Thomas S. Weinberg & Staci D. Newmahr 
Selves, Symbols, and Sexualities [EPUB ebook] 
An Interactionist Anthology

Part I. Theorizing Sex
Ch.1 Sex, Symbolic Interactionism, and Social Constructionism by Chris Brickell
Ch.2 Muscle and Blood: Erotic Fantasy in Theory and Practice by Don Kulick
Ch.3 Stating Desire: Sexuality, the State, and Social Control by Misty Luminais
Ch.4 Scripting Sexual Practice in Differing Social Contexts: Young Women Negotiating Mothers′ Expectations in Hong Kong and Britain by Stevi Jackson and Petula Sik Ying Ho
Ch.5 Sex as Theater: Action, Character and the Erotic by Charles Edgley
Part II. Constructing Sexual Meanings
Ch.6 Talking Sex: Parents, Schools, and Sexuality by Sinikka Elliott and Josephine Ngo Mc Kelvy
Ch.7 Techno-sexuality: The Sexual Pragmatists of the Technological Age by Dennis D. Waskul
Ch.8 Painting Desire Pink: Meaning-Making at a Romance Sex Store by Alison Better
Part III. Negotiating Sexual Selfhood
Ch.9 ‚′Somewhere between Evangelical and Queer′: Sexual-Religious Identity Work in an LGBT Christian Church by J. Edward Sumerau
Ch.10 Negotiating Promiscuity: Straight Edge (s Xe), Sex, and the Self by Jamie L. Mullaney
Ch.11 The Challenges of Identity Formation for Bisexual-Multiracial Women of Asian/White Descent by Beverly Yuen Thompson
Ch.12 ‚Give Me a Dominant of Any Gender Over Any Kind of Non-Dominant‘: Sexual Orientation Beyond Gender by Brandy L. Simula
Part IV. Sex, Emotion, and Identity
Ch.13 ‚Bittersweet‘ Emotions, Identities, and Sexualities: Insights From a Lesbian Community Space by Clare Forstie
Ch.14 Not Necessarily Broken: Redefining Success When Polyamorous Relationships End by Elisabeth Sheff
Ch.15 A Symbolic Interactionist Approach to Asexuality by Susie Scott, Matt Dawson, and Staci Newmahr
Part V. Sexual Stories
Ch.16 The Unfortunate Adventures of a Girl in the Know by Stella Meningkat
Ch.17 Backroom ‚Dance‘ by Ruby Pearson
Ch.18 A Conflicted Mind by John P.
Ch.19 On Confessing One′s Kink in a Sexuality Textbook by Tanya Bezreh
Ch.20 Intersections of Vampirism and Sexuality: A Narrative Description of a Vampire Feeding by D J Williams
Ch.21 Adjusting the Inner Face by Giselle Ridgeway

Dr. Newmahr is an ethnographer and the author of Playing on the Edge: Sadomasochism, Risk and Intimacy (Indiana University Press, 2011), an ethnography of an SM community that theorizes risk-taking and emotion from an interactionist perspective. She is Associate Editor of Symbolic Interaction (Wiley-Blackwell). She has published several papers in sociology and interdisciplinary journals. Most recently, she completed an invited chapter for the anthology Life as Performance: A Dramaturgical Handbook (Ashgate, expected 2012) and an article on the eroticism of Renaissance Faire.  She is also a contributor to The Routledge Handbook of Deviant Behavior (2012).  She is currently working on her second monograph.