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Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Family & relationships > Sexual relations
Joss Whedon's works, across all media including television, film,
musicals, and comic books, are known for their commitment to gender
and sexual equality. They have always encouraged their audiences to
love whomever, and however, they wish. This book is a history of
the sexualities represented in the works of Joss Whedon and it
covers all of Whedon's genres, including fantasy, horror, science
fiction, westerns, superhero stories, and Shakespearean comedy.
Unique for its consideration of the entire arc of Whedon's
two-decade career, from the beginning of Buffy the Vampire Slayer's
first season in 1997 through the conclusion of its twelfth (comic
book) season in 2018, this book examines in detail both
better-known queer sexualities of the LGBTQ spectrum, but also at
lesser-known non-normative sexualities. The book includes chapters
on Whedon's sexually dominant women and submissive men, sexual
pluralism on Firefly, disabled sexualities in Whedon's superhero
narratives, zoophilia in Buffy, queer and heteronormative
sexualities in Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, the subversion of
the sexual tropes of slasher films in The Cabin in Woods, and
dominance and submission in Whedon's Much Ado About Nothing.
This open access edited volume explores physical disability and
sexuality in South Africa, drawing on past studies, new research
conducted by the editors, and first-person narratives from people
with physical disabilities in the country. Sexuality has long been
a site of oppression and discrimination for people with
disabilities based on myths and misconceptions, and this book
explores how these play out for people with physical disabilities
in the South African setting. One myth with which the book is
centrally concerned, is that people with disabilities are unable to
have sex, or are seen as lacking sexuality by society at large.
Societal understandings of masculinity, femininity, bodies and
attractiveness, often lead people with physical disabilities to be
seen as being undesirable romantic or sexual partners. The
contributions in this volume explore how these prevailing social
conditions impact on the access to sexual and reproductive
healthcare, involvement in romantic relationships, childbearing,
and sexual citizenship as a whole, of people with physical
disabilities in the Western Cape of the country. The authors'
research, and first person contributions by people with physical
disabilities themselves, suggest that education and public health
policy must change, if the sexual and reproductive health rights
and full inclusion of people with disabilities are to be achieved.
Policing Sex in the Sunflower State: The Story of the Kansas State
Industrial Farm for Women is the history of how, over a span of two
decades, the state of Kansas detained over 5,000 women for no other
crime than having a venereal disease. In 1917, the Kansas
legislature passed Chapter 205, a law that gave the state Board of
Health broad powers to quarantine people for disease. State
authorities quickly began enforcing Chapter 205 to control the
spread of venereal disease among soldiers preparing to fight in
World War I. Though Chapter 205 was officially gender-neutral, it
was primarily enforced against women; this gendered enforcement
became even more dramatic as Chapter 205 transitioned from a
wartime emergency measure to a peacetime public health strategy.
Women were quarantined alongside regular female prisoners at the
Kansas State Industrial Farm for Women (the Farm). Women detained
under Chapter 205 constituted 71 percent of the total inmate
population between 1918 and 1942. Their confinement at the Farm was
indefinite, with doctors and superintendents deciding when they
were physically and morally cured enough to reenter society; in
practice, women detained under Chapter 205 spent an average of four
months at the Farm. While at the Farm, inmates received treatment
for their diseases and were subjected to a plan of moral reform
that focused on the value of hard work and the inculcation of
middle-class norms for proper feminine behavior. Nicole Perry's
research reveals fresh insights into histories of women, sexuality,
and programs of public health and social control. Underlying each
of these are the prevailing ideas and practices of respectability,
in some cases culturally encoded, in others legislated, enforced,
and institutionalized. Perry recovers the voices of the different
groups of women involved with the Farm: the activist women who
lobbied to create the Farm, the professional women who worked
there, and the incarcerated women whose bodies came under the
control of the state. Policing Sex in the Sunflower State offers an
incisive and timely critique of a failed public health policy that
was based on perceptions of gender, race, class, and respectability
rather than a reasoned response to the social problem at hand.
This book paints a vivid picture of women's active involvement in
reshaping intimate and public sexual life in East Asia. In bringing
together exciting new feminist research on sexuality from East Asia
and making it available to a wider audience, East Asian Sexualities
unsettles stereotypes, rectifies lack of awareness and demonstrates
that East Asia matters. The chapters address the diversity and
variety of everyday sexual lives and sexual politics in China, Hong
Kong, Taiwan, Korea and Japan. They range from workplace sexual
cultures, trans-national sexual relations, the conditions of
sex-work and the emergence of new sexual desires, cultures and
movements. The contributors highlight the gendered and sexual
consequences of globalization and rapid social change. In doing so,
they engage with western debates on late modernity while also
exploring the contested understandings of modernization and
westernization in the East. This is a collection which illuminates
the local situations in which women's sexual lives are lived and
offers fresh perspectives on global issues.
Arab cultural discourse has been slow to respond to changing sexual
behaviour in the Arab world. The contributors to this collection
pick up the slack, ranging across such disciplines as literature,
history, sociology and psychology. Is Damascus the 'chastity
capital' of the Middle East? How do gay men cruise in Beirut? Are
young women in Tunis pressured both to lose and gain weight? What
do Lebanese students write about sexual practices versus public
behaviour? The fresh, compelling research topics covered include
masculinity and migration; colonialism and sexual health; and
fantasy and violence.
The mainstreaming of pornographic imagery into fashion and popular
culture at the turn of the millennium in Britain and the US
signalled a dramatic cultural shift in construction of both
femininity and masculinity. For men and women, raunch became the
new cool. This engaging book draws from a diverse range of examples
including film, popular tabloids, campus culture, mass media
marketing campaigns, facebook profiles, and art exhibits to explore
expressions and meanings of porn chic. Bringing a cultural and
feminist lens to the material, this book challenges the reader to
question the sexual agency of the 12-year-old girl dressed to
seduce in fashions inspired by Katie Price, the college co-ed
flashing her breasts for a film maker during Spring break, and the
waitress making her customer happy with chicken wings and a nice
set of Hooters. Further it explores the raunchy bad boys being paid
handsomely to tell the world about their sexual exploits, online,
on film, and in popular press bestsellers. The book also contains
thought-provoking artwork by Nicola Bockelmann which focuses on the
permeable border between pornography and mainstream culture and
urges viewers to question everyday explicitness. Balancing a
popular culture approach and a strong analytic lens, Porn Chic will
engage a wide audience of readers interested in popular culture,
fashion, and gender studies.
Selected Readings in Human Sexuality provides students with a
carefully curated selection of readings that highlight specific
topics within the spectrum of human sexual behavior. The anthology
contains 10 readings that cover various topics, including
interracial and interethnic relationships, sexual harassment, human
trafficking, changes in sexual behavior throughout the lifespan,
and more. The readings have been selected to illustrate the
different ways in which human sexuality may be investigated,
including systematic reviews of existing literature, case studies,
and empirical research. The volume includes research on human
sexuality from various countries and cultures, including the
Netherlands, Canada, and China, to enrich conversations and provide
readers with diverse perspectives. Each reading is accompanied by
an introduction highlighting the importance of the reading and a
set of discussion prompts to facilitate further examination of the
topic. Selected Readings in Human Sexuality is designed to serve as
a supplementary reader for courses in human sexual behavior.
Challenging the Norms: A Guide to Counteract Rape Culture and
Sexual Assault in America provides readers with a greater
understanding of rape culture, the prevalence of sexual assault in
America, and interventions that can create a safer world in which
sexual relationships are healthy and consensual. Opening chapters
define rape culture and demonstrate how it manifests in the United
States, debunk rape myths, and explore the connection between
entitlement and rape. Additional chapters examine the process of
reporting rape, issues related to consent, and the pervasiveness of
date rape and acquaintance rape. Students read about the
relationship between rape, alcohol, and drugs; the differences
between casual sex and relationship sex; and relationships between
rape and Greek life, and rape and athletics. Closing chapters
explain why mediation should never be used in sexual assault cases,
why survivors don't report, the experience of survivors, and
strategies for education and prevention. Designed to break the
silence about rape and sexual assault on college campuses,
Challenging the Norms is an exemplary text for courses in criminal
justice, sexual assault, sexual assault investigation, and
contemporary social issues. It is also an excellent resource for
programs focused on sexual assault education and prevention.
If you are transgendered, the feeling of wanting your body to match
the sex you feel you are never goes away. For some, though,
especially those who grew up before trans people were widely out
and advocating for equality, these feelings were often
compartmentalized and rarely acted upon. Now that gender
reassignment has become much more commonplace, many of these people
may feel increasing pressure to finally undergo the procedures they
have always secretly wanted. Ken Koch was one of those people.
Married twice, a veteran, and a world traveler, a health scare when
he was sixty-three prompted him to acknowledge the feelings that
had plagued him since he was a small child. By undergoing a host of
procedures, he radically changed his appearance and became Anne
Koch. In the process though, Anne lost everything that Ken had
accomplished. She had to remake herself from the ground up. Hoping
to help other people in her age bracket who may be considering
transitioning, Anne describes the step by step procedures that she
underwent, and shares the cost to her personal life, in order to
show seniors that although it is never too late to become the
person you always knew you were, it is better to go into that new
life prepared for some serious challenges. Both a fascinating
memoir of a well-educated man growing up trans yet repressed in the
mid-twentieth century, and a guidebook to navigating the tricky
waters of gender reassignment as a senior, It Never Goes Away shows
how what we see in the television world of Transparent translates
in real life.
Men and Sex provides a comprehensive yet accessible account of male
sexuality by using the theoretical concept of the 'sexual script'
to illuminate different aspects of men's sexual behaviour. Graham
begins by discussing different theories of sexuality, before
providing a more detailed description of sexual script theory. This
proposes how male sexual behaviour can be explained as a result of
cultural influences modified by individual experience and
personality as well as by interaction with others. Individual
chapters detail the development of sexual scripts in childhood and
adolescence, masturbation, cultural influences on sexuality,
heterosexual behaviour, variations and problems in sexual
functioning, homosexual behaviour, transsexualism, procreative sex,
coercive sexual behaviour, the impact of physical and mental health
problems on sexuality, and sexuality and pornography. The
concluding chapter looks at the future of male sexuality. The book
makes a valuable contribution to the burgeoning literature on
masculinity studies.
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