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Janet Holland (Senior Research Lecturer)⁰,
Lisa Adkins (Lecturer in Sociology)¹

Janet Holland
1. Institute of Education, London, UK
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Lisa Adkins
1. University of Kent, Canterbury, UK
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Table of contents (12 chapters)

Front Matter

Pages i-xi

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Introduction
1. Introduction
  
  Janet Holland, Lisa Adkins
  
  Pages 1-12
The Family and Gendered Identities
1. Front Matter
  
  Pages 13-13
  
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2. Gender, Care and Sensibility in Family and Kin Relationships
  
  Jennifer Mason
  
  Pages 15-36
3. The Political Economy of Romance: Popular Culture, Social Divisions and Social Reconstruction in Wartime
  
  Patricia Allatt
  
  Pages 37-59
4. The ‘Single Mothers’ Debate: A Children’s Rights Perspective
  
  Sophie Laws
  
  Pages 60-77
5. Girls’ Own Story: The Search for a Sexual Identity in Times of Family Change
  
  Chris Mann
  
  Pages 78-95
Bodies, Medicalisation and Control
1. Front Matter
  
  Pages 97-97
  
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2. Breast Feeding and the Social Construction of Heterosexuality, or ‘What Breasts are Really for’
  
  Pam Carter
  
  Pages 99-119
3. Women Hearing Men: The Cervical Smear Test and the Social Construction of Sexuality
  
  Linda McKie
  
  Pages 120-135
4. Discourses on the Menopause and Female Sexual Identity
  
  Gail Darke
  
  Pages 136-158
The Construction of Heterosexuality
1. Front Matter
  
  Pages 159-159
  
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2. Contradictions in Discourse: Gender, Sexuality and HIV/AIDS
  
  Diane Richardson
  
  Pages 161-177
3. Gender and Sexuality in the Social Construction of Rape and Consensual Sex: A Study of Process and Outcome in Six Recent Rape Trials
  
  Anne Edwards
  
  Pages 178-201
4. Keeping them in their Place: Hetero/sexist Harassment, Gender and the Enforcement of Heterosexuality
  
  Debbie Epstein
  
  Pages 202-221
5. Desperately Seeking Post-heterosexual Woman
  
  Carol Smart
  
  Pages 222-241
Back Matter

Pages 242-248

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About this book

The study of sexuality is moving from margin to centre stage in sociology, as the 1994 British Sociological Association annual conference on 'Sexualities in Social Context' demonstrated. Drawn from that conference, the papers in this volume contribute to the debates which have developed on the relationship between the sexual and the social, and between gender and sexuality. The focus is on women, and from different perspectives the authors explore the themes of gendered identity, the construction of sexuality, embodiment and control. The social contexts in which these themes are elaborated include the family, the law, the education system, medical practice and discourse, and cultural representations and texts.

Editors and Affiliations

Institute of Education, London, UK

Janet Holland
University of Kent, Canterbury, UK

Lisa Adkins

Bibliographic Information

Book Title: Sex, Sensibility and the Gendered Body
Editors: Janet Holland, Lisa Adkins
Series Title: Explorations in Sociology.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24536-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1996
Softcover ISBN: 978-0-333-65002-8Published: 24 March 1996
eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-24536-9Published: 27 July 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 248
Topics: Politics of the Welfare State, Gender Studies, Sexual Behavior, Cultural Studies, Sociology, general

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

Front Matter

Introduction

The Family and Gendered Identities

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Bodies, Medicalisation and Control

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The Construction of Heterosexuality

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Back Matter

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About this book

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Institute of Education, London, UK

University of Kent, Canterbury, UK

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