| Description |
xvi, 246 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Abjection abortion agency aids -- Barebacking bisexuality blackmail bodies -- Childhood sexuality choice closet commodification -- Community consent cosmopolitanism cybersex -- Desire disability -- Essentialism -- Families fateful moments femininity feminism -- Fetish friendship fundamentalism -- Gay gay liberation gender globalization -- Great transition -- Habitus heterosexuality homophobia homosexuality -- Human sexual rights hybridity -- Individualization informalization intersectionality intimacy -- Lesbian love -- Marriage masculinity masturbation melancholia -- Mixedness moral panic multiculturalism -- Neoliberalism -- Paedophilia perversion pleasure polyamory -- Pornography prostitution psychoanalysis -- Queer -- Recognition reflexivity regulation relationality -- Religion reproductive technologies risk -- Sado-masochism safer sex same-sex marriage secularization -- Sex addiction sex tourism sexology -- Sexual citizenship sexual cultures sexual diversity sexual ethics -- Sexual identity sexual orientation sexual scripts sexual stories -- Sexual violence sexuality sexualization social capital -- Social constructionism space subject -- Toleration trafficking transgender -- Viagra |
| Summary |
Words, Freud once wrote, are like magic. Nowhere have words been more magical than in the writing of sexuality. Through words we learn what is good or bad, pleasurable or painful, significant and insignificant. The words used about sexuality do not simply describe something out there. They help shape what sexuality is. A clearly written presentation of complex ideas, this book provides a pathway to further reading. Arranged alphabetically it is a compendium of one hundred words that are key to the understanding of contemporary sexualities and intimacies.This fascinating book becomes a personal exploration of meanings, as reflected through key words by a renowned theorist of sexuality. It is both a valuable text through which to explore individual meanings of key concepts; and part of a long-term project to investigate the fluid, shifting, ever evolving meanings of the erotic. "Throughout Weeks" shows how meanings change, their need to be contextualized, and how they can become 'magical' in the unfolding of sexual meanings |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical referencesand index |
| Subject |
Gender identity -- Encyclopedias.
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Gender identity.
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Heterosexuality.
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Heterosexuality -- Encyclopedias.
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Homosexuality.
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Homosexuality -- Encyclopedias.
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Sex -- Religious aspects.
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Sex -- Encyclopedias.
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Sex.
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| Genre/Form |
Encyclopedias.
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| LC no. |
2010043369 |
| ISBN |
041537572X (hbk) |
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0415375738 (paperback) |
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9780415375726 (hbk) |
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9780415375733 (paperback) |
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