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Rethinking Sexuality

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October 2000 | 192 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
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This thoughtful and accessible book provides a critical examination of the central debates attached to conceptualizing sexuality as a site of knowledge and politics. These are explored in chapters on the meaning of heterosexuality, sexual citizenship and the associated notions of sexual rights and obligations, queer theory and its relationship with feminisms, both `new' and `old'. Also included is discussion of responses to the HIV//AIDS epidemic and the implications for understandings of gender and sexuality.
 
Introduction
 
PART ONE: NEW FEMINISMS, QUEER POSITIONS AND RADICAL REPRESENTATIONS
 
Theorizing Heterosexuality
 
From Lesbian Nation to Queer Nation
Sexual Politics and Social Change

 
 
`New' Feminisms for `Old'?
 
PART TWO: SEXUAL CITIZENSHIP
 
Citizenship and Sexuality
 
Extending Citizenship?
 
Theorizing Sexual Rights
 
PART THREE: SEXUALITY, GENDER AND HIV/AIDS
 
Feminism and the Challenge of AIDS
 
In(Visible) Women and Dis(Appearing) Men
 
Sexuality, Identity and Risk

Diane Richardson

Diane Richardson is well established as an international and national authority in the area of the sociology of sexuality, with many related publications. In particular, she has made a significant contribution to three different areas of this body of knowledge: theories of sexual identity; sociological understandings of HIV/AIDS; and feminist accounts of sexuality.... More About Author

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