Sexuality & the Body Books

New and Published Books

1. Chinese Male Homosexualities

   Memba, Tongzhi and Golden Boy

   By Travis S. K. Kong

   Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series

   This book presents a groundbreaking exploration of masculinities and homosexualities amongst Chinese gay men. It provides a sociological account of masculinity, desire, sexuality, identity and citizenship in contemporary Chinese societies, and within the constellation of global culture. Kong...

   Published April 15th 2012 by Routledge
2. Gender Circuits

   Bodies and Identities in a Technological Age

   By Eve Shapiro

   Series: Contemporary Sociological Perspectives

   Gender Circuits explores the impact of new technologies on the gendered lives of individuals through substantive sociological analysis and in-depth case studies. Examining the complex intersections between gender ideologies, social scripts, information and biomedical technologies, and embodied...

   Published February 8th 2010 by Routledge
3. Sexuality, Health and Human Rights

   By Sonia Corrêa, Rosalind Petchesky, Richard Parker

   Series: Sexuality, Culture and Health

   This new work surveys how rapid changes taking place at the start of the twenty-first century in social, cultural, political and economic domains impact on sexuality, health and human rights. The relationships between men, women and children are changing quickly, as are traditional family...

   Published June 29th 2008 by Routledge
4. Women, Islam and Modernity

   Single Women, Sexuality and Reproductive Health in Contemporary Indonesia

   By Linda Rae Bennett

   In popular debates about reproductive and sexual rights, formal religions, especially Islam, are seen as barriers providing institutional and ideological resistance to women's realization of reproductive and social autonomy. This book challenges this simplified view of Islam. Based on original...

   Published June 12th 2007 by Routledge
5. Consumption and Identity

   By Jonathan Friedman

   Published November 10th 2004 by Routledge
6. For the Love of Women

   Gender, Identity and Same-Sex Relations in a Greek Provincial Town

   By Elisabeth Kirtsoglou

   This extraordinary book opens up the strange world of the 'parea' - a lesbian secret society based in a small-town bar outside Athens, whose members meet clandestinely to drink, dance and flirt. Though conducting intense sexual affairs under the noses of other customers, the parea's members - many...

   Published November 12th 2003 by Routledge
7. The The Magical Body

   By Eves

   An intriguing exploration of the role and significance of the body in the world of a Pacific Islands People, the Lelet of New Ireland (Papua New Guinea). In vivid ethnographic detail, the monograph captures the fluidity and complexity of Lelet conceptions of corporeality and their significance to...

   Published October 19th 1998 by Routledge