The Routledge Companion to Gender, Sexuality, and Culture

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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. 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