles in the eugenic regulation of sexuality. Furthermore, key actors in the application of eugenic sterilizations, such as doctors' organizations, were in some cases politically opposed to policy-making in this area, since they considered state intervention as a threat to their own autonomy of action. The presence or absence of official state policies is therefore an insufficient indicator of the importance of eugenic practices in specific national contexts, I shall argue. In order to fully grasp the complexity of such political dynamics, it is crucial to take into account the ways in which state institutions and policy-making are structured by wider social relations of power around sexualities, as well as around other identity-markers such as gender, "race," social class or disabilities. Adapted from the source document.

Seeks to participate in the continuing discussion among various viewpoints, disciplines, & subdisciplines both within & outside political science by describing central arguments & methodological issues within feminist political theory on the state. In particular, the methodological significance of discourse theory for feminist political theory & for empirical approaches to gendered state action & policies is explored. Feminist discourse analysis represents the kind of productive interdisciplinarity encouraged by Berte Siim (2001), as well as challenging the universality of an excessively limited view of political science culture. References. K. Coddon

Die Schweizer Behörden liessen im 20. Jahrhundert Zehntausende von Kindern und Jugendlichen fremdplatzieren. In diesem Band werden die Auswirkungen dieser Entscheidungen auf den Lebensweg der Betroffenen aus unterschiedlicher Perspektive beleuchtet. Dabei werden auch die heutigen Praktiken von Fremdplatzierungen in den Blick genommen