Documents of life: An introduction to the problems and literature of a humanistic method (Contemporary social research series)

Politics & Social Sciences

Ken Plummer

Social Sciences

Allen& Unwin

The Making of the modern homosexual

<p>Is the "homosexual" a type of person that has been with us-in various guises-throughout history? Is he or she simply a "being" that we are slowly discovering and understanding better? Or is the "homosexual" simply an invention of our century? The authors of this original and important new work take this last view and argue that although "same-sex" sexual experiences may have existed throughout history, the notion of the "homosexual" is a peculiarly modern idea which has profound consequences in the structuring of recent homosexual experiences. The essays in this book take the contemporary construction of the homosexual as their common concern.</p>

Hutchinson

The Sexual Self: The Construction of Sexual Scripts

<p>In the late 1960s two sociologists, John Gagnon and William Simon, developed the concept of sexual scripts as part of a larger project of treating sexuality like any other social phenomenon. In the end, their vision of social construction turned Kinsey on his head, and their model became the dominant paradigm of social science inquiry into human sexuality, and spurred the development of an entire field of Sexuality Studies. Sexual activity, they argued, was like other social processes, yet one of increasing importance in the construction of the self. Michael Kimmel has gathered together essays from three generations of scholars influenced by this perspective on sexuality. These include many of the foremost social scientists writing and researching sexuality today. The book begins with Kimmel's reflections on the unusual careers of Gagnon and Simon, examines the construction of both sexual identity and sexual behaviors in a variety of settings, and ends with the two of them speaking in their own provocative voices about their perspective in interviews conducted originally for a German journal in 1998.</p>

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Peter M. Nardi

Pepper Schwartz

Barry D. Adam

Stevi Jackson

Rebecca F. Plante

Jeffrey Escoffier

Arlene Stein

Anke A. Ehrhardt

Psychology & Counseling

Vanderbilt University Press

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