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The SAGE Handbook of Global Sexualities

Two Volume Set
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Sociology

May 2020 | 1 080 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd

This two-volume Handbook provides a major thematic overview of global sexualities, spanning each of the continents, and its study, which is both reflective and prospective, and includes traditional approaches and emerging themes. The Handbook offers a robust theoretical underpinning and critical outlook on current global, glocal, and ‘new’ sexualities and practices, whilst offering an extensive reflection on current challenges and future directions of the field. The broad coverage of topics engages with a range of theories, and maintains a multi-disciplinary framework.

PART ONE: Understanding Sexuality: Epistemologies/Conceptual and Methodological Challenges

PART TWO: Enforcing and Challenging Sexual Norms

PART THREE: Interrogating/Undoing Sexual Categories

PART FOUR: Enhancement Practices and Sexual Markets/Industries

PART FIVE: Sexual Rights and Citizenship (And the Governance of Sexuality)

PART SIX: Sexuality and Social Movements

PART SEVEN: Language and Cultural Representation
Volume 1

 
Ana Cristina Santos, Saskia Wieringa, Ryan Thoresen, Chiara Bertone, & Zowie Davy
Editor's Introduction
 
Part 1: Understanding Sexuality: Epistemologies/Conceptual and Methodological Challenges
Matthew Waites
Chapter 1: Global Sexualities: Towards a Reconciliation Between Decolonial Analysis and Human Rights
Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli
Chapter 2: Pre-colonial Actualities, Post-colonial Amnesia and Neo-colonial Assemblage
Alexander Kondakov
Chapter 3: The Queer Epistemologies: Challenges to the modes of knowing about sexuality in Russia
Stefan Lucke
Chapter 4: Researching Childhood Sexuality
Annukka Lahti
Chapter 5: Research perspectives on bisexuality
Rita Alcaire
Chapter 6: Asexuality as an epistemological lens: an evolving multi-layered approach
Lucy Nicholas
Chapter 7: Anarchism and Sexuality
Marie-Louise Janssen
Chapter 8: Sex and Secrecy in the Field: Methodological dilemmas in research in Chinese massage parlours
 
Part 2: Enforcing and Challenging Sexual Norms
Willemijn Krebbekx
Chapter 9: Including Diversity? The politics of sex education in the Netherlands
Barbara Rothmüller & Marion Thuswald
Chapter 10: Sexuality Education: International policies, global developments, and contemporary research perspectives
Chiara Bertone
Chapter 11: Disrupting heterosexuality in intergenerational relations
Ana Lucia Santos
Chapter 12: Trans Athletes and the Post-human: a critical analysis of trans policies in sports
Saskia E. Wieringa
Chapter 13: Heteronormativity and Passionate Aesthetics
Ece Canli
Chapter 14: Prison Heterocissexual Complex: Sociospatial Politics of Queer Incarceration and the Case of Turkey
 
Part 3: Interrogating/Undoing Sexual Categories
Robin Bauer
Chapter 15: BDSM
Stefan F. Ossmann
Chapter 16: Introducing the new kid on the block: Polyamory
Mara Pieri
Chapter 17: Multiple estrangements in the twilight zone: chronic illness and queerness in Southern Europe
Adnan Hossain
Chapter 18: Hijras in South Asia: Rethinking the dominant representations
Lwando Scott
Chapter 19: Queering the Postcolony: Same-sex desire and Xhosa Culture in Postcolonial South Africa
Johanna Debora Imelda & Andi Nur Fa’izah
Chapter 20: Tacit Power: A Case of HIV-Positive Housewives in Indonesia
Volume 2

 
 
Part 4: Enhancement Practices and Sexual Markets/Industries
Diana Teresa Pakasi
Chapter 21: 'Virility Medicines' and Changing Sexualities in Precarious Transformations in West Papua
Raffaella Ferrero Camoletto, Catherine Barrett, & Emily Wentzell
Chapter 22: Questioning the 'viagrization' of (hetero)sexual ageing
Claire Moran & Julie-Anne Carroll
Chapter 23: Consuming yourself into being: Women's consumptive practices and the articulation of acceptable heterosexual femininity
Rusi Jaspal
Chapter 24: Social Representation, Identity and HIV Prevention: The Case of PrEP among Gay Men
Karen Gabriel
Chapter 25: The Algorithms of desire: The field of the pornographic
Petra Östergren
Chapter 26: From zero-tolerance to full integration. Rethinking prostitution policies
Hilary Caldwell & John de Wit
Chapter 27: Criminalise women buying sex? Neo-abolitionist influence on Australian politics and media consumers
 
Part 5: Sexual Rights and Citizenship (and the Governance of Sexuality)
Paddy McQueen
Chapter 28: Sexuality, identity and the politics of recognition
Christina Quinlan
Chapter 29: Sexuality, the law and the experiences of women in Ireland
Ryan Thoreson
Chapter 30: Youth and Sexual Rights
Sharyn Graham Davies
Chapter 31: Sexual Citizenship Re-centred: Gender and Sexual Diversity in Indonesia
Surabhi Shukla
Chapter 32: Transgender Persons in Indian Courtrooms
 
Part 6: Sexuality and Social Movements
Daniel Ahmed Fernández
Chapter 33: Queer Muslim Challenges and Resistances within the Context of Globalized Sexualities
Annie Wilkinson
Chapter 34: "Gender Ideology" as Modular Discourse: A Survey of Transatlantic Activism Against Gender
Yana Kirey-Sitnikova
Chapter 35: Borrowing and imitation in post-Soviet trans activisms
Amets Suess Schwend
Chapter 36: Questioning pathologization in clinical practice and research from trans and intersex perspectives
Nicholas Velotta & Pepper Schwartz
Chapter 37: Abstinence: A Global Perspectives
Nomvuyo Nolutshungu
Chapter 38: Accounting and Authorizing: Sexuality, Violence, and Mass Atrocity Crimes
 
Part 7: Language and Cultural Representation
Sebastian Cordoba
Chapter 39: Non-binary Sexualities: The Language of Desire, Practice, and Embodiment
Aminata Cécile Mbaye
Chapter 40: Images of Sexuality: The Aestheticization of Same-Sex Intimacy in Francophone Literary and Filmic Productions
Mikee N. Inton
Chapter 41: Bodies in Transition: The Bakla as Transgender in Philippine Cinema
Hongwei Bao
Chapter 42: Performing Queer at the Theatre-Documentary Convergence: Mediated Queer Activism in Contemporary China
Zowie Davy
Chapter 43: Freedom Affects in Trans Erotica

Zowie Davy

Ana Cristina Santos

Chiara Bertone

Ryan Thoreson

Saskia E. Wieringa

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