Table of Contents Preface
Introduction
Part 1: Introduction to Sexualities
Starting Point Questions
Introduction
1. Shaking the Foundations: Early Inquiries in Sexualities Studies
1.1 'The Monogamous Family' Frederick Engels
1.2 'The Historical Emergence of Homosexualities and Heterosexualities: Social Relations, Sexual Rule, and Sexual Resistance' Gary Kinsman
1.3 'The Data of Biology' Simone de Beauvoir
1.4 'Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality' Gayle Rubin
1.5 'The Incitement to Discourse' Michel Foucault
2. Contemporary Approaches and Applications
2.1 'Gender and Sexual Harassment' Sandy Welsh
2.2 'Bisexuality: Coping with Sexual Boundaries' Mariana Valverde
2.3 'Making the Lives of Transsexual People Visible: Addressing the Politics of Social Erasure' Viviane Namaste
2.4 'The Regulation of First Nations Sexuality' Martin Cannon
Dialogue Box: 'When Did You Decide?', Critical Conversations: Discussion Questions, Glossary
Part 2: Sexual Identities in Changing Social Contexts
Starting Point Questions
Introduction
3. Change: The Shifting Meanings of Self and Sexuality
3.1 'A Genealogy of the Genital Kiss: Oral Sex in the Twentieth Century' Alan Hunt and Bruce Curtis
3.2 '"Horrible Temptations": Sex, Men, and Working-class Male Youth in Urban Ontario, 1890-1935' Steven Maynard
3.3 excerpt from Incorrigible, Velma Demerson
3.4 '"Why Can't I Be Normal?": Sex Advice for Teens' Mary Louise Adams
4. Young People Having Sex: Sexualities, Sexual Identities, and Sexual
Behaviours
4.1 'Canadian University Students' Perceptions of the Practices that Constitute "Normal" Sexuality for Men and Women ' Todd G. Morrison, Travis A. Ryan, Lisa Fox, Daragh T. McDermott, and Melanie A. Morrison
4.2 '"It Just Happens": Negotiating Casual Heterosexual Sex ' Melanie Beres
4.3 'The Marc Hall Prom Predicament: Queer Individual Rights versus Institutional Church Rights in Canadian Public Education' Andre P. Grace and Kristopher Wells
4.4 'Characteristics of Male and Female Victims of Sexual Coercion' Cailey Hartwick, Serge Desmarais, and Karl Hennig
5. Sex for Life? Changing Patterns within Long-term Relationships
5.1 'Until Death Do Us Part? The Impact of Differential Access to Marriage on a Sample of Urban Men' Adam Isaiah Green
5.2 'Changes in Conjugal Life in Canada: Is Cohabitation Progressively Replacing Marriage?' Celine Le Bourdais and Evelyne Lapierre-Adamcyk
5.3 'A New Entity in the History of Sexuality: The Respectable Same-Sex Couple' Mariana Valverde
5.4 'Ethnically Heterogamous Marriages: The Case of Asian Canadians' Jessie M. Tzeng
Dialogue Box: 'Whistler Guys Study', Critical Conversations: Discussion Questions, Glossary
Part 3: Status and Stigma: Sex and Sexualities in Social Institutions
Starting Point Questions
Introduction
6. Health, Illness, and Sexualities
6.1 'Minding the Gaps: Intersex and (Re-productive) Spaces in Disability Studies, and Bioethics' Morgan Holmes
6.2 'Canadians Denied: A Queer Diasporic Analysis of the Canadian Blood Donor' OmiSoore Dryden
6.3 'Passive Medicalization: The Case of Viagra and Erectile Dysfunction' Richard Carpiano
6.4 'Stigma Management? The Links between Enacted Stigma and Teen Pregnancy Trends among Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Students in British Columbia' Elizabeth M. Saewyc, Coleen S. Poon, Yuko Homma, and Carol L. Skay
7. Sex Education and Sex in Education
7.1 'Trends in Adolescent Sexuality: A Look at Canadian Youth' Stephanie Mitelman and Jo Visser
7.2 'Sexual Health Education in the Schools: Questions and Answers' Sex Information and Education Council of Canada (SIECCAN)
7.3 'An Adolescent Perspective on Sexual Health Education at School and at Home: I. High School Students' E. Sandra Byers, Heather A. Sears, Susan D. Voyer, Jennifer L. Thurlow, Jacqueline N. Cohen, and Angela D. Weaver
7.4 'Culture, Religion, and Curriculum: Lessons from the "Three Books" Controversy in Surrey, BC' Damian Collins
8. Media Representing Realities?
8.1 'Reading Contemporary "Bad Girls": The Transgressions and Triumphs of Madonna's "What It Feels Like for a Girl"' Charity Marsh
8.2 'Media Representations of Adolescent Pregnancy' Anita Shaw
8.3 'The Lone Streetwalker": Missing Women and Sex Work-Related News' Shawna Ferris
8.4 'Sex, Lies, and Videotape: The Presentation of Sex Crime in Local Television News.' Keith Dowler
Dialogue Box: 'Kiss and Tell', Critical Conversations: Discussion Questions, Glossary
Part 4: Mutually Constructing Knowledge: Sex, Gender, and Sexualities
Starting Point Questions
Introduction
9. Homophobia and Its Implications for Everyone (regardless of Sexual Identity)
9.1 'Wearing Pink as a Stand against Bullying: Why We Need to Say More' Diane Naugler
9.2 'Sexual Identity and Heterosexual Male Students' Usage of Homosexual Insults: An Exploratory Study' Tyler L. Brown and Kevin G. Alderson
9.3 'What Does Being Gay Have to Do with It? A Feminist Analysis of the Jubran Case' Tia Dafnos
9.4 'Constructing and Contesting Discourses of Heteronormativity: An Ethnographic Study of Youth in a Francophone High School in Canada' Phyllis Dalley and Mark David Campbell
10. Racialization, Immigration, and the Politics of Sexualities
10.1 'Magic and Joy: Traditional Aboriginal Views of Human Sexuality' David Newhouse
10.2 'Iranian Immigrants' Perceptions of Sexuality in Canada: A Symbolic Interactionist Approach' Khosro Refale Shirpak, Eleanor Maticka-Tyndale, and Maryam Chinichian
10.3 'International Female Migration to Atlantic Canada through Internet-Mediated Matchmaking Agencies' Susan Brigham and Catherine Baillie Abidi
10.4 'Double Jeopardy: Building Strong Communities to Fight Homophobia and Racism' Andrea Zoe Aster
11. What's the Deal with Sex and Gender Anyway? What Is the Connection and Where Do We Go from Here?
11.1 'Harassment Based on Sex: Protecting Social Status in the Context of Gender Hierarchy' Jennifer L. Berdahl
11.2 '"Tank Tops Are Ok but I Don't Want to See Her Thong": Girls' Engagements with Secondary School Dress Codes' Rebecca Raby
11.3 'Reconsidering the Socio-Scientific Enterprise of Sexual Difference: The Case of Kimberly Nixon' Ajnesh Prasad
11.4 'What's to Fear: Calling Homophobia into Question' Mahida Didi Khayatt
Dialogue Box: 'Trust the Web: It Gets Better', Critical Conversations: Discussion Questions, Glossary
Acknowledgements