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Index
Cover
Half Title
Title
Copyright
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
PART 1 Laying the foundations
1 Welcome to the new sexuality studies
2 Construction as a social process
3 The shifting lines of sexual morality
4 Trans categories and the sex/gender/sexuality system: how transforming understandings of sex and gender can shift sexuality
5 Unthinking compulsory sexuality: introducing asexuality
6 The dos and don’ts of dating: heterosexual and LGBTQ dating rituals as sexual scripts
7 Why sexual identities, behaviors, and attractions do not always “match”
8 Method matters: discovering how early motherhood, monogamy, and social class shape young women’s sexuality
9 Suicide is only part of the story: telling wounded truths about LGBTQ youth
10 Sex positivity: a Black feminist gift
PART 2 Bodies and behaviors
11 The social meanings of sexual intercourse
12 Polishing the pearl: discoveries of the clitoris
13 But can you ever win? Genital cosmetic procedures
14 The social meanings and practices of orgasm
15 Anal sex: phallic and other meanings
16 Rethinking dick pics
17 Reconceiving unintended pregnancy: considering context in sexual and reproductive decision making
18 Sex in later life: beyond dysfunction and the coital imperative
19 “There’s really no reason to settle”: size acceptance as a path to sexual empowerment
PART 3 Relating and relationships
20 Romance and other threats to our future
21 One is not born a bride: weddings and the heterosexual imaginary
22 Yes, no, maybe so? Inequalities in sexual consent and sexual pleasure for young adults
23 What do vulnerability, shame, and mindfulness have to do with intimacy?
24 Interracial romance: the logic of acceptance and domination
25 Romantic apartheid: digital sexual racism in online dating
26 Sexualized othering in multiracial women’s experiences with sex and romance
27 Gay racism: the institutional and interactional patterns of racism in gay communities
28 Gender labor, racework, and trans pleasure: transgender individuals’ experiences in intimate relationships
29 “We were on a BREAK!”: men chasing masculinity and women seeking pleasure in affairs
30 Polyamory, mononormativity, and polyqueer kinship
PART 4 Sex, gender, and sexuality
31 Intersexy, but fat: on the selective celebration of bodily differences
32 Trans sexualities: identities, relationships, and desires
33 Adolescent girls’ sexuality: sexual agency and the renovated sexual double standard
34 “There is no such thing as a slut”: creating and destroying the “good girl” in Taylor Swift’s musical persona
35 “Guys are just homophobic”: rethinking adolescent homophobia and heterosexuality
36 Not “straight,” but still a “man”: negotiating nonheterosexual masculinities
37 Straight men and women: hegemonic and counter-hegemonic straightness
38 How “regular sex” contributes to the gender gap in orgasms
39 Sacred and beastly sex: abstinence pledges and masculinity
40 Heteroflexibility
PART 5 Social structures and institutions
41 The economy and American marriage: change and continuity
42 The marriage contract: the legal context of marriage
43 The elusive goal of sexual health
44 Medicine and the making of a sexual body
45 The feminization of “responsive” desire
46 The coloniality of sexuality
47 “I am God’s creation”: religion as a positive force in the lives of LGBTQ+ persons of faith
48 The politics of sexuality and gender expression in schools
49 Sex education and its failures: from social inequalities to intimate possibilities
PART 6 Navigating inequalities and oppressions
50 The body, disability, and sexuality
51 The intersection of sexuality and intellectual disabilities: shattering the taboo
52 Disrupting dichotomies: nonbinary sexual identities
53 Creando una familia: LBQ Latinas facilitating bonds through shared race/ethnicity
54 “Heterosexual families do not have to explain themselves”: heteronormativity in the lives of LGBTQ+ children and parents
55 Intersected lives: race, class, and gender in lesbian- and gay-affirming Protestant congregations
56 “The thorn in my side”: how ex-gays, ex-ex-gays, and celibate gays negotiate their religious and sexual identities
57 The racial and sexual stereotypes of the “down low”
58 Unspoiling identity: combating racial and sexual stigma
PART 7 Sexual cultures, places, and scenes
59 Sexual capital and social inequality: the study of sexual fields
60 Belonging in gay neighborhoods and queer nightlife
61 Queering the sexual and racial politics of urban revitalization
62 “We will always remember”: reactivating queer places as expressions of grief, solidarity, and protest after Pulse
63 The changing role of gay bars in American LGBTQ+ life
64 Learning to be queer: college women’s sexual fluidity
65 Critical consent: negotiating consent in trans-les-bi-queer BDSM communities
66 Nurturing through normalizing, endangering through dramatizing: approaches to adolescent sex and love
PART 8 Sexual labor and commerce
67 The sexual economy and Nevada’s legal brothels
68 Inclusive pleasure: feminist sex shops
69 Looks for sale: the impact of aesthetic labor on the self-concepts of men who strip
70 Intimate labor in the adult film industry
71 Migrant sex work and trafficking: sorting them out
72 Sex work, the victim, and the anti-trafficking movement
73 Sex workers’ rights activism in the United States: navigating the internet in an age of s*x work censorship, state, and corporate surveillance
74 Challenging the controlling images of vamps and victims: sex worker activism in India
PART 9 Sexual politics, social movements, and empowerment
75 Sexuality, state, and nation
76 Anti-homosexuality legislation and religion viewed from a transnational frame
77 The Religious Right, same-sex marriage, and LGBTQ+ rights activism
78 The evolution of same-sex marriage politics in the United States
79 The politics of race, class, and gender in queer safer sex
80 Children’s sexual citizenship
81 War and the politics of sexual violence
82 The history of activism against sexual violence and the modern #MeToo movement
83 A public health approach to campus sexual assault prevention: sexual citizenship, sexual projects, and sexual geographies
84 The ally paradox
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