Sex for Life
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Sex for Life

From Virginity to Viagra, How Sexuality Changes Throughout Our Lives

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Sex for Life

From Virginity to Viagra, How Sexuality Changes Throughout Our Lives

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Sexual beliefs, behaviors and identities are interwoven throughout our lives, from childhood to old age. An edited collection of original empirical contributions united through its use of a distinctive, cutting-edge theoretical framework, Sex for Life critically examines sexuality across the entire lifespan. Rooted in diverse disciplines and employing a wide range of research methods, the chapters explore the sexual and social transitions that typically map to broad life stages, as well as key age-graded physiological transitions, such as puberty and menopause, while drawing on the latest developments in gender, sexuality, and life course studies. Sex for Life explores a wide variety of topics, including puberty, sexual initiation, coming out, sexual assault, marriage/life partnering, disability onset, immigration, divorce, menopause, and widowhood, always attending to the social locations – including gender, race, ethnicity, and social class – that shape, and are shaped by, sexuality. The empirical work collected in Sex for Life ultimately speaks to important public policy issues, such as sex education, aging societies, and the increasing politicization of scientific research. Accessibly written, the contributions capture the interplay between individual lives and the ever-changing social-historical context, facilitating new insight not only into people’s sexual lives, but also into ways of studying them, ultimately providing a fresh, new perspective on sexuality.

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Publisher
NYU Press
Year
2012
ISBN
9780814723821
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Sociology
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Part I. Studying Sexualities over the Life Course
  7. Introduction: Sexualities over the Life Course: The Development of a Perspective
  8. 1 Studying Gendered Sexualities over the Life Course: A Conceptual Framework
  9. Part II. Sexualities in Childhood and Adolescence
  10. Part III. Sexualities from Young Adulthood through Midlife
  11. Part IV. Turning Points throughout the Life Course
  12. Part V. Sexualities from Midlife to Later Life
  13. Bibliography
  14. About the Contributors
  15. Index