Sexual (Dis)Orientation
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Sexual (Dis)Orientation

Gender, Sex, Desire and Self-Fashioning

  1. English
  2. PDF
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Sexual (Dis)Orientation

Gender, Sex, Desire and Self-Fashioning

About this book

Tamsin Wilton interviewed close to a hundred women in order to understand how we go about constructing a sexual identity as 'lesbian' or 'heterosexual'. How do women experience desire? What are the differences between men and women as sexual partners? How do desire, pleasure, intimacy, gender and morality become part of women's sense of self? Asking these, and other questions, this study breaks through the stand-off between essentialists and constructionists to propose a fresh re-thinking of the desiring self.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgements
  4. Introduction: What's All This About? Comments on Method and Language
  5. 1 Of Models and Muddles: Disorientating Theories of Sexuality
  6. 2 Declaration of Self-Interest: Epistemological and Methodological Conundrums
  7. 3 What is Sex? Asking the Impossible Question
  8. 4 Telling the Difference: Desire, Safety and Sameness
  9. 5 Haunted by the Gynander: Disruptive Genders
  10. 6 Stand by Your Man? Telling Heterosexual Stories
  11. 7 Your Mum's an Oxymoron: Sexuality and Reproductivity
  12. 8 The Lesbian Vanishes? Notes for a New Sociology of the Erotic
  13. Appendix
  14. Notes
  15. References
  16. Index