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Sexualities research: Critical interjections, diverse methodologies, and practical applications
No full textHow is sexuality studied methodologically? How are we innovating, methodologically, in the study of sexuality? What impact, if any, has the increase in mixed methodologies had on the study of sexuality? Sexualities Research brings together original contributions by emerging and world-leading scholars of sexuality. Through this volume the authors seek to address how theoretical and methodological choices enable wider dissemination and social impact of sexualities research. Indeed, covering a diverse range of theoretical perspectives and methodologies to provide important new insights into human sexuality, the chapters cover an array of topics from the experience of researching sexuality, to using theories in new and innovative ways. With an international scope, Sexualities Research also builds on the re-emergence of the European Sociological Association Sexuality Research Network and asks important questions about the study of sexuality in contemporary societies against the background of political upheaval and economic troubles. Certainly, this collection shows the importance and vitality of sociological understandings of human sexuality in the twenty-first century. An enlightening volume consisting of a variety of case studies and theoretical research, Sexualities Research will appeal to undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as postdoctoral researchers who are interested in fields such as Sociology, LGBT/Queer Studies and Gender Studies
Reproducing Citizens: family, state and civil society
No full textWhilst the politics of reproduction have been at the heart of feminist struggles for over a century and a half, their analysis has not yet come to occupy a central place in the interdisciplinary study of citizenship. This volume takes up the challenge posed by Bryan Turner, when he noted "the absence of any systematic thinking about familial relations, reproduction and citizenship" (2008), and offers the first major global collection of work exploring this nexus of practices and political contestations.
The book brings together citizenship scholars from across Europe, the Americas, and Australia to develop feminist and queer analyses of the relationship between citizenship and reproduction, and to explore the ways in which citizenship is reproduced. Extending the foundational work of feminist political theorists and sociologists who have interrogated the public/private dichotomy on which traditional civic republican and liberal understandings of citizenship rest, the contributors examine the biological, sexual, and technological realities of natality, and the social realities of the intimate intergenerational material and affective labour that are generative of citizens, and that serve to reproduce membership of, and belonging to, states, nations, societies, and thus of "citizenship" itsel
Reproduction and citizenship/reproducing citizens: editorial introduction
No full textBook synopsis: Whilst the politics of reproduction have been at the heart of feminist struggles for over a century and a half, their analysis has not yet come to occupy a central place in the interdisciplinary study of citizenship. This volume takes up the challenge posed by Bryan Turner, when he noted "the absence of any systematic thinking about familial relations, reproduction and citizenship" (2008), and offers the first major global collection of work exploring this nexus of practices and political contestations.
The book brings together citizenship scholars from across Europe, the Americas, and Australia to develop feminist and queer analyses of the relationship between citizenship and reproduction, and to explore the ways in which citizenship is reproduced. Extending the foundational work of feminist political theorists and sociologists who have interrogated the public/private dichotomy on which traditional civic republican and liberal understandings of citizenship rest, the contributors examine the biological, sexual, and technological realities of natality, and the social realities of the intimate intergenerational material and affective labour that are generative of citizens, and that serve to reproduce membership of, and belonging to, states, nations, societies, and thus of "citizenship" itself.
This book was published as a special issue of Citizenship Studies
Medicalized Virilism under Scrutiny: expert knowledge on male sexual health in Italy
No full textThe “Viagra phenomenon” is the most visible, and most studied, expression of a broader global process of medicalization of male sexuality. Associating male health with self-control and the expression of sexual potency, this process is giving shape to a new public discourse on masculinity, taking the form of a medicalized virilism: legitimized by scientific bases, it restores the foundations of a naturalized notion of man and his sexuality.
Medical discourses have a crucial part in this process, setting male sexual health as a new public issue, and thereby constructing both the masculinity to be fixed and the new forms of medical expertise legitimized to treat it. By analyzing documentary material and interviews with medical experts in Italy, this article shows, however, that medical discourses are far from being just a cog in the medicalization machine. Medical discourses work at transmitting cultural scripts which reinforce normatively gendered expressions of sex focused on a phallocentric coital imperative and on a naturalized notion of male sexual desire, assumed as always present and unproblematic. Nevertheless, they also include elements of ambivalence, tension and problematization: an indication that the medicalization process, and the interpretive frames that it implies, are an object of possible redefinition not only by end-users – patients – but also by those actors, experts in the male sexual-health field, who are supposed to be the means of propagating and legitimizing it. By focussing on the plurality of accounts experts give for their clinical experience, we discuss which forms negotiations or challenges of medicalized frames take from within the medical field
Sexualities Research: Critical Interjections, Diverse Methodologies, and Practical Applications
No full textHow is sexuality studied methodologically? What methods are in use? How are we innovating, methodologically, in the study of sexuality? Many sexualities studies within the social sciences have been dominated by qualitative research. Yet, what impact, if any, has the increase in mixed methodologies had on the study of sexuality? Is sexuality research still largely defined by qualitative approaches? To what extent do we promote participants' engagement with our studies, in line with emancipatory research? And how can our theoretical and methodological choices enable wider dissemination and social impact? This volume?through case studies and theoretical work?seeks to address these questions
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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