Sexualities: Past Reflections, Future Directions

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Sally Hines, Yvette Taylor

      Pages 1-11

3. Moving Methods, Moving Theories? Advancing Approaches

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13

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   2. Reflexive Sexualities and Reflexive Sociology

      • Brian Heaphy

      Pages 15-31

   3. The Affect of Methods

      • Jacqui Gabb

      Pages 32-51

   4. To Pass Without Hindrance: Citizenship, Community, Diversity — or Death

      • Yvette Taylor

      Pages 52-67

   5. Telling Personal Stories in Academic Research Publications: Reflexivity, Intersubjectivity and Contextual Positionalities

      • Christian Klesse

      Pages 68-90

   6. Born This Way: Congenital Heterosexuals and the Making of Heteroflexibility

      • Jane Ward

      Pages 91-108

   7. Straight Indiscretions or Queer Hypocrites: Public Negotiations of Identity and Sexual Behaviour

      • Eve Shapiro

      Pages 109-129

   8. The Romantic Imaginary: Compulsory Coupledom and Single Existence

      • Eleanor Wilkinson

      Pages 130-145

4. Lived Experiences: Equality and Diversity

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 147-147

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   2. Reimagining Families of Choice

      • Rachel Jones-Wild

      Pages 149-167

   3. The Politics of Sexuality in Portugal: Confronting Tradition, Enacting Change

      • Ana Cristina Santos

      Pages 168-185

   4. Stirring It Up — Again: A Politics of Difference in the New Millennium

      • Sally Hines

      Pages 186-205

   5. Erotic Care: A Queer Feminist Bathhouse and the Power of Attentive Action

      • Davina Cooper

      Pages 206-225

   6. ‘Shanghai Goes West’: A Story of the Development of a Commercial Gay Scene in China

      • Camila Bassi

      Pages 226-245

   7. A Radical Opening: An Exploration of Lesbian/Queer BDSM Public Sexual Cultures

      • Corie Hammers

      Pages 246-265

   8. ‘Sexing Up’ Bodily Aesthetics: Notes towards Theorizing Trans Sexuality

      • Zowie Davy, Eliza Steinbock

      Pages 266-285

   9. Past, Present and Future: Exploring the Sexual Identities of People with Learning Difficulties

      • Ruth Garbutt

      Pages 286-303

5. Back Matter

   Pages 304-315

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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.

• behavior
• community
• Familie
• feminism
• identity
• politics
• sociology
• Tradition
• sexual behaviour

'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 begun many new conversations by combining this methodologically rich and unusual work into one volume. Sexualities will be a resource for sexuality researchers for decades to come!' - Jack Halberstam, Professor of English and Director of the Center for Feminist Research, University of Southern California, USA and author of Gaga Feminism: Sex, Gender and the End of Normal

• University of Leeds, UK

  Sally Hines

• London South Bank University, UK

  Yvette Taylor

CAMILA BASSI Lecturer in Human Geography at Sheffield Hallam University, UK DAVINA COOPER Professor of Law and Political Theory in the Law School at the University of Kent, UK ZOWIE DAVY Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School of Health and Social Care, University of Lincoln, UK JACQUI GABB Lecturer at the Open University, UK CORIE HAMMERS Assistant Professor in the Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies Department at Macalester College, USA BRIAN HEAPHY Head of Sociology at the University of Manchester, UK RACHEL JONES-WILD PhD candidate at Newcastle University, UK CHRISTIAN KLESSE Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies at the Department of Sociology, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK ANA CRISTINA SANTOS Researcher at the Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, Portugal and an Honorary Research Fellow at the Birkbeck Institute for Social Research, Birkbeck, University of London, UK EVE SHAPIRO Assistant Professor at Westfield State University, USA ELIZA STEINBOCK Lecturer in the Humanities Department at the Amsterdam University College, Netherlands JANE WARD Associate Professor of Women's Studies at the University of California Riverside, USA ELEANOR WILKINSON graduated from the School of Geography at the University of Leeds, UK

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