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Author:   Michael Kimmel
Publisher:   Vanderbilt University Press
Imprint:   Vanderbilt University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 18.00cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 25.30cm
Weight:   0.565kg
ISBN:  

9780826515599

ISBN 10:   0826515592
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   10 July 2007
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction: """"John Gagnon and the Sexual Self""""; Michael Kimmel; SEXUALITIES AND SELVES; """"The Sexual Self in Late Modernity""""; Stevi Jackson; """"Queers, Bodies and Post-Modern Sexualities: A Note on Revisiting the 'Sexual' in Symbolic Interactionism""""; Ken Plummer; """"In Search of Sexual Fingerprints: Exploring the Sociological Construction of Sexual Selves""""; Rebecca Plante; """"Friendship, Sex and Masculinity""""; Peter M. Nardi; SEXUAL SCRIPTS; """"Scripting the Sex: Fantasy, Narrative and Sexual Scripts in Pornographic Films""""; Jeffrey Escoffier; """"The Social Construction of Heterosexuality""""; Pepper Schwartz; """"Shapes of Desire""""; Arlene Stein; """"'It's less work for us and it shows us she has good taste': Masculinity, Sexual Initiation and Contemporary Sexual Scripts"""" Shari Dworkin and Lucia O'Sullivan; """"Relationship Innovation in Male Couples""""; Barry Adam; """"Miscommunication and Misinterpretations: Men's Scripts about Sexual Communication and Unwanted Sex in Interactions with Women""""; David Wyatt Seal, Lucia O'Sullivan, and Anke Ehrhardt; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; """"Sex, Intimacy and Family Life in the United States"""" Ed Laumann, Jenna Mahay and Yoosik Youm; """"Sexual Scripting and Self Process: Intersubjectivity among Gay Men"""" David Knapp Whittier and Rita Melendez; SEXUAL POLITICS; """"Stigma, Passing and the Legacy of the Gay Cultural Revolution for the 21st Century""""; Gilbert Herdt; """"Sexuopharmacology: A Fateful New Element in Sexual Scripts"""" Leonore Tiefer; """"'The Badlands of Desire': Sex Research, Cultural Scenarios, and the Politics of Knowledge Production""""; Steven Epstein; POSTSCRIPT; """"The Never-Ending Conversation: An Interview with John Gagnon"""" Gunter Schmidt; Selected Publications of John Gagnon.

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Michael Kimmel, Professor of Sociology, SUNY Stony Brook, is author of The Gendered Society, The Gender of Desire, and Manhood in America, among other books.

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