Sexual Lives: A Reader on the Theories and Realities of Human Sexualities - Softcover

Heasley, Robert; Crane, Betsy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 007249364X ISBN 13: 9780072493641

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2002

Synopsis

This reader provides a social constructionist approach to teaching about sexuality. Its 65 selections combine a range of classic theoretical articles with a large number of original pieces, organized to help students understand the ways sexuality influences every aspect of their lives. The reader focuses on the theoretical and the personal stories of people’s sexuality. Personal narratives, many written by students, bridge the gap between theory and experience. The book invites the student into thinking about how sexuality itself is “constructed” as a result of norms, values, beliefs, and practices. It weaves together gender and sexuality, helping students understand the intersection between the two (and the confusion in society when we find people don’t easily “fit” into categories).

About this title

About the Author:

Robert Heasley is currently at Indiana University of Pennsylvania in the Department of Sociology where he teaches courses on sexuality, and men and masculinity. Previously on the faculty at Ithaca College and at University of Alaska Anchorage, Robert received his Ph.D. from Cornell University. He has lectured, led workshops and worked with school systems for over 20 years on issues related to men’s lives, raising boys, and confronting homophobia. Having previously worked as a health and human services administrator, his teaching and research interests, in addition to sexuality, include gender-related problems and interventions, clinical sociological practice, human service theory, program development, and mental health/life issues. Robert has taught courses in sexuality at Cornell University and SUNY Upstate Medical School. He was selected to give the 1998 lecture on sexuality for the Dorothy Everett Martin Lecture Series at the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Work.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Higher Education
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 007249364X
• ISBN 13: 9780072493641
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 640