Laurel Westbrook - Introducing the New Sexuality Studies

Introducing the New Sexuality Studies: Original Essays is an innovative, reader-friendly collection of essays that introduces the field of sexuality studies to undergraduate students. Examining the social, cultural, and historical dimensions of sexuality, this collection is designed to serve as a comprehensive yet accessible textbook for sexuality courses at the undergraduate level. The fourth edition adds 51 new essays whilst retaining 33 of the most popular essays from previous editions.

It features perspectives that are intersectional, transnational, sex positive, and attentive to historically marginalized groups along multiple axes of inequality, including gender, race, class, ability, body size, religious identity, age, and, of course, sexuality. Essays explore how a wide variety of social institutions, including medicine, religion, the state, and education, shape sexual desires, behaviors, and identities. Sources of, and empirical research on, oppression are discussed, along with modes of resistance, activism, and policy change.

The fourth edition also adds new user-friendly features for students and instructors. Keywords are italicized and defined, and each chapter concludes with review questions to help students ascertain their comprehension of key points. There is also an online annotated table of contents to help readers identify key ideas and concepts at a glance for each chapter.

Nancy L. Fischer is Professor and Chair of Sociology at Augsburg University in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. Dr. Fischer is a former chair and former secretary of the American Sociological Associations Section on Sexualities. She is co-editor of The Routledge Handbook of Heterosexualities Studies (Routledge, 2020) and, in 2013, edited a special section of The Sociological Quarterly on critical heterosexuality studies. Besides sexuality, her research interests include vintage fashion and urban studies.

Laurel Westbrook is Professor of Sociology at Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA. Dr. Westbrook is the author of Unlivable Lives: Violence and Identity in Transgender Activism (University of California Press, 2021). Their scholarship has also been published in Sexualities, Gender & Society, and the Journal of Health and Social Behavior, among others, and has been recognized with multiple awards from the American Sociological Association.

Fourth Edition

Edited by Nancy L. Fischer and Laurel
Westbrook, with Steven Seidman

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Fourth edition published 2022

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First edition published by Routledge 2006

Second edition published by Routledge 2011

Third edition published by Routledge 2016

British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Fischer, Nancy, editor. | Westbrook, Laurel, 1980 editor. | Seidman, Steven, editor.

Title: Introducing the new sexuality studies : original essays / edited by Nancy L. Fischer and Laurel Westbrook, with Steven Seidman

Description: Fourth edition. | Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022. | Includes bibliographical references and index

Identifiers: LCCN 2021058231 (print) | LCCN 2021058232 (ebook) | ISBN 9780367756406 (hardback) | ISBN 9780367756413 (paperback) | ISBN 9781003163329 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Sex. | SexSocial aspects. | Sexual orientation. | Sex and law. | Sexology.

Classification: LCC HQ21 .I685 2022 (print) | LCC HQ21 (ebook) | DDC 306.7dc23/eng/20211210

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021058231

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021058232

ISBN: 978-0-367-75640-6 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-0-367-75641-3 (pbk)

ISBN: 978-1-003-16332-9 (ebk)

DOI: 10.4324/9781003163329

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PART 1
Laying the foundations

Steven Seidman

Lars D. Christiansen and Nancy L. Fischer

Nancy L. Fischer

Laurel Westbrook

Ela Przybylo

Ellen Lamont

Tony Silva

Jamie Budnick

Tom Waidzunas

Angela Jones

PART 2
Bodies and behaviors

Kerwin Kaye

Lisa Jean Moore

Virginia Braun

Juliet Richters

Simon Hardy

Ben Light, Kylie Jarrett, and Susanna Paasonen

Jennifer A. Reich

Linn J. Sandberg

Jeannine A. Gailey

PART 3
Relating and relationships

Laurie Essig

Chrys Ingraham

Shannon Russell-Miller

Jennifer Gunsaullus

Kumiko Nemoto

Celeste Vaughan Curington and Jennifer Hickes Lundquist

Shantel Gabrieal Buggs

C. Winter Han

alithia zamantakis and Coumbah Sidibe

Alicia M. Walker

Mimi Schippers

PART 4
Sex, gender, and sexuality

Georgiann Davis

Avery Tompkins

Deborah L. Tolman

Adriane Brown

CJ Pascoe

Ghassan Moussawi

James Joseph Dean

Nicole Andrejek and Melanie Heath

Sarah H. Diefendorf

Hctor Carrillo

PART 5
Social structures and institutions

Erica Hunter

Mary Bernstein

Steven Epstein

Celia Roberts

Alyson K. Spurgas

Vrushali Patil

Orit Avishai

Melinda Miceli

Jessica Fields and Jen Gilbert

PART 6
Navigating inequalities and oppressions

Thomas J. Gerschick

Alan Santinele Martino

Andrea D. Miller

Katie L. Acosta

Kate Henley Averett

Krista McQueeney

S.J. Creek

Salvador Vidal-Ortiz and Brandon Andrew Robinson

Terrell J.A. Winder

PART 7
Sexual cultures, places, and scenes

Adam Isaiah Green

Amin Ghaziani

Donovan Lessard

Theodore Greene

Greggor Mattson

Leila J. Rupp, Verta Taylor, and Shaeleya D. Miller

Robin Bauer

Amy T. Schalet

PART 8
Sexual labor and commerce

Barbara G. Brents

Alison Better

Maren T. Scull

Heather Berg

Laura Agustn

Kassandra Sparks

Danielle Antoinette Hidalgo and Cinnamon Maxxine

Gowri Vijayakumar

PART 9
Sexual politics, social movements, and empowerment