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Sexualities: Past Reflections, Future Directions

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 Introduction
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    Chapter 2 Reflexive Sexualities and Reflexive Sociology
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    Chapter 3 The Affect of Methods
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    Chapter 4 Sexualities: Past Reflections, Future Directions
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    Chapter 5 Telling Personal Stories in Academic Research Publications: Reflexivity, Intersubjectivity and Contextual Positionalities
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    Chapter 6 Born This Way: Congenital Heterosexuals and the Making of Heteroflexibility
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    Chapter 7 Straight Indiscretions or Queer Hypocrites: Public Negotiations of Identity and Sexual Behaviour
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    Chapter 8 The Romantic Imaginary: Compulsory Coupledom and Single Existence
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    Chapter 9 Reimagining Families of Choice
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    Chapter 10 The Politics of Sexuality in Portugal: Confronting Tradition, Enacting Change
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    Chapter 11 Stirring It Up — Again: A Politics of Difference in the New Millennium
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    Chapter 12 Erotic Care: A Queer Feminist Bathhouse and the Power of Attentive Action
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    Chapter 13 ‘Shanghai Goes West’: A Story of the Development of a Commercial Gay Scene in China
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    Chapter 14 A Radical Opening: An Exploration of Lesbian/Queer BDSM Public Sexual Cultures
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    Chapter 15 ‘Sexing Up’ Bodily Aesthetics: Notes towards Theorizing Trans Sexuality
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    Chapter 16 Past, Present and Future: Exploring the Sexual Identities of People with Learning Difficulties
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Chapter title
The Romantic Imaginary: Compulsory Coupledom and Single Existence
Chapter number 8
Book title
Sexualities: Past Reflections, Future Directions
Published in
Genders and Sexualities in the Social Sciences, January 2012
DOI 10.1057/9781137002785_8
Book ISBNs
978-1-349-33126-0, 978-1-137-00278-5
Authors

Eleanor Wilkinson, Wilkinson, Eleanor

Editors

Sally Hines, Yvette Taylor

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Unknown 10 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 2 20%
Other 1 10%
Lecturer > Senior Lecturer 1 10%
Student > Ph. D. Student 1 10%
Researcher 1 10%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 4 40%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 4 40%
Arts and Humanities 1 10%
Unknown 5 50%
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