The Routledge Companion to Gender, Sexuality, and Culture is an intersectional, diverse, and comprehensive collection essential for students and researchers examining the intersection of sexuality and culture.
The book seeks to reflect established theories while anticipating future developments within gender, sexuality, and cultural studies. A range of international contributors, including leaders in their field, provide insights into dominant and marginalised subjects. Comprising over 30 chapters, the volume is comprised into five thematic parts: Identifying, Embodying, Making, Doing, and Resisting. Topics explored include homonormativity, poetry, video games, menstruation, fatness, disability, sex toys, sex work, BDSM, dating apps, body modifications, and politics and activism.
This is an important and unique collection aimed at scholars, researchers, activists, and practitioners across cultural studies, gender studies and sociology.
Author(s): Emma Rees
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 475
City: London
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Figures
Contributors
Introduction: Genders, Sexualities, Cultures
Part 1 Identifying
1 Destabilising Cisgender
Notes
Bibliography
2 Post-Heteronormative Saturation: What Happens After Romance
Romance and Critical Contexts
Romantic Resistance
Creating the Receptive Love Interest
Character and Genre Romance
Call to Action and Representation: Post-Heteronormative Saturation
Life After Post-Heteronormative Saturation
Notes
Bibliography
3 Class and the Sociology of Homosexuality
Theorising Sexuality
The ‘Social Mirror Stage’
Inverts and Perverts
Back to the Future: Invert Sexuality and Alien Sexuality
Conclusion: Closing the Circle
Notes
Bibliography
4 How Is Gender Dysphoria ‘Treated’?: Signposts and Hazards On the Patient Journey
Gateways: Primary Care
Controversies Around Treatment for Children
Next Steps: Assessment and Treatment
Surgery
Gender Dysphoria and What Came Before
The Bigger Picture
Notes
Bibliography
5 Imagined Others: Paths of Identity, Alterity, and Exclusion in LGBTQIA+ Communities
Be(com)ing
Imagined Selves, Consumed Body
Beauty That Matters
Belonging
Notes
Bibliography
6 Virtual Sexual Identities: Embodied Aspirations, Tensions, and Lessons From the Bumble Dating App
Methodology
Bumble Inverts the Dating Script
When the Hive Falls Short
Bumble Has Libido Issues
The Bumble Paradox
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
7 Time, Age, and Sexuality: The Construction of Non-Normative Identities in Later Life
Stories From the Past
The Construction of Generational Belonging in the Present
No Future for the Old and the Queer
Age, Sexuality, and Belonging to the Future
Notes
Bibliography
Part 2 Embodying
8 When the Phallus Is a ‘Dick’: The Cultural/material Turn to Breasts
Breasts as Cultural Fixation
Disrupting the Phallic Economy: Laying the Ground for Breast as Assemblage
Breasts Popping Up in Culture
Breasts as Art
Breasts as Assemblage
Breasts Making Art
Breasts as a Politics of Assemblage
Conclusion: The Final Tit Bits
Notes
Bibliography
9 Dismembered Nation, Dismembered Body: Negotiating Gender and Disability in the Bangladesh Liberation War, 1971
Notes
Bibliography
10 ‘Women Don’t Own Sexuality’: How ‘Coloured’ Women in Cape Town Embody, Navigate, and Resist Sexual Shame
Ordentlikheid: A Cultural and Gendered Ideology
Regulating ‘Coloured’ Female Sexualities
Unpacking Aqeelah’s Pleasure Narrative
(Un)silencing Sexualities
(Un)learning Sexual Shame
(Un)ashamed Sexual Bodies
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
11 Fat Women Have Bodies (Two): The Contradictions of Fatness
Fat Body as (non-)fiction
Fatness in Machado’s Prose
Notes
Bibliography
12 Expanding Menstrual Normativity: Artistic Interventions in the Representation of Menstruation
Artistic Expression and Expansion
Performative Printmaking
Shifting Cycles, Fluid Genders
Artworks
Notes
Bibliography
13 Clitoral Matter: On the Politics of Sexual Pleasures in Western European Cultures
Notes
Bibliography
14 Crip Is the New Queer?: A Feminist Analysis of Spanish and Activist Representations of Disability and Sexuality
Disabled Sexuality Studies Work
Spanish Activism Becomes Sexual
Yes, We Fuck (YWF!): The Disabled Body as a Dissident Body
I Want Sex Too (IWS): The Disabled Body as an Object for Rehabilitation
Conclusions
Notes
Bibliography
15 Who Is ‘Drunk Me’?: Women’s Embodiment of Drunkenness as a Relation to the Self
Framing the Problem
Who Is ‘Drunk Me’?
The Woman-Drink Assemblage
Notes
Bibliography
Part 3 Making
16 Male Violence and Feminine Spaces: Bringing Men Into the Picture in Campaigns That Challenge Men’s Violence Against ...
About the Campaigns
The Myth of the Masculine Public / Feminine Private
Absent Men and Domestic Scenes
The Boundary Does Not Hold
Bringing Men Into the Picture
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
17 Body Modifications and the Limits of Gender Identity in Video Games
Intersecting But Different
Virtually Diverse
Tattooing a Man: The Mass Effect Trilogy
Nothing Is Fixed: Secret World Legends
The Case of Social Vacuum: The Sims Series
Conclusions
Notes
Bibliography
18 The Tattooed Feminine Body: Considerations for Sexuality and British Culture
Situating Femininity, Tattoos, and Culture
Pervasive Notions of Normative Femininity
Tattoos as Embedded in a Classed Culture
Conclusions to Be Drawn
Notes
Bibliography
19 Cutting Up Control: Dismembering Heteronormativity in Dodie Bellamy’s Feminist Experimental Poetry
Theorising Cut-Up Methods in Literature
Theorising Feminist Experimental Writing
Dismembering Heteronormativity in Cunt-Ups
Conclusions
Notes
Bibliography
20 Looking Back to Pinar Kür’s Fiction: Reading the Female Body as a Site of Resistance in Turkish Literature
Notes
Bibliography
21 The Ace Art of Failure: Asexuality and BoJack Horseman
Asexual Representation
Reactions to Asexual Representation in BoJack Horseman
The Story of Asexual Identity
Unproductive Asexuality
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
22 Taking a Walk On the Queer Side: Speculative Comics (De)constructing Queer Identity
Queer: The Final Frontier
Through the Gutter
Unicorns and Spaceships
What If? Speculations of ODY-C
Conclusions: Imagining a Future
Notes
Bibliography
Part 4 Doing
23 Learning Consent Through Cuddle Parties: Developing Prefigurative Scripts for New Forms of Consent-Driven Intimacy
What Is a ‘Cuddle Party’?
Sexual Scripts and Consent Negotiation
Using Cuddle as a Bait to Challenge Current Scripts of Consent
Notes
Bibliography
24 Waterboard Me Real Good: Torture, Consent, and Trust in BDSM
Defining Torture
Kinky Slave Markets and SM Nazis
(Non)consensual (Non)violence
Torture Is a Relationship
Notes
Bibliography
25 Coming of Age: The Alluring Development of Sex Toys
Sex Toys in the 20th Century
Sex Toys as Product
Sex Toys’ Design
Looking at Trends and the Future
Critical Aspects
Conclusions
Notes
Bibliography
26 The Politics of PREP: Stigma, Trust, and Solidarity
A Critical History of HIV Prevention
The Advent of AIDS Activism
The Options for HIV Treatment and Prevention
The Medical Risks and Benefits of PrEP
A Relational Analysis of Post-PrEP Culture
PrEP-related Stigmas
Trust in MSM Relationships
Solidarity in MSM Communities
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
27 Sex Work Is (Also) a Male Thing: The Long Journey Towards Legitimisation
From Pathology to Normalisation: A Social History of Male Sex Work
Male Sex Work in the 21st Century: The Battle for the Legitimisation of a Stigmatised Category
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
28 Queer Ecologies of Love: Ecosexuality and the Politics of Nonhuman Desire
‘Here Come the Ecosexuals!’
Un/natural Passions
Queer Ecologies of Coal
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
29 Sexualities in Prison: Rules and Behaviours
A Growing Field of Research
Laws, Rules, and Policies On Sexuality in Prison
Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
Heterosexual and Homosexual Behaviours
Non-consensual Sex
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Part 5 Resisting
30 Love What You Do (And It’ll Become Increasingly Difficult to Agitate for Workplace Rights): Sex, Work, and Rejecting ...
Notes
Bibliography
31 My Body, My Rights: Sex Work, Feminism, and Syndicalism in Argentina
Sex Workers, Unionism, and Peronism
Identifying as Feminists
Notes
Bibliography
32 Pornographic Provocation in First Wave British Punk
Notes
Bibliography
33 FtM Crossdressing in Contemporary Japan: The Danso Phenomenon as Caught Between Social Constraint and the Wish for ...
Who Are Danso?
Gender Roles in Contemporary Japan
The Relevance of the Danso Movement
Is Danso a Revolution?
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
34 Resisting and Healing: Embodied Feminist Research as a Sexual Violence Survivor
A Feminist ‘Spring’; a Feminist ‘Snap’
Vulnerabilities and Belongings
‘I Believe You, Sister (And I Am Becoming Your Chorus)’
Healing Intimacies: Bertsos and ‘Tuppersex’
A Tribute to the Chorus
Notes
Bibliography
35 Sexuality and Self-Tracking Apps: Reshaping Gender Relations and Sexual and Reproductive Practices
Gender Identities and Digital Technologies
Perspectives On Gender and Mediated Lives
Self-tracking Apps and Sexual and Reproductive Practices
Concluding Notes
Notes
Bibliography
36 On Faggots and Faggoting: Trash-Talk and Reclaiming the Abject Through Art Practice
Notes
Bibliography
37 (Un)doing Relationships: Boundary Drawing and Queer(ing) Ways of Relating
Who Are We?
Developing Relationships
Discerning Relationships
Queering Relationships
Individualising Relationships
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
