New Sexual Agendas [Paperback]

New Sexual Agendas tackles the urgent practical and theoretical challenges in the area of gender and sexuality. Leading theorists, activists and clinicians, including Bob Connell, Adam Sinfield, Leonore Tiefer and Jeffrey Weeks, encourage a creative exchange of knowledge across different research and applied perspectives. This volume highlights the intensity of the feelings generated by the changes occurring in sexual and gender relations, while signalling the possibilities for new strategies encompassing diversity and choice.Preface - Notes on the Contributors - Reconsidering British fin de siecle sexology; L.Hall - Thinking Sex Historically; L.Bland & F.Mort - Psychoanalytic Challenges; S.Frosh - Sexual Values Revisited; J.Weeks - Sexual Revolutions; R.W.Connell - Feminist Sexual Politics and The Heterosexual Predicament; L.Segal - Conservative Agendas and Government Policy; M.Durham - Sexuality and Medicine; L.Tiefer - Preventing HIV/AIDS in Gay Men; G.Hart - The Limitations of Trust in Intimate Relationships; C.Willig - From a Man's Internal Family to New Political Forms; A.Samuels - Bridging the Gap Between Material and Discursive Analyses of Sexuality; J.Ussher - The Context of Women's Power(Lessness) in Heterosexual Interaction; I.Vanwesenbeeck - Gender Difference as Process and as Content; S.Prendergast - Queer Identities and the Ethnicity Model; A.Sinfield - Seeing the World from a Lesbian and Gay Standpoint; M.McIntosh - Resisting the 'New Homophobia'; A.M.Smith - Feminism vs Queer Theory; M.Merck - Sex Talk and Daily Life; J.Lewis - Index