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

Offering an anthology of original articles on sexuality from a sociological perspective, this book focuses on the diverse and multi-layered meanings of sexuality, sexual behaviors, and sexual identities. The essays explore sexuality as a social process. As a whole, the book takes the perspective that what each of us understands to be sexual is constructed through everyday social processes and interaction, situated in particular spaces and moments, identified through our social-sexual presentations, and symbolized through language, objects and practices. The book is organized around these four distinct but interrelated processes, and augmented by personal narratives around relevant issues. The authors’ goals for the book are to engage students in the sociological enterprise by providing interesting and insightful entries that emphasize the importance of meaning-making in human sexuality, and to provide them with conceptual tools to understand human sexuality in a complex and quickly changing sexual landscape.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über den Autor

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.