The sexual self
Subtitle: the construction of sexual scripts
By: Michael Kimmel, editor.
Contributors: Kimmel, Michael S.
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Nashville, TN
Language: eng
Number of pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9780826515582; 9780826515599
Subjects: Gagnon, John H.; Sex -- Social aspects.; Sex (Psychology); Communication in sex.; Identity (Psychology); Sex role.; Sexology.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: John Gagnon and the sexual self / Michael Kimmel; title: The sexual self in late modernity / Stevi Jackson; title: Queers, bodies, and postmodern sexualities : a note on revisiting the "sexual" in symbolic interactionism / Ken Plummer; title: In search of sexual subjectivities : exploring the sociological construction of sexual selves / Rebecca F. Plante; title: Friendship, sex, and masculinity / Peter M. Nardi; title: Scripting the sex : fantasy, narrative, and sexual scripts in pornographic films / Jeffrey Escoffier; title: The social construction of heterosexuality / Pepper Schwartz; title: Shapes of desire / Arlene Stein; title: "It's less work for us and it shows us she has good taste" : masculinity, sexual initiation, and contemporary sexual scripts / Shari L. Dworkin and Lucia F. O'Sullivan; title: Relationship innovation in male couples / Barry D. Adam; title: Miscommunication and misinterpretations : men's scripts about sexual communication and unwanted sex in interactions with women / David Wyatt Seal, Lucia F. O'Sullivan, and Anke A. Ehrhardt; title: Sex, intimacy, and family life in the United States / Edward O. Laumann, Jenna Mahay, and Yoosik Youm; title: Sexual scripting and self-process : intersubjectivity among gay men / David Knapp Whittier and Rita M. Melendez; title: Sexual development, social oppression, and local culture / Gilbert Herdt; title: Sexuopharmacology : a fateful new element in sexual scripts / Leonore Tiefer; title: "The badlands of desire" : sex research, cultural scenarios, and the politics of knowledge production / Steven Epstein; title: Postscript: The never-ending conversation : two interviews / Gunter Schmidt; title: John H. Gagnon: selected publications.