Sociology of Sexualities

• A new chapter (Chapter 4) explores intersectionality across social class, place and space with sexuality.
• Updated and expanded discussions of the latest sociological research on sexuality and social justice movements regarding gender and sexuality are in every chapter. Topics include the impact of the #MeToo Movement, the Trump administration’s rollback of LGBTQ rights, and the epidemic of missing and murdered indigenous women.
• New sections discuss the science of monogamy, the intersections between sexuality and transgender and gender nonbinary individuals, sexuality and intersex individuals, corporations and their perspectives on LGBTQ rights, stratified reproduction as a theoretical framework, and more.

KEY FEATURES:

• This is a unique textbook that explores the ways sexuality operates in and through institutions such as sports, media, schools, workplaces, family, and religion.
• Focuses not only on the social construction of sexuality but also on the sexual status hierarchy, emphasizing the privileges heterosexual and cisgender individuals experience and the discrimination sexual minorities face.
• Explores the organized opposition to discrimination, demonstrating to students the misconception that progress is “inevitable” and, instead, is the result of decades of organized activism.
• The text discusses a range of social problems and inequalities, including research on sexual assault, rape, pornography, sex trafficking, child sexual abuse, prison sex, intimate partner violence within same-sex relationships, and sexuality and militarism.
• Global/transnational perspectives on sexuality help students understand sexuality as a social construction that changes across time and place.
• The text includes chapters on the science of sexuality, from early sexologists to queer theory; coverage of issues facing transgender people; an exploration of sexual health, disability and sexuality, and sexually transmitted infections; and on reproduction.