Companion to Sexuality Studies (eBook)

Nancy A. Naples is Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Connecticut, USA. Her publications include over fifty book chapters and journal articles in numerous interdisciplinary and sociological journals. To highlight a few of her works, Nancy Naples is Editor-in-Chief of the five-volume Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality Studies (2016) and she is author of Feminism and Method: Ethnography, Discourse Analysis, and Activist Research (2003) and Grassroots Warriors: Community Work, Activist Mothering and the War on Poverty (1998).

Editors vii

Notes on Contributors ix

Acknowledgments xv

Part I Introduction 1

1 The Diversity and Academic Institutionalization of Sexuality Studies 3
Nancy A. Naples

Part II Theoretical and Methodological Diversity 19

2 Sexology 21
Agnieszka Koscianska

3 Sexualities in Historical Comparative Perspective 40
Mathew Kuefler

4 Postcolonial Sexualities 61
Vrushali Patil and Jyoti Puri

5 Queer Theory 79
J. Michael Ryan

6 Queer Methodologies and Social Science 95
Stuti Das

7 Queer Pedagogies 122
Leigh Potvin

Part III Health, Science, and Psychology 141

8 Sexuality, Science, and Technology 143
Donna J. Drucker

9 Sexuality and Socialization 160
Leah R. Warner, Emily A. Leskinen, and Janelle Leyva

10 LGBTQ Reproduction and Parenting 179
Kate Luxion

Part IV Sexuality and Institutions 203

11 Sexuality and Religion 205
Kelsy Burke and Brandi Woodell

12 Sexuality Education 225
Louisa Allen

13 Sexuality, Employment, and Discrimination 242
Patti Giuffre and Courtney Caviness

14 Commodification of Intimacy and Sexuality 258
Julia Meszaros

Part V Popular Culture 279

15 Sexuality and Popular Culture 281
Diane Grossman

16 LGBT Literature 299
Julie Beaulieu

17 Queer Comics and LGBT in Comparative Perspective 318
Helis Sikk

Part VI Citizenship, Policy, and Law 335

18 Sexual Citizenship in Comparative Perspective 337
Carol Johnson and Vera Mackie

19 Sexuality and Migration 357
Shweta M. Adur

20 Sexuality and Criminal Justice 371
Sharon Hayes and Cristina Khan

21 Sexual Harassment Policy in the US and Comparative Perspective 389
Jennifer Ann Drobac

22 Sex Work and Sex Trafficking 409
Kamala Kempadoo and Elya M. Durisin

Part VII Human Rights and Social Justice Movements 427

23 Sexual Rights and Globalization 429
Shweta M. Adur

24 The Global LGBT Workplace Equality Movement 445
Apoorva Ghosh

25 Reproductive Justice 464
Michele Eggers-Barison and Crystal M. Hayes

Index 482