Sexualities: Past Reflections, Future Directions

1. Introduction
Sally Hines, Yvette Taylor

Part 1. Moving Methods, Moving Theories? Advancing Approaches

2. Reflexive Sexualities and Reflexive Sociology
Brian Heaphy

3. The Affect of Methods
Jacqui Gabb

4. To Pass Without Hindrance: Citizenship, Community, Diversity — or Death
Yvette Taylor

5. Telling Personal Stories in Academic Research Publications: Reflexivity, Intersubjectivity and Contextual Positionalities
Christian Klesse

6. Born This Way: Congenital Heterosexuals and the Making of Heteroflexibility
Jane Ward

7. Straight Indiscretions or Queer Hypocrites: Public Negotiations of Identity and Sexual Behaviour
Eve Shapiro

8. The Romantic Imaginary: Compulsory Coupledom and Single Existence
Eleanor Wilkinson

Part 2. Lived Experiences: Equality and Diversity

9. Reimagining Families of Choice
Rachel Jones-Wild

10. The Politics of Sexuality in Portugal: Confronting Tradition, Enacting Change
Ana Cristina Santos

11. Stirring It Up — Again: A Politics of Difference in the New Millennium
Sally Hines

12. Erotic Care: A Queer Feminist Bathhouse and the Power of Attentive Action
Davina Cooper

13. ‘Shanghai Goes West’: A Story of the Development of a Commercial Gay Scene in China
Camila Bassi

14. A Radical Opening: An Exploration of Lesbian/Queer BDSM Public Sexual Cultures
Corie Hammers

15. ‘Sexing Up’ Bodily Aesthetics: Notes towards Theorizing Trans Sexuality
Zowie Davy, Eliza Steinbock

16. Past, Present and Future: Exploring the Sexual Identities of People with Learning Difficulties
Ruth Garbutt

Keywords: Social Sciences, Gender Studies, Feminism, Sexual Behavior, Popular Science in Medicine and Health, Cultural and Media Studies, general, Sociology of the Body