Author Description

Words, Freud Once Wrote, Are Magic. Nowhere Have Words Been More Magical Than In The Writing Of Sexuality. Through Words And Concepts We Learn What Is Good Or Bad, Pleasurable Or Painful, Significant And Insignificant. The Terms We Use About Sexuality Do Not Simply Describe Something Out There. They Help Shape What Sexuality Is. The Languages Of Sexuality Offers Concise And Incisive Essays On Key Words And Concepts Which Have Played A Significant Role In Shaping Our Understanding Of Contemporary Sexualities And Intimacies. Nearly A Hundred Essays Illuminate The Terms Abjection Abortion Agency Aids -- Barebacking Bisexuality Blackmail Bodies -- Childhood Sexuality Choice Closet Commodification -- Community Consent Cosmopolitanism Cybersex -- Desire Disability -- Essentialism -- Families Fateful Moments Femininity Feminism -- Fetish Friendship Fundamentalism -- Gay Gay Liberation Gender Globalization -- Great Transition -- Habitus Heterosexuality Homophobia Homosexuality -- Human Sexual Rights Hybridity -- Individualization Informalization Intersectionality Intimacy -- Lesbian Love -- Marriage Masculinity Masturbation Melancholia -- Mixedness Moral Panic Multiculturalism -- Neoliberalism -- Paedophilia Perversion Pleasure Polyamory -- Pornography Prostitution Psychoanalysis -- Queer -- Recognition Reflexivity Regulation Relationality -- Religion Reproductive Technologies Risk -- Sado-masochism Safer Sex Same-sex Marriage Secularization -- Sex Addiction Sex Tourism Sexology -- Sexual Citizenship Sexual Cultures Sexual Diversity Sexual Ethics -- Sexual Identity Sexual Orientation Sexual Scripts Sexual Stories -- Sexual Violence Sexuality Sexualization Social Capital -- Social Constructionism Space Subject -- Toleration Trafficking Transgender -- Viagra. Jeffrey Weeks. Description Based Upon Print Version Of Record. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. English