Sex Matters

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Sex Matters by Otto Neuberg, under the Education & Reference category, delves into the complex intersections of biology, gender, society, and individual experiences. The book examines how these elements influence our understanding of sex and gender, offering insights into the broader societal implications. It is both informative and reflective, encouraging readers to consider the nuanced dimensions of human development and identity.
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Sex Matters

A sex-positive reader that presents sex as a social issue.

Description

This popular reader has a strong sociological focus, highlighting the ways that social institutions and the individuals within them shape our understanding of sexuality and influence our behaviours, attitudes, and identities.

The readings, 50 percent of which are new to the Fifth Edition, cover a diverse range of sexual experiences, including new pieces on asexuality, online porn, and PrEP for HIV prevention. The editors mix qualitative and quantitative empirical pieces, sexual narratives, and articles from the popular press.

Sex Matters is a sex-positive reader that presents sex as a social issue.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780393623581

Publisher: WW Norton & Co

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 15 November 2018

Country: United States

Imprint: WW Norton & Co

Edition: Fifth Edition

Contributors:

Edited by Elroi J. Windsor
Edited by Mindy Stombler
Edited by Dawn M. Baunach
Edited by Elisabeth O. Burgess
Edited by Wendy Simonds

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 28.0mm

Width: 191.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 1100g

Pages: 752

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Education & Reference Non-Fiction

About the Author

Dawn M. Baunach is an associate professor of sociology at Georgia State University. Her research interests include sexuality and gender inequalities, statistics and methodologies, social demography, and the sociology of food. She is currently studying various sexual attitudes and behaviors, including same-sex marriage, sexual prejudices, sexual disclosure, and bullying.

Elisabeth O. Burgess is the director of the Gerontology Institute and an associate professor of gerontology and sociology at Georgia State University. Her research interests focus on changes in intimate relations over the life course, including involuntary celibacy, sexuality and aging, and intergenerational relationships. In addition, Dr. Burgess writes on theories of aging and attitudes toward older adults.

Wendy Simonds is a professor of sociology at Georgia State University. She is the author of Abortion at Work: Ideology and Practice in a Feminist Clinic and Women and Self-Help Culture: Reading Between the Lines; coauthor with Barbara Katz Rothman of Centuries of Solace: Expressions of Maternal Grief in Popular Literature, and coauthor with Barbara Katz Rothman and Bari Meltzer Norman of Laboring On: Birth in Transition in the United States. She is currently the president of SSSP.

Elroi J. Windsor is an assistant professor of sociology at Salem College in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and incoming chair of SSSP’s Sexual Behavior, Politics, and Communities division. Windsor’s teaching and research interests include gender, sexuality, health, and embodiment. Most recently, Windsor researched the disparate regulation of transgender and cisgender consumers of surgical body modification.