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Sexualities
Jean . Ed(S): Carabine
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Description for Sexualities
paperback. What constitutes "normal" sexuality is a highly debated and contentious issue. This text explores and examines the choices that we make about our sexuality, how these can transform our personal lives and how social policy informs and responds to such choices. Editor(s): Carabine, Jean. Series: Personal Lives and Social Policy Series. Num Pages: 179 pages, Illustrations, 1 port. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JMU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 246 x 189 x 13. Weight in Grams: 476.
Sexualities: Personal Lives and Social Policy explores the choices that we make about our sexuality and how these can transform our personal lives. It analyses how social policy informs and responds to such choices through an examination of normative assumptions about sexuality and its role in forming, regulating and constituting welfare subjects, discourses, theories, provisions and practices. Drawing upon a number of analytical tools and theoretical perspectives, the authors illustrate that sexuality is simultaneously central and marginal to the concerns of social policy. They place particular emphasis on social policy as a site of regulation that restricts and constrains our ... Read more
Sexualities: Personal Lives and Social Policy explores the choices that we make about our sexuality and how these can transform our personal lives. It analyses how social policy informs and responds to such choices through an examination of normative assumptions about sexuality and its role in forming, regulating and constituting welfare subjects, discourses, theories, provisions and practices. Drawing upon a number of analytical tools and theoretical perspectives, the authors illustrate that sexuality is simultaneously central and marginal to the concerns of social policy. They place particular emphasis on social policy as a site of regulation that restricts and constrains our ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Policy Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
179
Condition
New
Series
Personal Lives and Social Policy Series
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
Bristol, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781861345189
SKU
V9781861345189
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About Jean . Ed(S): Carabine
Dr Jean Carabine is Lecturer in Social Policy at The Open University. She is editor of the journal, Critical Social Policy, and has written extensively on the intersection between discourses of sexuality and social policy.
Reviews for Sexualities
"... an excellent resource with up-to-date facts, good links and resources, and very helpful key word summaries, aims and objectives for the student. This text is highly commended, both for courses on social policy and those dealing with the sociology of sexuality more broadly." Sexualities "... an enlightening review of how social policies influence everday lives, even in the privacy ... Read more