Sexual Cultures

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Jeffrey Weeks, Janet Holland

      Pages 1-14

3. Approaches to Sexuality

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15

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   2. From Sexual Divisions to Sexualities: Changing Sociological Agendas

      • Sheila Allen, Diana Leonard

      Pages 17-33

   3. Intimate Citizenship and the Culture of Sexual Story Telling

      • Ken Plummer

      Pages 34-52

   4. Gay Brains, Gay Genes and Feminist Science Theory

      • Hilary Rose

      Pages 53-72

4. Historical Excursions

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 73-73

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   2. The Shock of the Freewoman Journal: Feminists Speaking on Heterosexuality in Early Twentieth-century England

      • Lucy Bland

      Pages 75-96

   3. Mass Observation’s ‘Little Kinsey’ and the British Sex Survey Tradition

      • Liz Stanley

      Pages 97-114

   4. From ‘Immorality’ to ‘Underclass’: The Current and Historical Context of Illegitimacy

      • Andrew Blaikie

      Pages 115-136

5. Identities, Communities and Control

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 137-137

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   2. Medicalisation and Identity Formation: Identity and Strategy in the Context of AIDS and HIV

      • Brian Heaphy

      Pages 139-160

   3. Community Responses to HIV and AIDS: The ‘De-Gaying’ and ‘Re-Gaying’ of AIDS

      • Jeffrey Weeks, Peter Aggleton, Chris Mckevitt, Kay Parkinson, Austin Taylor-Laybourn

      Pages 161-179

   4. Prostitution and the Contours of Control

      • Julia O’Connell Davidson

      Pages 180-198

6. Intimacy

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 199-199

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   2. Intimacy, Altruism and the Loneliness of Moral Choice: The Case of HIV Positive Health Workers

      • Neil Small

      Pages 201-219

   3. Whose Orgasm is this Anyway? ‘Sex Work’ in Long-term Heterosexual Couple Relationships

      • Jean Duncombe, Dennis Marsden

      Pages 220-238

   4. Reputations: Journeying into Gendered Power Relations

      • Janet Holland, Caroline Ramazanoglu, Sue Sharpe, Rachel Thomson

      Pages 239-260

   5. The Conundrum of Sex and Death: Some Issues in Health Care Practice

      • David Clark, Julia Hirst

      Pages 261-283

7. Back Matter

   Pages 284-317

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The new sociology of sexuality has a two-fold aim: to demonstrate how the social shapes the sexual; and to analyse how the sexual in turn becomes a focal point for personal identity, cultural anxiety value debates and political action. Drawing on papers from the 1994 British Sociological Association annual conference on 'Sexualities in Social Context', this volume brings together key contributors to this stimulating new approach. Topics covered include theoretical developments, the relationship between history and contemporary controversies, community and identity, especially in the context of AIDS, value conflicts and changes in the meanings of intimacy. The book as a whole offers a significant intervention into debates on sexuality, and a thoughtful contribution to the broadening of the sociological agenda.

• AIDS
• care
• community
• culture
• feminism
• identity
• Moral
• Sex
• sociology
• Tradition
• sexual behaviour

• South Bank University, London, UK

  Jeffrey Weeks

• Institute of Education, University of London, UK

  Janet Holland

• The Open University, UK

  Janet Holland

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