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By Lisa Adkins, Vicki Merchant

ISBN-10: 0312160240

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Sociologists are more and more conscious that analyses of social lifestyles needs to comprise a attention of the way the social will be dependent by way of the sexual. In flip, this perception is contributing to a shift in understandings of sociology. This quantity - drawn from papers from the 1994 British Sociological organization Annual convention on 'Sexualities in Social Context' - brings jointly more than a few writers who're contributing to this interesting new schedule. a variety of features of social existence - together with employment, family members lifestyles, representations, politics, identities and the workings of the legislations - are thought of, by way of how sexuality shapes their association and so they form sexuality. In so doing a sequence of ongoing and new controversies and debates are faced, from the connection of feminism to prostitution to the structure of the self in past due modernity.

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Perhaps because of this, this research is also never discussed in debates about heterosexuality. A recent conference paper by Becky Rosa, a radical lesbian feminist, on lesbian anti-monogamy indicates some of the issues which may be important to an understanding of the links between heterosexuality as a sexual identity and as a social identity. Through an examination of the importance of couples and monogamy in the separatist lesbian community, she demonstrates the strength of cultural connections between sexual practices and domestic arrangements through monogamy.

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