1st Edition
Sexualities Research Critical Interjections, Diverse Methodologies, and Practical Applications
List of Tables
Acknowledgements
List of contributors
Chapter One – Introduction
Andrew King, Ana Cristina Santos and Isabel Crowhurst
Part I – Critical Interjections
Chapter Two – Materialism, micropolitics and the sexuality-assemblages of young men
Pam Alldred and Nick Fox
Chapter Three – Ordinary Sexuality
Brian Heaphy
Chapter Four – ‘Counting’ for equality: Youth, class and sexual citizenship
Elizabeth McDermott
Chapter Five – The Normative Account: Sexual Experiences and Constructions of Masculinity among Young Moroccan Men in Europe
Vulca Fidolini
Chapter Six – Practice Theory and Interactionism: an integrative approach to the sociology of everyday sexuality?
Stevi Jackson and Sue Scott
Part II – Critical Methodologies
Chapter Seven – Making Space at the (Queer) Academic Table?
Yvette Taylor
Chapter Eight - Challenges in reflexive research into loneliness and isolation in older lesbians
Jill Wilkens
Chapter Nine – Reading texts and their silences: Sexuality and the autobiographical method
Roma Dey
Chapter Ten – Intimate partner violence in lesbian relationships: an interactional-structural analysis
Alžběta Možíšová
Chapter Eleven – "Inside/out": researching young adults’ sexuality in a(n) (un)familiar space. A reflexive approach
Ana Cristina Marques
Part III – Critical Practices
Chapter Twelve - Uncomfortable bargains? Networking between local authorities and LGBT associations in the context of neoliberalism
Beatrice Gusmano
Chapter Thirteen - Transgendered offenders within the prison estate: A comparative analysis of penal policy
Joanna Jamel
Chapter Fourteen - Conducting Sex Work Research in a Politically Contentious Climate: Lessons from Ireland
Paul Ryan and Susann Huschke
Chapter Fifteen - Medicalized virilism under scrutiny: expert knowledge on male sexual health in Italy
Raffaella Ferrero Camoletto and Chiara Bertone
Chapter Sixteen - Challenging the use of heteronormative categories in childlessness studies
Gerardo Zamora
References
Biography
Andrew King is a senior lecturer in Sociology at the University of Surrey, UK
Ana Cristina Santos is a sociologist and senior researcher at the Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Isabel Crowhurst is a lecturer in Sociology and Criminology at the University of Essex, UK
With this wide-ranging collection of essays, European sociological research on sexualities can be said to have come of age. Representing the work of both established and early career scholars, the book both offers an important overview of the key concerns and approaches within the field, and advances our understanding of the complex realities of sexual relationships and identities in contemporary Europe.
Sasha Roseneil, Professor of Sociology and Executive Dean (Social Sciences, University of Essex
This book presents a fascinating and eclectic range of topics related to the sociology of sexuality, which demonstrates a rich seam of theoretical, methodological and applied approaches variously utilised by sexualities researchers. It represents the vitality of established and emerging sexualities scholarship across Europe, importantly interwoven with the wider contemporary socio-political contexts in which sexualities research is situated.
Kathryn Almack, Professor, School of Health and Social Work, University of Hertfordshire, UK
