{"product_id":"cosmopolitan-sexualities-9780745671000","title":"Cosmopolitan Sexualities","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow are we to live with the wide varieties of sexuality and gender found across the rapidly changing global order? Whilst some countries have legislated in favour of same-sex marriage and the United Nations makes declarations about gender and sexual equality, many countries across the world employ punitive responses to such differences.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Plummer has given us a new sexology for our age… Warning us not to take our stereotypes for granted, he takes us through sexualities in China, in Africa and in Middle Eastern societies, and organises sexualities into global zones, regional discrepancies and local eruptions.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eTimes Higher Education \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Ken Plummer's new work on sexualities is a carefully constructed book designed to captivate students and scholars with an interest in sexuality studies...a thoroughly enjoyable read which leaves the reader with a comprehensive knowledge of sexualities and a hopeful perspective for a humanistic world.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJames Pickles, Network Review \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This is a book of deep knowledge and passionate commitment. It is the culmination of a lifetime’s work on the sociology, culture and politics of sexuality, and is suffused with a critical humanism that offers a guide for the perplexed troubled by our contemporary sexual labyrinth. It is a landmark of sexual scholarship.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJeffrey Weeks, London South Bank University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Ken Plummer helped define the field of sexuality studies, and now he pushes well beyond its boundaries, taking on big questions of social theory. \u003ci\u003eCosmopolitan Sexualities\u003c\/i\u003e uses the lens of sexuality studies to grapple with debates about belonging and difference in our rapidly globalizing world. Plummer has read absolutely everything, and in this book he offers a comprehensive, often dazzling road map of the myriad changes which are simultaneously remaking intimate life and macro worlds, and what they tell us about what it means to be human.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eArlene Stein, Rutgers University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eBoxes x\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWebsite xi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAbbreviations xii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA troubled world 3\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA tale to tell 5\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn infinity of lists 8\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart One: Humanism and the Making of Cosmopolitan Sexualities 11\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1 Plural Sexualities: Making Valued Human Lives 13\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePlural lives 14\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eContingency and the varieties of sexual experience 16\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCritical humanism 20\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHumanist troubles 22\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVulnerability and the dignity of the self 26\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePlural values, valued lives 29\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSearch for common humanities 30\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA world ethics for critical humanism? 32\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eValued sexual lives 36\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2 Transformational Sexualities: Making Twenty-First-Century Sexual Lives 39\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTransformational sexualities 40\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReproductive sexualities, techno sexualities 44\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMediated sexualities 45\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eElectronic sexualities 47\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFamilial sexualities 50\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGendered sexualities 52\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eViolent sexualities 53\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePost-honour sexualities 54\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSecular, sacred and fundamentalist sexualities 56\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCommodified sexualities 58\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUrban sexualities and their assemblages 61\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAIDS and sexualities 63\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDivided sexualities, pauperized sexualities 64\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndividualized, reflective sexualities 65\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMigrating, diasporic and hybrid sexualities 67\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGlobal sexualities\/mobile sexualities 68\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion: Making sexual politics 69\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3 Cosmopolitan Sexualities: Living With Different Lives 71\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOn cosmopolitanism 72\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConstructing cosmopolitan sexualities in a global arena 74\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTroubles ahead: the contradictions and limits of cosmopolitanism 88\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe (very) long walk to cosmopolitan sexualities 101\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Two: Inclusive Sexualities: Nudging Towards a Better World 103\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4 Cultural Sexualities: Cultivating Awareness of Complexity 105\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGlobal sexualities and research 107\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWorld cultures and macro sexualities 110\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eImpure cultures and subterranean sexualities 116\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLocal cultures and micro sexualities 123\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion: complex cultures 130\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5 Contested Sexualities: Inventing Enemies, Making Boundaries 131\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eScaling the battlegrounds 133\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDivisive sexualities, agonistic politics 135\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe fault line of contested sexualities 141\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOn boundaries, belonging and the vulnerabilities of normativity 143\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNormative sexualities 145\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVulnerable sexualities 150\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLooking ahead 153\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6 Communicative Sexualities: On the Hope and Empathy for a Common Global Humanity 155\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEmpathic sexualities 156\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNarrative sexualities 161\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDialogic sexualities 164\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEthical sexualities 167\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDemocratic sexualities 175\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBleak sexualities 179\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHopeful sexualities 182\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe little grounded everyday ‘utopian’ processes of global hope 183\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn the end 187\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEpilogue: Contingent Sexualities – Dancing into the Sexual Labyrinth 190\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePersonal tales 193\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTextual tales 194\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eResearch tales 196\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTroubled tales 198\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMobile tales 200\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes 202\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences 232\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex: 100 Samples of Multiple Sexualities 268\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex: General 270\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49404417081687,"sku":"9780745671000","price":16.14,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780745671000.jpg?v=1730486407","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/cosmopolitan-sexualities-9780745671000","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}