Sexual Fields: Toward a Sociology of Collective Sexual Life

ISBN 10 : 022608499X ISBN 13 : 9780226084992

Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 2013

Synopsis

In the late modern period, an unprecedented expansion of specialized erotic worlds has transformed the domain of intimate life. Organized by appetites and dispositions related to race, ethnicity, class, gender, and age, these erotic worlds are arenas of sexual exploration but, also, sites of stratification and dominion wherein actors vie for partners, social significance, and esteem. These are what Adam Isaiah Green calls sexual fields, which represent a semblance of social life for which 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, Green and contributors develop this distinctively sociological approach for analyzing collective sexual life, where much of the sexual life of our society resides today. 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 analyze and make sense of contemporary sexual life for years to come.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Adam Isaiah Green is associate professor of sociology at the University of Toronto. A native of New York City, he lives in Toronto.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Chicago Press
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 022608499X
• ISBN 13: 9780226084992
• Reliure: Impression à la demande
• Nombre de pages: 217
• Éditeur: Green Adam Isaiah
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