Sexualizing the Social

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Lisa Adkins, Vicki Merchant

      Pages 1-11

3. Power and Consent

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13

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   2. Heterosexuality as a Problem for Feminist Theory

      • Stevi Jackson

      Pages 15-34

   3. Sinking into his Arms … Arms in his Sink: Heterosexuality and Feminism Revisited

      • Jo VanEvery

      Pages 35-54

   4. The Social Construction of Consent Revisited

      • Lynn Jamieson

      Pages 55-73

4. Identities

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 75-75

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   2. Beyond Victim or Survivor: Sexual Violence, Identity and Feminist Theory and Practice

      • Liz Kelly, Sheila Burton, Linda Regan

      Pages 77-101

   3. Genital Identities: An Idiosyncratic Foray into the Gendering of Sexualities

      • Tamsin Wilton

      Pages 102-121

   4. Irish Masculinities and Sexualities in England

      • Máirtín Mac an Ghaill

      Pages 122-144

   5. Beyond the Predatory Male: The Diversity of Young Glaswegian Men’s Discourses to Describe Heterosexual Relationships

      • Daniel Wight

      Pages 145-170

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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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.

• feminism
• gender
• identity
• labor market
• organization
• politics
• sociology
• violence

• University of Kent, Canterbury, UK

  Lisa Adkins

• University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK

  Vicki Merchant

Policies and ethics