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Sexual (Dis)Orientation

Gender, Sex, Desire and Self-Fashioning

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Authors:
  1. Tamsin Wilton

    1. University of the West of England, UK

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction: What’s All This About? Comments on Method and Language

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    Pages 1-5

  3. Of Models and Muddles: Disorientating Theories of Sexuality

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    Pages 6-22

  4. Declaration of Self-Interest: Epistemological and Methodological Conundrums

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    Pages 23-53

  5. What is Sex? Asking the Impossible Question

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    Pages 54-75

  6. Telling the Difference: Desire, Safety and Sameness

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    Pages 76-99

  7. Haunted by the Gynander: Disruptive Genders

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    Pages 100-125

  8. Stand by Your Man? Telling Heterosexual Stories

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    Pages 126-153

  9. Your Mum’s an Oxymoron: Sexuality and Reproductivity

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    Pages 154-176

  10. The Lesbian Vanishes? Notes for a New Sociology of the Erotic

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    Pages 177-196

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 197-223
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About this book

Tamsin Wilton interviewed close to a hundred women in order to understand how we go about constructing a sexual identity as 'lesbian' or 'heterosexual'. How do women experience desire? What are the differences between men and women as sexual partners? How do desire, pleasure, intimacy, gender and morality become part of women's sense of self? Asking these, and other questions, this study breaks through the stand-off between essentialists and constructionists to propose a fresh re-thinking of the desiring self.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of the West of England, UK

    Tamsin Wilton

About the author

TAMSIN WILTON is Professor of Human Sexuality at the University of the West of England, Bristol, UK. She has been active in the field of sexuality studies and queer studies since 1987 and has published many books, including Lesbian Studies: Setting an Agenda, Sexualities in Health and Social Care and EnGendering AIDS.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Sexual (Dis)Orientation

  • Book Subtitle: Gender, Sex, Desire and Self-Fashioning

  • Authors: Tamsin Wilton

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230506213

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2004

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-0572-7Published: 06 July 2004

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-0574-1Published: 06 July 2004

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-50621-3Published: 06 July 2004

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 223

  • Topics: Gender Studies, Sexual Behavior

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