An affordable primer to sexuality from a sociological perspective. In The Social Construction of Sexuality, Steven Seidman investigates the political and social consequences of privileging certain sexual practices and identities while stigmatizing others. Addressing a range of topics from gay and lesbian identities to sex work, he delves into issues of social control that inform popular beliefs and moral standards. The Second Edition of The Social Construction of Sexuality features a new part that focuses on sexuality and social institutions.

The Social Construction of Sexuality (Contemporary Societies Series)

Politics & Social Sciences

Seidman, Steven

Social Sciences

W.W.Norton&Company

An affordable primer to sexuality written from a sociological perspective. In The Social Construction of Sexuality, Steven Seidman investigates the political and social consequences of privileging certain sexual practices and identities while stigmatizing others. Addressing a range of topics from gay and lesbian identities to sex work, Seidman delves into issues of social control that inform popular beliefs and moral standards. The new Third Edition features three new chapters that focus on the changing cultures of intimacy, the promise and perils of cyber intimacies, and youth struggles to negotiate independence and intimate solidarity.

The Social Construction of Sexuality (Contemporary Societies)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Though attitudes toward sexuality have changed greatly over the past two centuries, it is still taken for granted that a distinction can be made between natural and unnatural manifestations of sexuality. In The Social Construction of Sexuality, Steven Seidman questions such assumptions and investigates the political and social consequences of privileging certain sexual practices and identities while stigmatizing others. Addressing a range of topics from gay and lesbian identities to sex work, he delves into issues of social control that inform popular beliefs and moral standards. The Social Construction of Sexuality widens the public discussion of the morality and politics of sexuality. With this insightful exploration of society’s effect on our sexual choices, Seidman once again makes a significant contribution to the sociological study of sexuality. The Social Construction of Sexuality is part of the Contemporary Societies series.

Self-Help

A sophisticated analysis of contemporary sexual life and its moral conflicts that examines the two sexual ideologies, the libertarian and romanticist and looks at how to preserve sexual choice and pleasure and offer social and personal criticisms.

Embattled Eros: Sexual Politics and Ethics in Contemporary America (Thinking Gender)

History

Routledge

In Romantic Longings Steven Seidman offers an original perspective on the origins and current meaning of the American intimate culture. Drawing on a wide range of sources--sex surveys, advice literature, autobiographies, novels--he charts a change from a Victorian spiritual ideal to efforts by current reformers to sexualize love. Stressing that contemporary notions of intimacy are grounded in twentieth-century historical developments, he observes the birth of a culture of eroticism in the post-World War II years--a culture where sexuality is conceived as both a sphere of love and intimacy and a domain of pleasure and self-expression.

Romantic Longings: Love in America, 1830-1980

Sociology

Gay life has become increasingly open in the last decade. In Beyond the Closet , Steven Seidman, a well-known author and leading scholar in sexuality, is the first to chronicle this lifestyle change and to look at the lives of contemporary gays and lesbians to see how their "out" status has changed. This compelling, well-written, and smart account is an important step forward for the gay and lesbian community.

Beyond the Closet: The Transformation of Gay and Lesbian Life

Reference

Beyond the Closet

Liberalism and the Origins of European Social Theory

Liberalism and the origins of European social theory

Europe

University of California Press

Social Postmodernism offers a transformative political vision and addresses the live questions in identity politics.  The postmodern focus on race, sexuality and gender is sharpened by integrating the micro-social concerns of the social movements associated with these issues and macro-institutional and cultural analysis. Social Postmodernism brings together leading theorists to explore further the implications for the discourses of feminism, post-Marxian cultural studies, African-American, Gay, Latino/a and postcolonial studies.

Social Postmodernism: Beyond Identity Politics (Cambridge Cultural Social Studies)

Nicholson, Linda

Cambridge University Press

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The Social Construction of Sexuality (Contemporary Societies Series)

The Social Construction of Sexuality (Contemporary Societies)

The Social Construction of Sexuality (Contemporary Societies Series)

Embattled Eros: Sexual Politics and Ethics in Contemporary America (Thinking Gender)

Romantic Longings: Love in America, 1830-1980

Beyond the Closet: The Transformation of Gay and Lesbian Life

Beyond the Closet

Liberalism and the origins of European social theory

Liberalism and the Origins of European Social Theory

Social Postmodernism: Beyond Identity Politics (Cambridge Cultural Social Studies)