Constantinos N. Phellas - Researching Non-Heterosexual Sexualities

CONSTANTINOS N. PHELLAS

First published 2012 by Ashgate Publishing

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

Researching non-heterosexual sexualities.

1. Sexual minoritiesResearch. 2. Sexology.

I. Phellas, Constantinos N.

306.766072-dc23

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Researching non-heterosexual sexualities / [edited] by Constantinos N. Phellas.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-4094-1265-6 (hbk.) 1. Sexual

minoritiesResearch. 2. HomosexualityResearch. 3. SexologyResearch. I. Phellas, Constantinos N.

HQ73.R47 2012

306.766dc23

20120128

ISBN 9781409412656 (hbk)

Meg Barker lectures in psychology at the Open University, specializing in counselling and psychotherapy. She co-edits the journal Psychology & Sexuality, and has produced two edited collections with her co-editor Darren Langdridge on sadomasochism and non-monogamous relationships. Her research involves working within communities drawing on their own discussions and workshops, and she employs visual methods in this context to explore experiences of relationships and sexual practices. She is also a practicing therapist and co-organizes Critical Sexology, the British Association of Sexual and Relationship Therapy conferences, and BiReCon.

Helen Bowes-Catton is a PhD student and associate lecturer at the Open University. Her research uses creative and visual methods to examine the ways in which bisexual identities are experienced and produced in bisexual spaces and in the spaces of everyday life.

Anthony P.M. Coxon (19382012) was an Honorary Professor at Cardiff University, a Professorial Fellow in Sociology in Edinburgh University and Emeritus Professor of Sociological Research Methods (University of Wales). He has held chairs in Essex and Cardiff Universities; he was founding Director of the British Household Panel Study, (now ISER) Essex and has been Acting Director of QUALIDATA. He has taught a wide range of Research Methods courses at all levels at Leeds, MIT, Edinburgh, Cardiff, Essex Universities; as well as at the Essex, Michigan and Swiss Summer Schools in Social Science Data Analysis and in the Quantitative Analysis in Social Sciences Masters course at the Catholic University, Brussels. His specialist areas were Multidimensional Scaling, Computer-aided Content Analysis, Diary Methods and Integrating Quantitative and Qualitative Methods. He was co-founder of Project SIGMA, the UKs principal longitudinal community-based research project directed at Gay and Bisexual Men and Aids/HIV, and he Co-ordinated the WHOs 7-nation Homosexual Response Studies. He has published widely, including over 60 articles and ten books in methodological and substantive areas of research.

Anna Einarsdttir has specialized in researching non-heterosexualities both within the domestic sphere, and more recently, within the context of work. On completion of her PhD from London South Bank University, Anna joined the Morgan Centre for the Study of Relationships and Personal life at the University of Manchester, where she was employed as a Research Associate on a major ESRC funded study entitled Just Like Marriage?: Young Couples Civil Partnerships. Anna then joined Manchester Business School on another ESRC funded project about the experiences of lesbians, gay men and bisexual of bullying and harassment at work. Throughout her research career, Anna has developed expertise in researching sensitive issues by asking difficult questions, managing uncomfortable situations, dealing with emotionally charged issues and listening to good and bad stories of how people deal with particular aspects of their relationships and what some lesbians, gay men and bisexuals may be exposed to at work. Annas research interests include personal and professional relationships, gender and sexualities, in(visibilities), issues of public and private, bullying and harassment, sexualized public spaces and qualitative research. She is committed to open and reflexive research practices, evident in her personal writing style.

Stavros Stavrou Karayanni is Chair of the Department of Humanities at European University Cyprus, where he also teaches English Literature and Cultural Theory. His research interests include postcolonial theory, culture, gender and sexuality, and contemporary Cyprus literature. Oriental dance has been the main focus of his intellectual interest and research. His book Dancing Fear and Desire: Race, Sexuality and Imperial Politics in Middle Eastern Dance (Wilfrid Laurier UP 2004, reprinted 2005 and 2006) reveals the intricate ways in which the present tradition of this controversial dance has been shaped by Eurocentric models that define and control identity performance. Karayanni has broken new ground for this controversial dance by incorporating it in his presentation of academic papers at international conferences, thus assisting its entry into cultural and critical debates. In 2006, Dancing Fear and Desire won the European Society for the Study of English (ESSE) book award in Cultural Studies. Since 2007 he has been the managing editor of Cadences: A Journal of Literature and the Arts in Cyprus.

Gabriel Koureas is Lecturer in modern and contemporary visual culture at the department of History of Art and Screen Media, Birkbeck, University of London. His research interests are in the relationship of memory, conflict and commemoration in the construction of National and gender identities. His past research and published monograph Memory, Masculinity and National Identity in British Visual Culture, 19141930