Sexuality and Gender [Paperback]

The essays included here reflect differences in race, gender and class and demonstrate how different social groups experience different sets of social norms. Topics include gender and sex theory, identity, childhood and adolescent sexuality, the objectification of women, sexuality and religion, leisure and recreation, politics and social change and the possible future of sexual relationships.List of Contributors.

Acknowledgments.

Introduction. .

Part I: Thinking About Sexuality.

Introduction.

1. Higamous-Hogamous (Dorothy Dinnerstein).

2. Symbolic Interaction and Sexual Conduct: An Emergent Perspective (Ken Plummer).

3. Pleasure Under Patriarchy (Catharine MacKinnon).

4. A Queer Encounter: Sociology and the Study of Sexuality (Steve Epstein).

Part II: Gender and Sexual Identities.

Introduction.

5. The Naked Citadel (Susan Faludi).

6. Subject Honor and Object Shame: The Construction of Male Homosexuality and Stigma in Nicaragua (Roger Lancaster).

7. Copycat (Kath Weston).

8. Sexuality and Gender in Certain Native American Tribes: The Case of Cross-Gender Females (Evelyn Blackwood) .

Part III: Sexuality in Childhood and Adolescence.

Introduction.

9. Sexuality and Gender in Children's Daily Worlds (Barrie Thorne and Zella Luria).

10. I Couldn't Ever Picture Myself Having Sex.: Gender Differences in Sex and Sexual Subjectivity (Karen A. Martin).

11. The Punk Guys Will Really Overpower What the Punk Girls Have to Say: The Boy's Turf (Excerpt) (Lauraine Leblanc).

12. Tough Timesl��