Sexual Cultures: Communities, Values and Intimacy
Weeks, Jeffrey / Holland, Janet 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 covere...