Presents papers from the 1994 British Sociological Association's Annual Conference on Sexualities in Context, considering various aspects of social life including employment, family, representations, politics, and the law in terms of how they may be organized according to sexuality and how they may build sexuality. Topics include the relationship of feminism to prostitution, the limits of social constructionism, the constitution of the self in late modernity, and the relationship of sexuality to gender. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
Sociologists are increasingly aware that analyses of social life must include a consideration of how the social may be structured by the sexual. In turn, this insight is contributing to a shift in understandings of sociology. This volume - drawn from papers from the 1994 British Sociological Association Annual Conference on 'Sexualities in Social Context' - brings together a range of writers who are contributing to this exciting new agenda. Various aspects of social life - including employment, family life, representations, politics, identities and the workings of the law - are considered, in terms of how sexuality shapes their organization and they shape sexuality. In so doing a series of ongoing and new controversies and debates are confronted, from the relationship of feminism to prostitution to the constitution of the self in late modernity.
