Introducing the New Sexuality Studies

<p><em>Introducing the New Sexuality Studies: Original Essays</em> is an innovative reader-friendly collection of essays that introduces the field of sexuality studies to undergraduate students. Examining the social cultural and historical dimensions of sexuality this collection is designed to serve as a comprehensive yet accessible textbook for sexuality courses at the undergraduate level. The fourth edition adds 51 new essays whilst retaining 33 of the most popular essays from previous editions.</p><p>It features perspectives that are intersectional transnational sex positive and attentive to historically marginalized groups along multiple axes of inequality including gender race class ability body size religious identity age and of course sexuality. Essays explore how a wide variety of social institutions including medicine religion the state and education shape sexual desires behaviors and identities. Sources of and empirical research on oppression are discussed along with modes of resistance activism and policy change.</p><p>The fourth edition also adds new user-friendly features for students and instructors. Keywords are italicized and defined and each chapter concludes with review questions to help students ascertain their comprehension of key points. There is also an online annotated table of contents to help readers identify key ideas and concepts at a glance for each chapter.</p>