Sex Matters: The Sexuality and Society Reader / Edition 4

by Mindy Stombler, Dawn M. Baunach, Wendy Simonds, Elroi J. Windsor, Elisabeth O. Burgess

Overview

The best-selling sexualities reader in the social sciences.

Sex Matters: The Sexuality and Society Reader has a strong sociological focus and a sex-positive perspective. With 38 new readings, Sex Matters covers a wide and diverse range of sexual experiences and identities and tackles controversial issues in a straightforward, nonstigmatizing manner. The editors mix qualitative and quantitative empirical pieces, sexual narratives and personalized accounts, cutting-edge research, and articles from the popular press for a wealth of content and diverse perspectives.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780393935868
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	10/16/2013
Edition description:	Fourth Edition
Pages:	752
Product dimensions:	9.00(w) x 7.40(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Mindy Stombler is a senior lecturer in sociology at Georgia State University. Her research has focused on the production of sexual collective identities. For example, she explored how men in gay fraternities negotiated their dual identities of being gay and being Greek and how men in gay fraternities reproduced hegemonic masculinity. Her current research focuses on power relations and oral sex as well as a variety of pedagogical issues. For more information, please visit her website.

Dawn M. Baunach is an associate professor of sociology at Georgia State University. Her research interests include sexuality and gender inequalities, statistics and methodologies, social demography, and the sociology of food. She is currently studying various sexual attitudes and behaviors, including same-sex marriage, sexual prejudices, sexual disclosure, and bullying.

Wendy Simonds is a professor of sociology at Georgia State University. She is the author of Abortion at Work: Ideology and Practice in a Feminist Clinic and Women and Self-Help Culture: Reading Between the Lines; coauthor with Barbara Katz Rothman of Centuries of Solace: Expressions of Maternal Grief in Popular Literature, and coauthor with Barbara Katz Rothman and Bari Meltzer Norman of Laboring On: Birth in Transition in the United States. She is currently the president of SSSP.

Elroi J. Windsor is an assistant professor of sociology at Salem College in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and incoming chair of SSSP’s Sexual Behavior, Politics, and Communities division. Windsor’s teaching and research interests include gender, sexuality, health, and embodiment. Most recently, Windsor researched the disparate regulation of transgender and cisgender consumers of surgical body modification.

Elisabeth O. Burgess is the director of the Gerontology Institute and an associate professor of gerontology and sociology at Georgia State University. Her research interests focus on changes in intimate relations over the life course, including involuntary celibacy, sexuality and aging, and intergenerational relationships. In addition, Dr. Burgess writes on theories of aging and attitudes toward older adults.

Table of Contents

COMPREHENSIVE TABLE OF CONTENTS

* New to this Edition

Chapter 1: Categorizing Sex

Spotlight on Research: An Interview with Raewyn Connell*

1 Greta Christina, Are We Having Sex Now or What?

Stephanie A. Sanders and June Machover Reinisch, Would You Say You “Had Sex” If... ?

2 Kate Haas, Who Will Make Room for the Intersexed?

Suzanne Kessler, Defining Genitals: Size Does Matter

3 Jamison Green, Sex and the Trans Man

4 Jane Ward, Straight Dude Seeks Same: Mapping the Relationship between Sexual Identities, Practices, and Cultures

5 Gary Greenberg, Gay by Choice? The Science of Sexual Identity*

6 Kirsten McLean, Hiding in the Closet? Bisexuals, Coming Out and the Disclosure Imperative*

Chapter 2: Investigating Sexuality

Spotlight on Research: An Interview with Julia R. Heiman

7 Vern L. Bullough, Alfred Kinsey and the Kinsey Report

8 Edward O. Laumann, John H. Gagnon, Robert T. Michael, and Stuart Michael, Survey of Sexual Behavior of Americans

Mindy Stombler and Dawn M. Baunach, Doing It Differently: Women’s and Men’s Estimates of Their Number of Lifetime Sexual Partners (revised)

9 Allan M. Brandt, Racism and Research: The Case of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study

10 Denise Donnelly, Elisabeth O. Burgess, and Wendy Simonds, Sexuality and Social Theorizing

11 Teela Sanders, Sexing Up the Subject: Methodological Nuances in Researching the Female Sex Industry*

Mindy Stombler and Amanda M. Jungels, Challenges of Funding Sex Research (revised)

Chapter 3: Representing Sex

Spotlight on Research: An Interview with Joshua Gamson

12 Dionne P. Stephens and April L. Few, Hip Hop Honey or Video Ho: African American Preadolescents’ Understanding of Sexual Scripts*

13 Chong-suk Han, Geisha of a Different Kind: Gay Asian Men and the Gendering of Sexual Identity*

14 Jeffrey Escoffier, Gay-for-Pay: Straight Men and the Making of Gay Pornography

Clive M. Davis and Naomi B. McCormick, What We Know about Pornography

15 Loree Erickson, Out of Line: The Sexy Femmegimp Politics of Flaunting It!*

16 Carmine Sarracino and Kevin M. Scott, The Porning of America*

Chapter 4: Learning about Sex

Spotlight on Research: An Interview with Ritch C. Savin-Williams (revised)

17 Wendy Simonds and Amanda M. Jungels, The Death of the Stork: Sex Education Books for Children (revised)

Sol Gordon and Judith Gordon, What Do I Say to My Children?

18 Karen Sternheimer, Fear of Sex: Do the Media Make Them Do It?

19 Melinda Miceli, In the Trenches: LGBT Students Struggle with School and Sexual Identity*

20 Amy M. Fasula, Kim S. Miller, and Jeffrey Wiener, Sexual Risk and the Double Standard for African American Adolescent Women*

21 Susan Rose, Going Too Far? Sex, Sin and Social Policy

Heather Boonstra, Preventing STIs

Chapter 5: The Sexual Body

Spotlight on Research: An Interview with Leonore Tiefer

22 Elisabeth O. Burgess and Amy Palder, The G-Spot and Other Mysteries (revised)

Scott Poulson-Bryant, Hung: A Meditation on the Measure of Black Men in America

23 Robert Darby, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice: Why Can’t We Stop Circumcising Boys?

Elisabeth O. Burgess, Female Genital Cutting

24 Meika Loe, Fixing the Broken Male Machine

25 Virginia Braun, In Search of (Better) Sexual Pleasure: Female Genital “Cosmetic” Surgery*

26 Peter Hennen, Bear Bodies, Bear Masculinity: Recuperation, Resistance, or Retreat?*

27 Ina May Gaskin, The Pleasures of Childbirth

28 Lenore Manderson, Boundary Breaches: The Body, Sex and Sexuality after Stoma Surgery*

Chapter 6: Sexual Practices

Spotlight on Research: An Interview with Elisabeth Sheff*

29 B.J. Rye and Glenn J. Meaney, The Pursuit of Sexual Pleasure*

William D. Mosher, Anjani Chandra, and Jo Jones, Sexual Behavior and Health

30 Laura Kipnis, Against Love: A Treatise on the Tyranny of Two

Melissa Travis, Asexuality (revised)

31 Catherine Jean Nash and Alison Bain, “Reclaiming Raunch”? Spatializing Queer Identities at Toronto Women’s Bathhouse Events*

32 Kathleen Bogle, The Hookup Culture on Campus*

Donna Walton, What’s a Leg Got to Do with It?

33 Amy C. Steinbugler, Visibility as Privilege and Danger: Interracial Intimacy in the 21st Century*

34 Sumie Okazaki, Influences of Culture on Asian Americans’ Sexuality

35 John D. DeLamater and Morgan Sill, Sexual Desire in Later Life

36 M. Alfredo González, Latinos on Da Down Low: The Limitations of Sexual Identity in Public Health*

Keith Boykin, 10 Things You Should Know about the DL

37 Rebecca F. Plante, Sexual Spanking, the Self, and the Construction of Deviance*

Chapter 7: Sexual Disease

Spotlight on Research: An Interview with Claire Sterk

38 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Tracking the Hidden Epidemics (revised)

39 Elizabeth Fee, Venereal Disease: Sin versus Science

40 Adina Nack, Damaged Goods: Women Managing the Stigma of STDs

Kathleen Dolan and Phillip W. Davis, Lesbian Women and Sexually Transmitted Infections

41 Jacob Levenson, Showdown in Choctaw County

Nora Ellen Groce, HIV/AIDS and People with Disability

42 Joia S. Mukherjee, Structural Violence, Poverty and the AIDS Pandemic*

David M. Latini and David W. Coon, Aging and HIV—The Changing Face of AIDS

Chapter 8: Social Control of Sexuality

Spotlight on Research: An Interview with Roderick Ferguson*

43 Jeffery S. Mullis and Dawn M. Baunach, The Social Control of Adult-Child Sex

Elizabeth Cavalier and Elisabeth O. Burgess, Too Young to Consent?*

44 Patricia Hill Collins, The Sexual Politics of Black Womanhood

45 Dorothy E. Roberts, Punishing Drug Addicts Who Have Babies: Women of Color, Equality, and the Right of Privacy

Wendy Simonds, From Contraception to Abortion: A Moral Continuum (revised)

46 C.J. Pascoe, Dude, You’re a Fag: Masculinity and Sexuality in High School*

47 Steven Seidman, In the Closet

Chet Meeks, LGBTQ Politics in America: An Abbreviated History

48 Heather Hartley, The “Pinking” of Viagra Culture: Drug Industry Efforts to Create and Repackage Sex Drugs for Women*

Chapter 9: Sexual Violence

Spotlight on Research: An Interview with Diana E. H. Russell (revised)

49 Nicola Gavey, “I Wasn’t Raped, But...” Revisiting Definitional Problems in Sexual Victimization

Denise Donnelly, BDSM or Intimate Violence: How Do You Tell the Difference?

Mattilda Sycamore Bernstein, All That Sheltering Emptiness*

50 Elizabeth A. Armstrong, Laura Hamilton, and Brian Sweeney, Sexual Assault on Campus: A Multilevel, Integrative Approach to Party Rape*

Mindy Stombler and Marni Kahn, Linking Sexual Aggression and Fraternities (revised)

51 Jayne Walker, John Archer, and Michelle Davies, Effects of Rape on Men: A Descriptive Analysis*

Denise Donnelly, Women Raping Men

52 Joane Nagel, Rape and War

Chapter 10: Commercial Sex

Spotlight on Research: An Interview with Jacqueline Boles

53 Elizabeth Bernstein, Sex Work for the Middle Classes*

Katherine Frank, Strip Clubs and Their Regulars

54 Lisa Jean Moore, Overcome: The Money Shot in Pornography and Prostitution*

55 Alice Leuchtag, Human Rights, Sex Trafficking, and Prostitution

Cynthia Enloe, Sexuality and Militarism

*56. Barbara G. Brents and Kathryn Hausbeck, Marketing Sex: U.S. Legal Brothels and Late Capitalist Consumption

*57. Elroi J. Windsor and Elisabeth O. Burgess, Sex Matters: Future Visions for a Sex-Positive Society

Name Index

Subject Index