Telling Sexual Stories Power, Change and Social Worlds

Name: Telling Sexual Stories Power, Change and Social Worlds
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ISBN: 9780415102964

ISBN-10: 0415102960

ISBN-13: 9780415102964

Edition: 1995

Authors: Ken Plummer

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The world has become cluttered with sexual stories. From child abuse scandals to lesbians and gays coming out; from Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas to thetravailsof Michael Jackson; from sexual surveys to therapy groups--sexual talk has become more and more evident. Telling Sexual Storiesexplores the rites of a sexual storytelling culture. Taking three major examples--rape stories, coming-out stories, recovery stories--it examines the nature of these newly emerging narratives and the socio-historical conditions which give rise to them. It looks at the rise of the women's movement, the lesbian and gay movement and the "recovery" movement as harbingers of significant social change that…

Book details

List price: $56.95
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Publication date: 12/8/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 260
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.25" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



Preface



Entering the Story Zone



Prologue: the Culture of Sexual Story Telling



An Invitation to a Sociology of Stories



Making Sexual Stories Coming Out Everywhere: Modernist Stories of Desire, Danger and Recovery



Coming Out, Breaking the Silence and Recovering: Introducing Some Modernist Tales



Women's Culture and Rape Stories



The Modernisation of Gay and Lesbian Stories



Recovery Tales Sexual Stories at Century's End



The Tale and Its Time



The Shifting Sexual Stories of Late Modernity



Intimate Citizenship: the Politics of Sexual Story Telling



Epilogue: Beyond Stories: the Pragmatics of Story Telling


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