Sociologists are increasingly aware that analyses of social life must include a consideration of how the social may be structured by the sexual. In turn, this insight is contributing to a shift in understandings of sociology. This volume - drawn from papers from the 1994 British Sociological Association Annual Conference on 'Sexualities in Social Context' - brings together a range of writers who are contributing to this exciting new agenda. Various aspects of social life - including employment, family life, representations, politics, identities and the workings of the law - are considered, in terms of how sexuality shapes their organization and they shape sexuality. In so doing a series of ongoing and new controversies and debates are confronted, from the relationship of feminism to prostitution to the constitution of the self in late modernity.

Zusammenfassung
Various aspects of social life - including employment, family life, representations, politics, identities and the workings of the law - are considered, in terms of how sexuality shapes their organization and they shape sexuality.

Inhalt
Acknowledgements - Notes on Contributors - Introduction; L.Adkins & V.Merchant - PART 1: POWER AND CONSENT - Heterosexuality as a Problem for Feminist Theory; S.Jackson - Sinking into His Arms...Arms into His Sink: Heterosexuality and Feminism Revisited; J.VanEvery - The Social Construction of Consent Revisited; L.Jamieson - PART 2: IDENTITIES - Beyond Victim or Survivor: Sexual Violence, Identity and Feminist Theory and Practice; L.Kelly, S.Burton & L.Regan - Genital Identities: An Idiosyncratic Foray into the Gendering of Sexualities; T.Wilton - Irish Masculinities and Sexualities in England; M.Mac an Ghaill - Beyond the Predatory Male: The Diversity of Young Glaswegian Men's Discourses to Describe Heterosexual Relationships; D.Wight - PART 3: SEXUAL EXCHANGE - Organised Bodies: Gender, Sexuality and Embodiment in Contemporary Organisations; A.Witz, S.Halford & M.Savage - Feminist Debates on Prostitution; M.McIntosh - The Cultural, the Sexual, and the Gendering of the Labour Market; L.Adkins & C.Lury - Index