Revisiting Sexualities In The 21st Century

Author : Constantinos N. Phellas
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781443876865

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Revisiting Sexualities in the 21st Century by Constantinos N. Phellas Pdf

Sexual interactions are socially constructed within a historical, social and cultural milieu, and are continually defined and redefined accordingly depending on the surrounding economic, political, moral, and religious social forces. Although the human capacity for sexual expression spans a wide range of variations and permutations, it is nonetheless seriously confined, limited and restricted to only a few “acceptable” forms. Western style “sexual acceptability” is, in turn, determined by the prevailing white, heterosexual standards of patriarchy perpetuated through childhood masculine socialization and adolescent and adult machismo practices. Revisiting Sexualities in the 21st Century examines a whole set of explanatory and definitional issues from the very outset, particularly regarding what may be rightly included and excluded from its provenance and coverage. The contributors to this book are brought together from three different methodological spheres: qualitative, quantitative, and historical/comparative. Each author lays out the traditional parameters of the methodology used in their perspectives of social science research, and openly discusses how they have been applied to the study of hetero sexuality/non-heterosexuality and the ways in which their theory and methodology may be improved. Their contributions outline some of the major theoretical and methodological problems that still confront the study of modern sexualities, while also presenting a selection of theoretical and methodological issues of interest to both new and experienced researchers. This anthology identifies the need in contemporary social and cultural studies for more elaborate understandings of the relations of various masculinities and femininities to power, nation, empire, violence, race, class, and embodiment, and, in doing so, brings together an eclectic, multidisciplinary, and wide-ranging collection of essays. The various contributions to this book will appeal to social scientists (especially sociologists, psychologists and sexologists), biomedical scientists, health professionals and other academic and professional audiences, and students, researchers and instructors of sexuality studies. Undoubtedly, with this collection, sexuality studies comes of age as an academic field.

Author : Gilbert Herdt,Cymene Howe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2007-04-11
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781135978907

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21st Century Sexualities by Gilbert Herdt,Cymene Howe Pdf

Exploring sexuality in the twenty-first century, this unique book collects together more than fifty timely and accessible contributions to create a wide-ranging and compelling picture of contemporary American sexuality. Incorporating the latest cutting-edge controversies, theory and methodological material from the major domains of sexual education, sexual health, sexual rights, and globalization, this book includes a superb editorial overview that opens up the field for students and teachers alike. This anthology will be an invaluable supplement to all levels of students and researchers interested in sexuality across a range of disciplines, including anthropology, sociology, gender and sexuality studies and politics.

Author : Nicos Anastasiou,Hubert Faustmann,Iacovos Psaltis
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-21
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781527500525

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Education in a Multicultural Cyprus by Nicos Anastasiou,Hubert Faustmann,Iacovos Psaltis Pdf

Greek Cypriots, Turkish Cypriots, Maronites, Latins, and Armenians have been the primary historical communities that make up the multicultural landscape of Cyprus. However, the continuing conflict between the Greek and Turkish Cypriots has geographically, socially and psychologically segregated these communities, while the influx of economic migrants, especially after Cyprus’s accession to the EU in 2004, has, in turn, contributed to Cyprus’s challenges, arising from multiculturalism, in an altogether different perspective. How has education, over time, addressed and re-examined all these issues introduced by Cyprus’ complex evolving multiculturalism and ethnic diversity? How can education better attend to current problems of coexistence in Cyprus, and what kind of role can it play in a federal re-united country? This collection of essays introduces an innovative and critical examination of these questions in order to provide relevant answers. More specifically, it examines how formal, non-formal and informal education contributed to the creation and perpetuation of the Cyprus conflict, as well as to prejudices, inter-ethnic stereotypes, and misperceptions. The book also discusses how education could contribute to conflict transformation, empathy and peaceful coexistence amongst the different Cypriot communities, and how this has been possible in other multi-ethnic societies. The volume will be of interest to students, practitioners, and researchers interested in peace education, multiculturalism and conflict transformation.

Author : Elena Stylianou,Evanthia Tselika,Gabriel Koureas
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-25
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781350198654

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Contemporary Art from Cyprus by Elena Stylianou,Evanthia Tselika,Gabriel Koureas Pdf

To what extent does locality influence contemporary art? Can any particular artistic practices be defined as uniquely Cypriot? And does art from Cyprus transcend Western boundaries once it enters the global art scene? This volume uses Cyprus as a case study for the exploration of notions of identity, regionalism, and the global and local in contemporary art practice; it is not, therefore, a complete historiography of contemporary Cypriot art. Rather, this critical text provides a theoretical and historical framework that frames and contextualizes art practices from Cyprus, while always relating these back to the international art world. Numerous current and pressing issues-all relevant beyond Cyprus-are investigated in this book including, but not limited to, art as capital, the emergence of the “periphery”, the importance of thriving localities, issues of memory and memorialization, archaeology, artists' identities, conflict and politics, social engagement, gender politics, and such curatorial alternatives as artist-run spaces. In doing all of this, Contemporary Art from Cyprus not only bears on current and future art practices in this region but highlights the importance of Cypriot art in a global context too.

Author : Ipshita Nath
Publisher : Hurst Publishers
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781787388789

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Memsahibs by Ipshita Nath Pdf

For young Englishwomen stepping off the steamer, the sights and sounds of humid colonial India were like nothing they’d ever experienced. For many, this was the ultimate destination to find a perfect civil servant husband. For still more, however, India offered a chance to fling off the shackles of Victorian social mores. The word ‘memsahib’ conjures up visions of silly aristocrats, well-staffed bungalows and languorous days at the club. Yet these women had sought out the uncertainties of life in Britain’s largest, busiest colony. Memsahibs introduces readers to the likes of Flora Annie Steel, Fanny Parks and Emily Eden, accompanying their husbands on expeditions, travelling solo across dangerous terrain, engaging with political questions, and recording their experiences. Yet the Raj was not all adventure. There was disease, and great risk to young women travelling alone; for colonial wives in far-flung outposts, there was little access to ‘society’. Cut off from modernity and the Western world, many women suffered terrible trauma and depression. From the hill-stations to the capital, this is a sweeping, vividly written anthology of colonial women’s lives across British India. Their honesty and bravery, in their actions and their writings, shine fresh light on this historical world.

Author : Diane Richardson
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2000-12-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0761967095

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Rethinking Sexuality by Diane Richardson Pdf

This thoughtful and accessible book provides a critical examination of the central debates attached to conceptualizing sexuality as a site of knowledge and politics. These are explored in chapters on the meaning of heterosexuality, sexual citizenship and the associated notions of sexual rights and obligations, queer theory and its relationship with feminisms, both `new' and `old'. Also included is discussion of responses to the HIV//AIDS epidemic and the implications for understandings of gender and sexuality.

Author : Shira Tarrant
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Feminism
ISBN : 1317814746

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Gender, Sex, and Politics by Shira Tarrant Pdf

Author : Tracie O'Keefe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : UOM:39015073820592

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Sex, Gender & Sexuality by Tracie O'Keefe Pdf

This book extends the previous work of Dr O'Keefe's pansexual model of human behaviour, first explored in her successful publications 'Trans-X-U-All. The Naked Difference.' It dispels much of the mysticism around physical sex, artificially constructed gender and the diversity of sexuality. As well as considering gay, lesbian, transexual and transgendered identities, O'Keefe also looks at the intersex groups such as Hermaphrodites and people who identify as being withoug sex of gender.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004291225

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Challenging the Status Quo by Anonim Pdf

Challenging the Status Quo offers the latest cutting-edge scholarship in the subfield of sociology of diversity and inclusion.

Author : Edmund Coleman-Fountain
Publisher : Springer
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137312709

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Understanding Narrative Identity Through Lesbian and Gay Youth by Edmund Coleman-Fountain Pdf

This book contests the idea that lesbian and gay categories are disappearing, and that sexuality is becoming fluid, by showing how young people use them in a world in which heterosexuality is privileged. Exploring identity making, the book shows how old modernist stories of sexual being entwine with narratives of normality.

Author : Brian J. Worsfold
Publisher : Universitat de Lleida
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9788484094920

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Acculturating Age: Approaches to Cultural Gerontology by Brian J. Worsfold Pdf

Acculturating refers to the interchange of patterns of behaviour, perceptions and ideas between groups of individuals who have different cultural backgrounds. This book, which is the result of collaboration between specialists from different disciplines from around the world, allows the comparison of systems of dependency, mediation skills, empathy and social understanding and cultural attitudes towards people who experience the stages of aging.

Author : Brenda Longfellow,Molly Swetnam-Burland
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781477323601

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Women's Lives, Women's Voices by Brenda Longfellow,Molly Swetnam-Burland Pdf

Literary evidence is often silent about the lives of women in antiquity, particularly those from the buried cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum. Even when women are considered, they are often seen through the lens of their male counterparts. In this collection, Brenda Longfellow and Molly Swetnam-Burland have gathered an outstanding group of scholars to give voice to both the elite and ordinary women living on the Bay of Naples before the eruption of Vesuvius. Using visual, architectural, archaeological, and epigraphic evidence, the authors consider how women in the region interacted with their communities through family relationships, businesses, and religious practices, in ways that could complement or complicate their primary social roles as mothers, daughters, and wives. They explore women-run businesses from weaving and innkeeping to prostitution, consider representations of women in portraits and graffiti, and examine how women expressed their identities in the funerary realm. Providing a new model for studying women in the ancient world, Women’s Lives, Women’s Voices brings to light the day-to-day activities of women of all classes in Pompeii and Herculaneum.

Author : James Cummings
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030922535

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The Everyday Lives of Gay Men in Hainan by James Cummings Pdf

“This book explores the everyday lives of gay men in Hainan, an island province of the People’s Republic of China. Taking an ethnographic and phenomenological approach, it asks how these men construct and experience ways of ‘sexual being’ – as gay, homosexual, tongzhi and/or in the scene – and what these mean for the ways of living they see as possible within a socio-cultural, political and material context characterised by pervasive heteronormativity. It explores what it means for gay men in Hainan to ‘come into the scene’, how internet and mobile technologies figure in their everyday processes of sexual categorisation and how these men negotiate orientations and disorientations towards the future in relation to dominant heterosexual life scripts of marriage and reproduction. This book offers vital insights into the production and restriction of non-heterosexual lives in diverse settings, while addressing universal questions of how certain ways of living are enabled and curtailed in living together with others through powerful conditions of uncertainty and precarity. This book will be of interest to scholars in LGBTQ studies, particularly those with a focus on same-sex intimacies and identities in China.”

Author : Signe Arnfred
Publisher : Nordic Africa Institute
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 917106513X

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Re-thinking Sexualities in Africa by Signe Arnfred Pdf

"This volume sets out to investigate critically existing lines of thought about sexuality in Africa, while also creating space for alternative approaches"--P. [4] of cover.

Author : Paul J. Maginn,Katrin B. Anacker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317288183

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Suburbia in the 21st Century by Paul J. Maginn,Katrin B. Anacker Pdf

The majority of the world’s population now live in urban areas and the 21st century has been declared as the "urban age". However, closer inspection of where people live in cities, especially within so-called advanced liberal democracies such as Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States, reveals that most people live in different types of suburban environments. Drawing together scholars from across the globe, this book provides a series of national, regional, and local case studies from Australia, Canada, Finland, France, Ireland, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States to exemplify the diverse and dynamic nature and importance of suburbia in 21st century urban studies, city-building, and urbanism. This book explores the evolving social, physical, and economic character of the suburbs and how structural processes, market dynamics, and government policies have shaped and transformed suburbia around the world. It highlights the continuing importance of the suburbs and the suburban dream, which lives on albeit under increasing challenges, such as the global financial crisis, structural racism, and the Covid-19 pandemic, which have given rise to various suburban nightmares.