Sexualities Past Reflections, Future Directions [Hardcover]

This collection examines recent theoretical and methodological debates, shifts in law and policy, and social and cultural changes around sexuality. It sets out new ways of conceptualizing and researching sexuality and explores persistently marginalised and re-traditionalised sexual practices, subjectivities and identities.List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction Reflexive Sexualities and Reflexive Sociology; B.Heaphy The Affect of Methods; J.Gabb To Pass Without Hindrance: Citizenship, Community, Diversity  or Death; Y.Taylor Telling Personal Stories in Academic Research Publications: Reflexivity, Intersubjectivity and Contextual Positionalities'; C.Klesse Born This Way: Congenital Heterosexuals and the Making of Heteroflexibility; J.Ward Straight Indiscretions or Queer Hypocrites: Public Negotiations of Identity and Sexual Behaviour; E.Shapiro The Romantic Imaginary: Compulsory Coupledom & Single Existence; E.Wilkinson Reimagining Families of Choice; R.Jones-Wild The Politics of Sexuality in Portugal: Confronting Tradition, Enacting Change; A.Santos Stirring it Up  Again: A Politics of Difference in the New Millennium; S.Hines Erotic Care: A Queer Feminist Bathhouse and the Power of Attentive Action; D.Cooper 'Shanghai Goes West': A Story of the Development of a Commercial Gay Scene in China; C.Bassi 'Sexing Up' Bodily Aesthetics: Notes towards Theorizing Trans Sexuality; Z.Davy & E.Steinbock Past, Present and Future: Exploring the Sexual Identities of People with Learning Difficulties; R.Garbutt Index

'In this exciting new collection of work, readers can learn about emergent sexual identities, waning norms, new modes of family, alternative forms of intimacy and a full range of transitivities that characterize our current organizations of eros, embodiment and desire. This is an exciting anthology: it brims with newness, it points to new directions and it departs decisively from the the known and the humdrum. Hines and Taylor have bl#˜