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Sexual Fields
Adam Isaiah Green (Ed.)
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Description for Sexual Fields
Paperback. Coupling field theory with the ethnographic and theoretical expertise of some of the most important scholars of sexual life at work today, this book offers a game-changing approach that can revolutionize how sociologists will analyze and make sense of contemporary sexual life for years to come. Editor(s): Green, Adam Isaiah. Num Pages: 224 pages, 3 line drawings, 1 table. BIC Classification: JHBK5. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 340.
The rise of urbanization and mass communication and the decoupling of sexuality from reproduction and moral regulation have contributed to the late modern expansion of specialized erotic worlds catering to a variety of sexual tastes. Organized by appetites and dispositions related to race, ethnicity, class, gender, and age, these arenas of sexual exploration become sites of stratification and dominion wherein actors vie for partners, social significance, and esteem. These are what Adam Isaiah Green calls sexual fields, and to help us to navigate them, he offers a groundbreaking new framework. To build on the sexual fields framework, Green has gathered a distinguished group of scholars who together make a strong case for sexual field theory as the first systematic theoretical innovation since queer theory in the sociology of sexuality. Expanding on the work of Bourdieu, the contributors develop this distinctively sociological approach for analyzing collective sexual life, showing how these semiautonomous sites are where the sexual life of our society resides today. And by coupling field theory with the ethnographic and theoretical expertise of some of the most important scholars of sexual life at work today, Sexual Fields offers a game-changing approach that will revolutionize how sociologists will analyze and make sense of contemporary sexual life for years to come.
Product Details
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Weight
337g
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226084992
SKU
V9780226084992
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About Adam Isaiah Green (Ed.)
Adam Isaiah Green is associate professor of sociology at the University of Toronto. A native of New York City, he lives Toronto.
Reviews for Sexual Fields
In Adam Isaiah Green's introductory chapter, he lays out the evolution of his sexual fields formulation. This alone is worth the price of the book. But this volume also includes seven chapters written by real movers and shakers in the field of sexuality, each making interesting, substantive contributions. Sexual Fields is certainly a book that every scholar of sexuality should own, and I would not be surprised if this were to become one of the most cited volumes in the field of sexuality. (Verta Taylor, coauthor of Drag Queens at the 801 Cabaret)