Long Slow Burn

Sexuality and Social Science

Kath Weston

• Editorial: Routledge
• Año: 2013
• ISBN:
  9781135208820
• Edición: 1
• Categoría: Arte
• Categoría: Cultura popolare nell'arte

Kath Weston's powerful collection of essays, Long, Slow Burn, challenges the preconception that queer studies is the brainchild of the humanities and argues that social science has been talking about sex all along. To deny this one would have to overlook Kinsey's pioneering sex research in the 1950s, or the psychiatrist Evelyn Hooker's pathbreaking study of homosexuality, but also in the "sex talk" that lies at the heart of classic debates on kinship, inequality, cognition, and other foundational topics in the social sciences. What is different now, Weston claims, is the way sexuality has been isolated from other contemporary issues. Not content with its ghettoization as a contained subfield, Weston refuses to draw an artificial line around sexuality.

Índice

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• The Bubble, The Burn, and The Simmer
• 1. Get Thee to a Big City
• 2. Forever is a Long Time
• 3. Made to Order
• 4. Production as Means, Production as Metaphor
• 5. Sexuality, Class, and Conflict in a Lesbian Workplace
• 6. Theory, Theory, Who’s Got the Theory?
• 7. Lesbian/Gay Studies in the House of Anthropology
• 8. Requiem for a Street Fighter
• 9. The Virtual Anthropologist
• Notes
• References
• Permissions
• Index