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Sexualizing the Social

Power and the Organization of Sexuality

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  • © 1996

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Editors:
  1. Lisa Adkins

    1. University of Kent, Canterbury, UK

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  2. Vicki Merchant

    1. University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK

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Part of the book series: Explorations in Sociology. (EIS)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Lisa Adkins, Vicki Merchant
      Pages 1-11

  5. Sexual Exchange

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 171-171
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    2. Organized Bodies: Gender, Sexuality and Embodiment in Contemporary Organizations

      • Anne Witz, Susan Halford, Mike Savage
      Pages 173-190

    3. Feminist Debates on Prostitution

      • Mary McIntosh
      Pages 191-203

    4. The Cultural, the Sexual, and the Gendering of the Labour Market

      • Lisa Adkins, Celia Lury
      Pages 204-223

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 224-228
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About this book

Sociologists are increasingly aware that analyses of social life must include a consideration of how the social may be structured by the sexual. In turn, this insight is contributing to a shift in understandings of sociology. This volume - drawn from papers from the 1994 British Sociological Association Annual Conference on 'Sexualities in Social Context' - brings together a range of writers who are contributing to this exciting new agenda. Various aspects of social life - including employment, family life, representations, politics, identities and the workings of the law - are considered, in terms of how sexuality shapes their organization and they shape sexuality. In so doing a series of ongoing and new controversies and debates are confronted, from the relationship of feminism to prostitution to the constitution of the self in late modernity.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Kent, Canterbury, UK

    Lisa Adkins

  • University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK

    Vicki Merchant

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