Money, Sex and Power Term 2

Reading List
Dr Carol Wolkowitz

Room Ramphal 3.36

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Email C.Wolkowitz@warwick.ac.uk Tel 02476 523159

Term 2
The Politics of Sex
Theme 3 Discourse, sex, power
Week 11: Victorian sexual ideologies
Week 12: Conceptualising sexuality: Fourcaults contribution
Week 13: Discourses of heterosexuality: Sex and the City
Week 14: Sexology: (Re)constructing mens and womens gendered sexualities
Theme 4 Money, Sex and Power: The Commodification of Sex
Week 15: Prostitution and the sexual contract
Week 16: Reading week
Week 17: Men and women as consumers within sexual-economic exchanges
Week 18: The power relations of sexual commerce: the strip club as a case study
Theme 5 Unsettling gender and sexual binaries
Week 19: Queer theory
Week 20: The legal recognition of same-sex partnerships
NB. Almost all the journal articles are available online through the University Library, so
we cannot put them in Course Extracts. Book chapters that have been scanned so that you
can read them in Course Extracts are designated by the letters CE.
A set of questions for each week is provided to help students focus their reading for
seminar discussion and class essays. Class essay questions will be distributed later.

Theme 4 Discourse, power, sex

Week 11 Victorian sexual ideologies
This week provides an historical point of entry to our consideration of the politics of sex. It
focuses on the Victorians construction of mens and womens sexual natures in gendered,
binary terms: men as lustful sexual agents, women as passionless exemplars of purity.
We will consider the origins of these ideas, whom they benefitted or empowered, and how
they shaped campaigns around prostitution and moral reform.
Class Reading:
N. Cott (1978) Passionlessness: An Interpretation of Victorian Sexual Ideology, 17901850, Signs 42 (2): 219-236 Also available in N. Cott and E.Peck, eds (1989) A Heritage
of Her Own. NY: Simon and Schuster, which can be accessed electronically through the
Library catalogue.
CE J. Walkowitz (1984) Male Vice and Female Virtue: Feminism and the Politics of
Prostitution in Nineteenth Century Britain in A. Snitow, et al (eds) Desire: The Politics of
Sexuality London: Virago.
Focal questions:
What is meant by the sexual double standard? How were mens and womens natural
predilections understood by the English and American dominant classes in the Victorian
period?
How did the sexual double standard reflect gender and class divisions of the Victorian era?
Why did some women embrace the ideology of womens passionlessness? In what ways
might it serve womens own interests? What were some of its costs?
Which sexualities were considered dangerous and contaminating? Why?
How did the double standard shape measures to regulate prostitution?
How did Victorian constructions of mens and womens sexuality shape Victorian feminist
strategies to protect women and children?
Were class, Empire and race integral to or peripheral to the gendered construction of
sexuality?
Recommended reading:
J. Weeks (1989) Sex, Politics and Society, Longman. Chapters 2-6.
J. Weeks (1992) The Body and Sexuality Chapter 5 of R. Bocock and K. Thompson (eds)
Social and Cultural Forms of Modernity Open Univiersity/ Polity.
L. Hall (2000) Sex, Gender and Social Change in Britain since 1880 Macmillan Chapters 1
and 2.
L. Gordon & E. DuBois (1983) Seeking Ecstacy on the Battlefield: Danger and Pleasure
in 19th Century Feminist Sexual Thought, Feminist Review, 13: 42-54. Online.

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J. de Groot (1989) Sex and Race: The Construction of Language and Image in the 19th
Century in S. Mendus and J. Rendall (eds) Sexuality and Subordination, London:
Routledge.
M. Poovey (1988) Uneven Development: The Ideological Work of Gender in MidVictorian England, University of Chicago. Chapter 1 esp. pages 1 - 15.
J. Walkowitz (1980) Prostitution and Victorian Society Introduction and Part I, CUP.
A. Wohl (ed) (1978) The Victorian Family, Croom Helm.Ch. 10.
L. Bland (1986) Marriage Laid Bare: Middle Class Women and Marital Sex c. 1880-1914
in Jane Lewis (ed) Labour and Love.Oxford: Basil Blackwell.
A. Stoler (1997) Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power in Lancaster and di Leonardo
Gender/Sexuality Reader pp 13-36. See also Stolers book Race and the Education of
Desire (1995), Duke University Press.
A. McClintock (1995) Imperial Leather Routledge pp.46-56.
F. Mort (1987) Dangerous Sexualities, RKP, Part 3.
L. Bland (1995) Banishing the Beast: English Feminism and Sexual Mortality (1885-1914)
Penguin. Chapter 3 Purifying the Public World OR L Bland (1992) Feminist Vigilantes of
Late Victorian England in C Smart, ed. Regulating Womanhood, London: Routledge.
S. Jeffreys (1986) The Spinster and Her Enemies Pandora, Chapter 1.
L. Mahood (1995) Policing Gender, Class and Family in Britain, 1800 1945 University
College, London.
M. Spongberg (1997) The Source in Feminizing Venereal Disease: The Body of the
Prostitute in the 19th C. Macmillan.
C. Smart ed (1992) Chapter 1, C. Smart, Disruptive Bodies and Unruly Sex in Regulating
Womanhood, Routledge, Chapter 1, especially pp 25-32 and L. Bland Feminist vigilantes
of late-Victorian England pp. 33-52.
P. Levine (1994) Venereal Disease, Prostitution and the Politics of Empire: The Case of
British India Journal of the History of Sexuality Vol. 4. No. 4, pp. 579-602
P. Howell (2000) Prostitution and Racialised Sexuality: The Regulation of Prostitution in
Britain and the British Empire before the Contagious Diseases Acts Environment and
Planning D: Society and Space, 18:321-339.
S. Bell (1994) Reading, Writing and Rewriting the Prostitute Body Duke University Press
L. Nead (1988) Myths of Sexuality, Blackwell, Ch. 4.
L. Mahood (1990) The Wages of Sin: Women. Work and Sexuality in the Nineteenth
Century in E Gordon and E Breietenbach (eds) The World is Ill-Divided Edinburgh
University Press.
R. Phillips (2006) Sex, Politics and Empire, Manchester University Press. Chapter 5.
Generative Margins: Introducing a Stronger Form of Regulation in Bombay.

Week 12 Conceptualising sexuality: Foucaults contribution (and its critics)

This weeks work looks at the ways Foucault conceptualises the modern history of
sexuality, and how this relates to his concepts of power, discourse and the body. This will
provide necessary background for looking at changing discourses of heterosexuality in
Week 13 and scientific constructions of sexuality in Week 14.
Class reading:
Ideally students should read. Foucaults History of Sexuality, Vol .1 An introduction. Short
of that, good excerpts to start with, to get the flavour of his writing, are the following:
CE M. Foucault We Other Victorians from M. Foucault, History of Sexuality Vol 1: An
Introduction, first published in French in 1976. In P. Rabinow, ed (1986) The Foucault
Reader, pp. 292-300.
CE M. Foucault (1979) The History of Sexuality, Vol.1: An Introduction, Penguin, pp 92102.
Please also read one of the following:
CE C. Ramazanoglu (1993) Chapter 1 of C. Ramazanoglu, ed. Up Against Foucault
London: Routledge, pp 1-24, especially the definitions of Foucaults terms, pp. 18 ff.
CE J. Sawicki (1991) Foucault and Feminism in Sawicki, Disciplining Foucault,
Routledge, pp 17-32
Focal questions:
What is meant by the repressive hypothesis and why does Foucault reject it?
How does Foucault define power? Discourse? Sexuality?
Explain why Foucaults thought is so contentious for feminist scholars. What are its
strengths and disadvantages for understanding the relation between gender and sexuality?
Can the power relations of gender be understood in terms of the systematic domination of
one gender by another?
Recommended reading:
CE J. Weeks (1989) Sex, Politics and Society, Longman. Pp 6-11.
C. Ramazonoglu, ed. (1993) Up against Foucault Routledge.
CE L. McNay (1992) Power, Body and Experience in McNay , Foucault and Feminism,
Polity.
M. Foucault (1981) The History of Sexuality, Vol.1, Penguin.
A. Sheridan (1980) Will to Truth, Part II, Tavistock.
B. Turner (1984) The Body and Society, ch.7, Blackwell.
C. Lemert and G. Gillian (1982) M. Foucault: Social Theory and Transgression, Columbia
University Press .
L. Bland and F. Mort (1997) Thinking Sex Historically in L.Segal, ed, New Sexual

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Agendas, Macmillan.
C. Gordon, ed. (1980) M. Foucault: Power/Knowledge: Selected Writings and Interviews,
London: Harvester Wheatsheaf.
R. Wuthnow et al. (1984) Cultural Analysis, ch.4, RKP.
P. Dews (1984) Power and Subjectivity in Foucault, New Left Review, No.144.
J. Weeks (1987) Questions of Identity in P. Caplan (ed) The Cultural Construction of
Sexuality or in J. Weeks, Against Nature, Rivers Oram, 1991.
C. Mackinnon (1992) Does Sexuality have a History? in D. Stanton Discourses of Desire,
University of Michigan Press.
B. Smart (1985) Michel Foucault, Tavistock.
F. Haug (ed) (1987) Female Sexualisation Verso Ch. 3. pp. 185-206
CE H. Brake (1982) Human Sexual Relations Penguin.Review of M. Foucault, pp. 245-74.
J. Sawicki (1992) Disciplining Foucault London: Routledge.
I. Diamond & L. Quinby (1988) Feminism and Foucault, Boston: Northeastern University
Press.

Week 13 Discourses of heterosexuality: Sex and the City

The lecture will review key contributions in feminist thought about the meaning of
heterosexuality as an institution and ask how far, for women, heterosexual life styles and
practices are still constrained by the enshrined male priviledges of institutionalised
heterosexuality. In seminar we will consider the television and film Sex and the City, and
consider how women and men are positioned by discourses of heterosexuality and how this
affects their relative power. To what extent has this changed?
Class reading:
CE W. Hollway (1984) Gender difference and the production of subjectivity in J.
Henriques, Changing the Subject Methuen. Or see the excerpt in Jackson and Scott,
Feminism and Sexuality (1996), Edinburgh University Press, pp. 84-100.
J. Arthur (2003) Sex and the City and Consumer Culture Feminist Media
Studies 3:1, pp.83-98.
and in the same issue :
Gill, Rosalind (2003) Editors Introduction: From sexual objectification to sexual
subjectification: The resexualisation of womens bodies in the media Feminist Media
Studies 3:1, pp.99-114. (Note that the authors name is missing from the Table of Contents
in this issue of the journal. The article is near the end of the issue.)
Attwood, Feona (2007) Sluts and Riot Grrls: Female Identity and Sexual Agency Journal
of Gender Studies 16 (3).
Focal questions:
What does it mean to say that heterosexuality is a social institution?
What are the discourses of heterosexuality that Hollway describes?
How do these discourses allocate positions and distribute power between men and
women? Are women and men free to take up and deploy whichever discourse they like?
What possibilities do discourses of heterosexuality provide (and foreclose) for women to
seek and define sexual pleasures?
How far have the discourses of heterosexuality changed? Do they provide more scope for
women to exercise power?
Consider the ways in which womens sexuality is figured in recent media, such as a TV
programme like Sex and the City. Can you identify the presence of Hollways discourses in
it?
Recommended reading
CE S. Jackson and S.Scott (2010) Theorising Sexuality Open University Press, See
especially Chapter 4 Is heterosexuality still compulsory? Pp 74-101.
A. Rich (1980) Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence, Only Women Press. It
was also published in the journal Signs (1980), vol. 5, no 4, and can be read through Jstore.

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A. Rich, Adrienne (2004) Reflections on compulsory heterosexuality Journal of
Womens History 16:1, pp.9-11.
CE C. Smart (1996) Confusion, Collaboration and Confession in D. Richardson, ed.
Theorizing Heterosexuality Buckingham: Open University Press. Pp 161-176.
CE C. Smart (1996)Desperately Seeking Post-Heterosexual Woman in J. Holland and L.
Adkins, eds, Sexuality, Sensibility and the Gendered Body, Macmillan.
M. Johnson (2002) Fuck you and your untouchable face: Third Wave feminism and the
problem of romance in M. Johnson, ed. Jane Sexes It Up N.Y. and London: Four Walls
Eight Windows.
J. Hockey, A.Meah and V. Robinson (eds) (2007) Mundane Heterosexualities: From
Theory to Practices Palgrave
H. Radner (2008) Compulsory Heterosexuality and the Desiring Woman Sexualities 11
(1/2):94-99.
N. Charles (2002) Sexuality, power and gender in Gender in Modern Britain, Oxford
University Press.
R.Coward (1999) Sacred Cows: Is Feminism Relevant to the New Millennium? London:
Harper Collins. Chapter 16, Potent Victims, pp198-209.
S.Faludi (1999) Stiffed: The Betrayal of Modern Man Chatto and Windus.
J. Hockey, V.Robinson, and A. Meah (2002) For Better or Worse?: Heterosexuality
Reinvented Sociological Research Online 7:2. Available at:
http://0-www.socresonline.org.uk.pugwash.lib.warwick.ac.uk:80/7/2/hockey.html
J. Holland et al (1998) The Male in the Head: Young people, heterosexuality and power
London: Tufnell.
S. Jackson (1999) Heterosexuality in question, Sage: London.
S. Jackson. (1996) Heterosexuality as a Problem for Feminism in L. Adkins and V.
Merchant, eds. Sexualizing the Social Macmillan.
S. Jackson (1996) Heterosexuality and feminist theory in Diane Richardson (ed)
Theorising heterosexuality, Open University Press.
A. McRobbie, A (2009) The aftermath of feminism: gender, culture and social change,
Sage
J. Mangan and J. Walvin, J (eds) (1987) Manliness and Morality. Manchester:Manchester
University Press.
J. Arthurs (2003) Sex and the City and Consumer Culture: Remediating Postfeminist
Television Drama, Feminist Media Studies 3(1): 81-96.
G. Hawkes (1996) A Sociology of Sex and Sexuality Open University Press Chapters 7 and
8.
C. Kitzinger & S. Wilkinson (1993) Heterosexuality Sage. Introduction and articles by
Bartky. Ramazanoglu, and Hollway in particular
L. Segal (1997) Feminist Sexual Politics and the Heterosexual Predicament in L. Segal,
ed, New Sexual Agendas.
L .Segal (1994) Straight Sex Virago.

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S. Jackson (1999) Heterosexuality in Question Sage, pp163- 173. Or see similar excerpt in
Weeks et al. Sexualities and Society, 2003.
I. Vanwesenbeeck (1997) 'The Context of Women's Power(lessness) in Heterosexual
Intercourse' in New Sexual Agendas, edited by Lynn Segal, Macmillan
J. Dunscombe and D. Marsden (1996) 'Who's Orgasm is it Anyway?' Sexual Cultures, ed.
by J. Weeks and J Holland, Macmillan

Week 14: Sexology: (Re)constructing gendered sexualities

This week considers the role of sexologists and other sex experts and the pharmaceutical
industry in the construction and reconstruction of gendered sexual discourses and practices.
The lecture will provide a history of sexology and the seminar will consider its more recent
history through a viewing of the film Orgasm Inc.
Class reading:
B. Marshall (2002) Bio-medical Intervention: Hard Science: Gendered Constructions of
Sexual Dysfunction in the Viagra Age Sexualities Vol. 5 (2).
CE R. Nye, ed. (1999) Sexuality. Oxford University Press. Excerpts from Masters and
Johnson (267-268) and especially, by Tiefer, 270-275
Also explore these two websites and identify the differences in their approaches to sexual
experiences.
http://www.bermansexualhealth.com This is the Berman Sisters Sexual Health site.
http://www.newviewcampaign.org/default.asp The New View Campaign. Especially the
introduction to the New View Manifesto http://www.newviewcampaign.org/manifesto1.asp
Focal questions:
How do sexologists look at sexuality? How do they study it? What presumptions are
involved in how they study it?
Identify differences and similarities in the approaches of the two websites above. Which do
you prefer, and why?
What is the role of sex experts, and, latterly, the pharmaceutical companies, in reproducing
or challenging conventional discourses on male and female sexuality?
Recommended reading:
On the historical development of sexology:
L. Hall (2000) Sex, Gender and Social Change Ch 3
J. Weeks (1981) Sex, Politics and Society, ch.8.
J. Bancroft, et al (2001) Review Symposium on Krafft-Ebing: A Hundred Years On
Sexualities Vol. 4 (4)
R. Nye, ed. (1999) Sexuality. Oxford Univ Press. Excerpts from Masters and Johnson (267268) and especially, by Tiefer, 270-275
G. Hawkes A Sociology of Sex and Sexuality, Open University Press Chapters 4
R. Nye, ed. (1999) Sexuality. Oxford Univ Press. Excerpts from Masters and Johnson (267268) and especially, by Tiefer, 270-275
G. Hawkes A Sociology of Sex and Sexuality, Open University Press Chapters 4
A. Kinsey et al. (1948) Sexual Behaviour in the Human Male, ch.1.

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L. Hall (1997) Heroes or Villians? Reconsidering British fin de sicle Sexology in L.
Segal, ed, New Sexual Agendas.
J. Jones (1997) Alfred Kinsey: A Public/Private Person Norton.
J. Irvine (1995) Regulated Passions: The Diversion of Inhibited Sexual Desire and Sexual
Addiction, in J. Terry and J. Urla, eds., Deviant Bodies. Also chapter 5 Anxious
slippages by J. Terry
J. Irvine (2002) Towards a Value-Free Science of Sex: The Kinsey Report in K. Phillips
and B. Reay, eds. Sexualities in History Routledge
J.Aries and A. Bejin (1985) Western Sexuality Blackwell Chs. 15 and 16.
Walkowitz. J. (1992) City of Dreadful Delight, Ch 5.
M. Foucault (1981)The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1, Penguin, Part 3 pp.51-74.
S. Heath (1982)The Sexual Fix, chs 5 and 6, Macmillan.
L. Bland and Doan, L. eds (1998) Sexology Uncensored: The Documents of Sexual
Science Polity Press
S. Hite (1976) The Hite Report
L. Stanley (1995) Sex Surveyed 1949 - 1994: From Mass Observation to Little Kinsey
Taylor and Francis.
W. Reich (1951) The Sexual Revolution, ch.1, Vision Press.
L. Hall (1991) Hidden Anxieties Polity, chs 1, 4 & 5.
A. Rusbridger (1986) A Concise History of the Sex Manual, Faber.
M. Brake ed. (1982) Human Sexual Relations.
C. Vance (1983) Gender Systems, Ideology and Sex Research in A. Snitow, ed. Desire
Virago.
K. Wellings, et al (1994) Sexual Behaviour in Britain Penguin, ch 1, esp pp 1-14.
R. Porter & L.Hall (1995) The Facts of Life:The Creation of Sexual Knowledge in Britain.
1650-1950Yale University Press Chapters 7 - 9.
M. Jackson (1987) Facts of Life or the eroticization of womens oppression in P.
Caplan (ed) The Cultural Construction of Sexuality, Tavistock
OR
M. Jackson (1994) The Real Facts of Life: Feminism and the Politics of Sexuality 18501940 Taylor & Francis, chs 5, 6 & 7.
L. Coveney et al. The Sexuality Papers, chs 2 and 3, Hutchinson
S. Jeffreys (1985) The Spinster and Her Enemies,
L. Hall (1997) Heroes or Villians? Reconsidering British fin de sicle Sexology in L.
Segal, ed, New Sexual Agendas.
L. Hall (1998) Feminist Reconfigurations of Heterosexuality in the 1920s in L. Bland and
L. Doan, eds Sexology in Culture Polity
J. Gerhard (2000) The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasmin Second Wave Feminism
Feminist Studies, 26, 2, Summer 449-476

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Viagra and male sexuality:

A. Potts (2000) The Essence of the Hard-On: Hegemonic Masculinity and the Cultural
Construction of Erectile Dysfunction Men and Masculinities, 3, 1, July, pp. 85-103
L. Meika (2001) Fixing Broken Masculinity: Viagra as a Technology for the Production of
Gender and Sexuality Sexuality and Culture, 5, 3 Summer, pp. 97-125
B. Marshall and S. Katz (2002) Forever Functional: Sexual Fitness and the Ageing Male
Body Body and Society Vol. 8 (4): 43-70.
R. Rubin (2004) Men Talking About Viagra: An Exploratory Study with Focus Groups
Men and Masculinities Vol.7 (1): 22-30.
L. Mamo and J. Fishman (2001) Potency in All the Right Places: Viagra as a Technology
of the Gendered Body Body and Society Vol. 7 (4): 13-35.
Sexualities (2006) Special Issue on Viagra. Vol. 9 (3). Articles by Marshall, Vakes and
Braun, Grace et al, Tiefer.
M. Loe, M. (2004) The Rise of Viagra. New York: NYU Press.
L. Tiefer (1997) Medicine, Morality and the Public Management of Sexual Matters in L
Segal, ed, New Sexual Agendas Macmillan.See also L. Teifer (1987) In pursuit of the
perfect penis in Kimmel, M. Changing Men.
S. Brubaker & J. Johnson (2008) Pack a more powerful punch and lay the pipe: erectile
enhancement discourse as a body project for masculinity Journal of Gender Studies 17 (2):
131-146.
Approaches to Female sexual dysfunction
See also the many articles listed on http://www.newviewcampaign.org/default.asp or
www.leonoretiefer.com
J.A. Fishman (2004)Manufacturing Desire: The Commodification of Female Sexual
Dysfunction, Social Studies of Science 34: 187-218.
H. Hartley (2002) Promising Liberation but Delivering Business as Usual, Sexualities 5
(1): 107-13.
H. Hartley & L.Tiefer (2003) Taking a Biological Turn: The Push for a Female Viagra,
Womens Studies Quarterly 31 (1-2): 42-6.
A. Kaler (2006) Unreal Women: Sex, Gender, Identity and the Lived Experience of Vulvar
Pain, Feminist Review 82 (1): 50-75.
T. Cacchioni (2007) Heterosexuality and the Labor of Love: A Contribution to Recent
Debates on Female Sexual Dysfunction Sexualities Vol. 103, 299-320
J. Gerhard (2000) The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasmin Second Wave Feminism
Feminist Studies, 26, 2, Summer 449-476
M. Loe (2004) Sex and the Senior Woman: Pleasure and Danger in the Viagra Era
Sexualities Vol. 7 (3): 303-326.
L. Hall (1998) Feminist Reconfigurations of Heterosexuality in the 1920s in L. Bland and
L. Doan, eds Sexology in Culture Polity.

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T.Cacchioni and C. Wolkowitz (2011) Treating Womens Sexual Difficulties: The body
work of sexual therapy Sociology of Health and Illness, February 2011,
B. Kaschak and L. Teifer (2002) A New Look at Womens Sexual Problems Binghampton.
NY: Haworth Press This volume looks at the extent to which understandings of womens
sexuality are still dominated by sexological discourse.See
http://www.newviewcampaign.org/default.asp
Overviews:
Waters, C (2005)Sexology, in M Houlbrook and H Cocks eds, Advances in the Modern
History of Sexuality, Palgrave, available online through library catalogue.
S. Jackson and S. Scott (1997) Gut reactions to matters of the heart: reflections on
rationality, irrationality and sexuality The Sociological Review, pp.551-571.
P.J. McGann (2006, 2007) Healing Disorderly Desire: Medical-therapeutic Regulation of
Sexuality in S. Seidman, et al (eds) Introducing the New Sexuality Studies, Routledge.
Pp.365-366. See also essays by Celia Roberts and Nicola Gavey
L. Teifer (1993) Sex is Not a Natural Act Westview Press
J. Gagnon & R. Parker (1995)Conceiving Sexuality in R. Parker and J. Gagnon (eds.)
Conceiving Sexuality. Routledge pp 3 - 16
W. Simon (2003) The Postmodernization of Sex in J. Weeks, et al., Sexualities and
Society. Polity
G. Hawkes A Sociology of Sex and Sexuality, Open University Press Chapters 4 and 6
L. Tiefer (1997) Medicine, Morality and the Public Management of Sexual Matters in L
Segal, ed, New Sexual Agendas Macmillan.
L. Segal (1994) Straight Sex: The Politics of Pleasure Virago Chapter 3.
D.Clark (1993)With My body I Thee Worship: The Social Construction of Marital
Problems in S. Scott, D. Morgan eds Body Matters Falmer Press.
M. Roach (2008) The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex NY: W.W.Norton & Company

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Theme 4 Money, Sex and Power: The Commodification of Sex

Week 15 Prostitution and the sexual contract
The lecture will consider one version of the (radical) feminist argument that considers
prostitution as violence against women, Patemans argument that men gain access to, and
wield power over, womens bodies through prostitution as an exercise of their rights under
the sexual contract. In this argument the fact that men pay for this access simply disguises
their power to demand access as of right.
Class reading:
J. OConnell Davidson, J. (1996) Prostitution and the contours of control in J. Holland
and J. Weeks (eds) Sexual cultures : communities, values and intimacy, Macmillan:
London
N.Fraser (1993) Beyond the Master/Servant Relation, Social Text, No. 37, Winter, 1993.
Please also look at the websites below.
Focal questions:
How would you explain mens access to women through prostitution? What does Carole
Pateman argue?
What criticisms could be made of Patemans account?
How should we conceptualise the power relations between client and prostitute? To what
extent to do they vary? Why?
Should we criminalize prostitution or make it easier and safer for women to work in the
sex trade?
Is the criminalisation of men who buy sex in the UK justifiable, given that the selling and
buying of sex is legal? How could it be justified? Would it work in the interests of women
working in the sex trade?
Compare the two following websites. Which would you support and why? Do they both
adopt a feminist agenda?
http://www.catwinternational.org/
http://www.nswp.org
Recommended reading:
C. Pateman (1988) The Sexual Contract Cambridge: Polity. Chapter called Whats Wrong
with Prostitution?p.189ff.
C. Overall (1992) Whats wrong with Prostitution? Evaluating Sex Work in Signs No 17,
pp 705-24.
C. Wolkowitz (2006) Will any body do? Conceptualising the Prostitute Body in Bodies at
Work, London: Sage.

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S. Jeffreys (2009) The Industrial Vagina: Tthe political economy of the global sex trade,
London: Routledge. Especially Chapter One: Feminists and the global sex industry:
cheerleaders or critics?
P. Alexander (1997) Feminism, sex workers and human rights, in J. Nagel (ed) Whores
and other feminists. London: Routledge.
B. Brents et al. (2009)
The State of Sex: Tourism, Sex and Sin in the
New American Heartland, Routledge.
W. Chapkis, W. (1997) Live sex acts : women performing erotic labor. London: Cassell.
OConnell Davidson, J., 1998: Prostitution, power and freedom. Cambridge: Polity.
J. Scoular (2004) The Subject of Prostitution: Interpreting the Discursive, Symbolic and
Material Position of Sex/Work in Feminist Theory, Feminist Theory 5(3): 343-355.
K. Kesler (2002) Is a Feminist Stance in Support of Prostitution Possible? An exploration
of Current Trends, Sexualities 5(2): 219-235.
M. ONeill (2001) Prostitution and Feminism: Towards a Politics of Feeling Cambridge:
Polity.
R. Campbell & M. ONeill (2006) Sex Work Now, Willan Publishing.
J. Outshoorn (2001) Debating Prostitution in Parliament, European Journal of Womens
Studies, pp.472-489
J. Kantola and J. Squires (2004) Discourses Surrounding Prostitution Policies in the UK
European Journal of
J. OConnell Davidson, J. (2002) The Rights and Wrongs of Prostitution Hypatia 17 (2):
84-98.
J. OConnell Davidson (2006) Will the real sex slave please stand up?
Feminist Review No. 83, pp. 4-22.
S. Day (2007) On the Game: Women and Sex Work, Pluto.
T. Sanders and R. Campbell (2008) Whats criminal About Indoor Sex Work? in K.
Williams, P. Birch, G. Letherby and M. Cain (eds) Sex as crime, Cullompton: Willan.
Nirmal Puwar and Carole Pateman (2002) Interview with Carole Pateman: The Sexual
Contract, Women in Politics, Globalization and Citizenship, Feminist Review No. 70:
123-133.
Reports: Raymond, J. Legitimating Prostitution as Sex Work: UN International Labour
Organization Calls for Recognition of the Sex Industry (PART TWO)
http://action.web.ca/home/catw/readingroom (Coalition Against Trafficking in Women)
Sex: From intimacy to sexual labor or Is it a human right to prostitute? *CATW
WEBSITE http://action.web.ca/home/catw/readingroom (Coalition Against Trafficking in
Women)
Prostitutes Education Network, at: http://www.bayswan.org/Austraf.html

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Week 16 Reading week

Week 17 Men and women as consumers within sexual-economic exchanges
This session will continue our consideration of money, sex and power in sex work by
looking in more detail at debate about the consumers in what Sanchez Taylor (2001) calls
sexual-economic exchanges. We will pay particular attention to the power relations of sex
tourism, where women have been argued to play a role as consumers.
Class reading:
Sanders, T. 2008 Male Sexual Scripts: Intimacy, Sexuality and Pleasure in the Purchase of
Commercial Sex, Sociology 42(1): 400-417.
Sanchez Taylor, J. 2001 Dollars Are a Girls Best Friend? Female Tourists Sexual
Behaviour in the Caribbean, Sociology 35(3): 749-764.
S. Jeffreys (2003) Sex Tourism: Do women do it too? Leisure Studies Vol. 22 (3): 223238.
Focal questions:
Should we worry about men who buy sex? Why?
What are prostitute users looking for? Is it power over their sexual partner? How do their
own accounts reaffirm racialised and gendered identities?
How should we understand the motivations of men and women who engage in sex tourism,
and the relationships they form? In what ways are these similar? In what ways are they
different?
How does global inequality shape the relations between people who go abroad for sexual
relations and their sexual partners?
Recommended reading:
OConnell Davidson, J. (1995) British Sex Tourists in Thailand in M. Maynard and J.
Purvis (eds) (Hetero)sexual politics, London: Taylor and Francis.
T. Sanders (2008) Why hate men who pay for sex? Investigating the Shift to Tackling
Demand and the Calls to Criminalise Paying for Sex. in V. Munro (ed) Demanding Sex?
Critical Reflections on the Supply / Demand Dynamic in Prostitution, London: Ashgate.
M. Monto (2000) Why men seek out prostitutes, in R. Weitzer (ed) Sex for sale :
prostitution, pornography, and the sex industry. London: Routledge
R. Campbell and M. Storr (2001) Challenging the Kerb Crawler Rehabilitation
Programme, Feminist review 67 (Spring): 94-108.
T. Sanders (2008) Paying for pleasure : men who buy sex, Cullompton, Devon: Willan.
K. Wellings et al. (2005) Who pays for Sex? An analysis of the increasing prevalence of
female commercial sex contracts in Britain, Sexually transmitted infections, Vol 81, p 467471.

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E. Bernstein (2004) Desire Demand and the Commerce of Sex in Bernstein, E and
Schaffner, L, Regulating sex : the politics of intimacy and identity, Routledge, London.
K. K. Hoang (2010)Economies of Emotion, Familiarity, Fantasy, and
Desire: Emotional Labor in Ho Chi Minh City's Sex Industry Sexualities 13 (2): 255-272.
V. Zelizer (2006) Money, Power and Sex, Yale Journal of Law and Feminism Issue 303
A.L. Cabezas, A. L. (2009) Economies of Desire: Sex and Tourism in Cuba and the
Dominican Republic, Temple University Press.
K. Kempadoo and J. Doezema, eds Global Sex Workers: Rights, Resistance and
Redefinition. Routledge. .
R. Bishop and L Robinson (1998) Night Market: Sexual Cultures and the Thai Economic
Miracle Routledge.
K. Kempadoo (1999) Sun, Sex and Gold: Tourism and Sex Work in the Caribbean
Rowan and Littlefield.
D. Brennan (2004) What's love got to do with it? : transnational desires and sex tourism in
the Dominican Republic Durham, N.C. ; London : Duke University Press.
K. Plummer (2003) Intimate Citizenship Seattle: University of Washington Press, Chapter
8
M. McIntosh (1978) Who needs prostitutes? The ideology of male sexual needs, in C.
Smart and B. Smart (eds) Women, sexuality and social control. London: Routledge &
Kegan Paul.
M. Monto (2000) Why men seek out prostitutes, in R. Weitzer (ed) Sex for sale :
prostitution, pornography, and the sex industry. London: Routledge. HIGH DEMAND
J. OConnell Davidson (2001) The Sex Exploiter at
http://www.csecworldcongress.org/PDF/en/Yokohama/Background_reading/Theme_papers
/Theme%20paper%20The%20Sex%20Exploiter.pdf
G. Scambler and A. Scambler, eds (1997) Rethinking prostitution : purchasing sex in the
1990s. London: Routledge.
B. Brooks-Gordon (2006) The price of sex : prostitution, policy and society, Willan
Publishing.
M. Monto (2000) Why men seek out prostitutes. In R. Weitzer. Routledge, London: 67-83.
M. Monto, M. (2004) Female Prostitution, Customers and Violence Violence against
women. 10(2): 160-188.
M, Monto and N. Hotaling (2001) Predictors of Rape Myth Acceptance among Male
Clients of Female Street Prostitutes Violence against women 7(3): 275-293.
Svanstrom, Y. 2004 Criminalising the John - A Swedish Gender Model? in J. Outshoorn
(ed.) The politics of prostitution: womens movements, democratic states, and the
globalisation of sex commerce, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
K. Soothill and T. Sanders (2005) The Geographical Mobility, Preferences and Pleasures
of Prolific Punters: A Demonstration Study of the Activities of Prostitutes clients,
Sociological research online 10(1).
S. Jeffreys (1999) Globalizing Sexual Exploitation: Sex Tourism and the Traffic in
Women, Leisure Studies, 18 (3): 179-196.

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K. Albuquerque (1999). Sex, Beach Boys and Female Tourists in the Caribbean in Dank,
B.M. and Refinetti, R, Sex work & sex workers: sexuality and culture, Vol 2, New Jersey:
New Brunswick.
J. Sanchez Taylor (2000) Tourism and Embodied Commodities: Sex Tourismn in the
Caribbean, in S. Clift and S. Carter (eds) Tourism and sex : culture, commerce and
coercion, London: Pinter.
J. OConnell Davidson (2001) The Sex Tourist, The Expatriate, His Ex-Wife and her
Other: The Politics of Loss, Difference and Desire Sexualities Vol. 4 (1): 5-24.
R. Bishop and L. Robinson (2002)How my dick spent its summer vacation: labor, leisure
and masculinity on the web.Genders Online Journal, 35http://www.genders.org/g35/g35robinson.html
L. Lewis (2004) Masculinity, the Political Economy of the Body, and Patriarchal Power in
the Caribbean, in B. Bailey and E. Leo-Rhynie (eds) Gender in the 21st century
Caribbean: perspectives, visions and possibilities, Kingston: Ian Randle Publishers.
Sex Tourism Further Reading
K. Plummer (2003) Intimate Citizenship Seattle: University of Washington Press,Chapter 8
R. Bishop and L. Robinson (1998) Night market : sexual cultures and the Thai economic
miracle. London: Routledge.
C. Enloe (1989) Bananas, beaches & bases: making feminist sense of international politics,
London: Pandora.
J. Nagel (2003) Race, Ethnicity and Sexuality: Intimate Intersections, Forbidden Frontiers,
Oxford University Press. Chapter 2
G. Bhattacharyya, G. 2002, Sexuality and society : an introduction, London: Routledge.
Gilman, S.L. (1985) Black Bodies, White Bodies: Towards an Iconography of Female
Sexuality in Late Nineteenth Century Art. Medicine and Literature Critical inquiry, Vol.
12, No.1, p 205-243.
S. Clift, S. and S. Carter, S., eds (2000) Tourism and sex : culture, commerce and coercion.
London: Pinter.
K. Kempadoo (2004) Sexing the Caribbean : gender, race, and sexual labor. New York:
Routledge.

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Week 18 The power relations of sexual commerce: stripping as a case study

Class reading:
L. Pasko (2002) Naked Power: The Practice of Stripping as a Confidence Game,
Sexualities, 5 (1): 49-66.
M. Bradley- Engen and J. Ulmer (2009) Social Worlds of Stripping Sociological
Quarterly 50: (1): 29-60.
B. Barton (2002) Dancing on the Mobius Strip; Challenging the Sex War Paradigm
Gender and Society 16 (5): 585-602.
K. Pilcher (2011) A sexy space for women? Heterosexual womens experiences of a
male strip show venue Leisure Studies, 30 (2): 217-235.
Focal questions:
Who exercises power in the strip club? Why do you think this is?
How do you define power and how does that definition shape the way you see the power
relations of the strip club?
Can women customers exercise power in the strip club in the same way male customers
do? Why or why not?
How far can we generalise about peoples experiences of working in lapdancing and
stripping?
How do the power relations of the strip club mirror (or challenge) the
power relations of heterosexuality more generally?
Recommended reading:
K. Price (2008) Keeping Dancers in Check Gender and Society 22 (3): 367-389.
E. Pentitiro (2020) Imagined and Embodied Spaces Gender, Work and Organization 17
(1): 28-44.
C. Forsyth (2006) Strategic Flirting and the Emotional Tab of Exotic Dancing, Deviant
Behavior, 27(2): 223-241.
K. Frank (1998) The Production of Identity and The Negotiation of Intimacy in a
Gentlemans Club, Sexualities, 1(2): 175-201.
C.R. Ronai and R. Cross (1998) Dancing With Identity: Narrative Resistance Strategies of
Male And Female Stripteases, Deviant Behavior, 19(2):99-119.
M.N.Trautner (2005) Doing Gender, Doing Class: The Performance of Sexuality in Exotic
Dance Clubs Gender & society.19(6): 771-778.
J. Wesely (2003) Exotic Dancing and the Negotiation of Identity: The Multiple Uses of
Body Technologies Journal of contemporary ethnography. 32(6): 643-669.
J. Wesely (2003) Where am I Going to Stop?: Exotic Dancing, Fluid Body Boundaries,
and Effects on Identity, Deviant Behavior, 24(5):483-503.
K. Holsopple, K. (nd) Strip Club Testimony, Minneapolis, MN: The Freedom and Justice

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Centre for Prostitution Resources.
http://www.ccv.org/images/strip_club_testimony_and_study.PDF
E. Bott (2006) Pole Position: Migrant British Women Producing Selves Through Lap
Dance Work, Feminist Review. 83, pp. 23-41.
E.A. Wood (2000) Working in the Fantasy Factory: The Attention Hypothesis and the
Enacting of Masculine Power in Strip Clubs, Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 29
(1): 5-31.
C. Smith (2002) Shiny Chests and Heaving G-Strings: A Night Out with the
Chippendales, Sexualities 5 (1): 67-89.
S.E. Spivey (2005) Distancing and Solidarity as Resistance to Sexual Objectification in a
Nude Dancing Ban, Deviant Behavior 26 (5): 417-437.
B. Montemuro (2001) Strippers and Screamers: The emergence of social control in a noninstitutionalised setting, Journal of contemporary ethnography 30 (3): 275-304.
N. Sweet and R. Tewksbury (2000) Whats a nice girl like doing in a place like this?
Pathways to a career in stripping, Sociological Spectrum 20 (3): 325-343.
D. J. Erickson and R. Tewksbury (2000) The gentlemen in the club: a typology of strip
club patrons, Deviant Behavior, 21 (3): 271-293.
C. Forsyth (1992) Parade strippers: a note on being naked in public, Deviant Behavior
13: 391-403.
H. Bell et al (1998) Exploiter and Exploited: Topless dancers reflect on their experiences,
Affilia 13:352-65.
C. Forsyth C & T. Deshotels (1997) The Occupational Milieu of the Nude Dancer,
Deviant behavior 18:125-142
T. Deshotels and C.J. Forsyth(2006) Strategic Flirting and the Emotional Tab of Erotic
Dancing Deviant Behavior 27 (2): 223-241.
D. Egan, D. and K. Nash (2005) Attempts at a Feminist and Interdisciplinary
Conversation about Strip Clubs Deviant Behavior 26 (4): 297: 320.
D.Schweitzer (2000) Striptease: The Art of Spectacle and Transgression, Journal of
Popular Culture 34 (1): 65-75.
K.Hardy, S. Kingston and T. Sanders (eds.) (2010) New Sociologies of Sex Work, Ashgate.
Web sources
Fawcett Society (2009) Campaign to Reform Lap Dancing Club Licensing, February
2009, , available online: http://www.fawcettsociety.org.uk/documents/Fawcett%20Object
%20campaign%20briefing%20Feb%2009.pdf
Cooke, R (2009) Should lapdancing be run out of town? The Observer, 8th March 2009,
available online: http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/mar/08/sex-industry-lapdancing
ESRC Project: The Regulatory Dance. T. Sanders and K. Hardy
http://www.lssi.leeds.ac.uk/special-reports/teela-sanders/
http://www.sociology.leeds.ac.uk/research/projects/regulatory-dance.php

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N. Stavonina de Montagnac (2009) The lies men told to see me dance naked, The
Observer, 8th March 2009, available online:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/mar/08/women-lap-dancing-licensing
T. Gold, T (2009) Women watch men strip for fun. Men watch women for darker reasons,
The Guardian, 17 August 2009, available online:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/aug/17/tanya-gold-stripping (see also the
reader comments below the article)
Printed sources
B. Dank and R. Refinetti, eds Sex Work and Sex Workers Transaction (1999)
M. L. Johnson, ed. (2002) Jane Sexes It Up Four Walls Eight WindowsPress. Articles by K.
Pullen, Co-ed Call Girls and K. Frank, Stripping, Starving and the Politics of Ambiguous
Pleasure
R. Weitzer (2000) Sex for Sale: Prostitution, Pornography and the Sex Industry Routledge.
Articles by Rich and Gudroz on phone sex lines, Lewis on lap-dancing and article by
Chapkis.
K. Liepe-Levinson (2002) Strip Show: Performances of Gender and Desire Routledge
R. Tewsksbury, R (1993) Male strippers: men objectifying men in Christine L Williams
(ed) Doing womens work: men in non-traditional occupations Newbury Park, CA: Sage
B. Barton (2006) Stripped: Inside the Lives of Exotic Dancers, New York: New York
University Press.
R. Egan et al. (2005) Flesh for Fantasy: Examining the Production and Consumption of
Exotic Dance, San Francisco, CA: Avalon Press.
R. Egan (2006) Dancing for Dollars and Paying for Love: The Relationships Between
Exotic Dancers and their Regulars, New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
K. Frank (2002) G-Strings and Sympathy: Strip Club Regulars and Male Desire, Durham:
Duke University Press.

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Theme 5 Unsettling gender and sexual binaries

Week 19 Queer theory

Class reading
CE J. Butler (1991)Imitation and gender insubordination in D. Fuss, ed. Inside/Out:
Lesbian Theories, Gay Theories Routledge
CE C. Ingraham (1996) The Heterosexual Imaginary: Feminist Sociology and Theories of
Gender in Seidman, S. (ed.) Queer Theory/Sociology. Blackwell, Oxford.
S. Roseneil (2000) Queer Frameworks and Queer Tendencies: Understanding of
Postmodern Transformations of Sexuality Sociological Research Online, Vol. 5 no.3
Focal questions:
What is meant by the heterosexual matrix?
What, according to Butler, is the basis of sexual and gender identities? Should we build
upon them or deconstruct and transgress them?
How would you evaluate queer theorys contribution, politically and academically?
Does queer theory have any relevance for sociology? Ought we to challenge
heteronormativity in sociology? How?
Identify and evaluate queer theorys challenge to feminism.
Are feminism and queer theory compatible?
Is it possible to queer heterosexuality?
Recommended reading:
C. Hammers (2008) Bodies that speak and the promises of queer: looking to two
lesbian/queer bathhouses for a third way, Journal of Gender Studies, 17:2, 147-164
L. Rupp et al. (2010) Drag Queens and Drag Kings: The Difference Gender Makes,
Sexualities 13 (3): 275-294. C. Ingraham (1996)
S. Jeffreys (1994) The Queer Disappearance of Lesbians: Sexuality in the Academy
Womens Studies International Forum 17, 5, 459-472
J. Parnaby (1993) Queer Straits Trouble and Strife No 26, June, pp 13-16
J Halberstam (2008) The Anti-Social Turn in Queer Studies, Graduate Journal of Social
Science 5 (2): 140-156.
http://gjss.org/images/stories/volumes/5/2/0805.2a08_halberstam.pdf
J Ward (2010) Gender labor: Transmen, Femmes and the Collective Work of
Transgression, Sexualities 13 (2): 236-254.

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Printed sources
J. Weeks, et al (2003) Sexualities and Society, Polity. Chapters 10 and 11
D. Richardson et al. (eds.). (2006) Intersections between Feminist and queer Theory,
Palgrave MacMillan.
D. Richardson (2000) Rethinking Heterosexuality Sage Chapter 2 From Lesbian Nation to
Queer is a good summary, Chapters 1 and 3 provide useful background.
D. Richardson, ed. (1996) Theorising Heterosexuality, Open University Press. Articles by
Richardson, Hollway, Jeffreys, Jackson and Carbine.
S. Jackson & S. Scott Feminism and Sexuality, Articles in Part 2, Affirming and
Questioning Sexual Categories.
S. Jackson and S. Scott (2010) Theorizing Sexuality, OUP, pp. 19-23.
N. Sullivan (2003) A Critical Introduction to Queer Theory. Edinburgh: Edinburgh
University Press.
S. Jackson (1995) Gender and Heterosexuality: A Materialist Feminist Analysis in M.
Maynard and J. Purvis, eds. (Hetero)sexual Politics, Taylor and Francis
M. Merck, et al eds. (1998) Coming Out of Feminism? Blackwell Especially article by
Biddle. Article based on dialogue between Butler and Rubin is also interesting.
S. Seidman, ed. (1996) Queer Theory/ Sociology Blackwell. Especially article by Plummer
and Stein I cant even think straight: Queer Theory and the Missing Revolution in
Sociology and those by Ingraham (listed separately below) and Epstein
M. Wittig One is not born a Woman, in K. Conboy, et al. (eds.), Writing on the Body,
Excerpt also in Jackson and Scott.
R.Alsop, et al (2002) Theorizing Gender Polity Chs. 4 and 5
S. Salih (2002) Judith Butler London, Routledge
S. Jackson (1999) Heterosexuality in Question Sage
M. McIntosh (1993) Queer Theory and the War of the Sexes in J. Bristow and A. Wilson
(eds.) Activating Theory Lawrence & Wishart.
A. Stein (1997) Sisters and Queers: The Decentring of Lesbian Feminism, in Lancaster
and di Leonardo, The Gender/Sexuality Reader, pp 378-391, Or in Socialist Review (1992)
Vol 20 (1) Jan-March, pp. 33-35
A. Jagose (1996) Queer Theory Melbourne University Press
A. Stein (1997) Sex and Sensibility: Stories of a Lesbian Generation, University of
California Press
B. Guter & Killackey, J.R. (2003) Queer Crips: Disabled Gay Men and Their Stories
Haworth Press
S. Jackson and S. Scott (2001) Putting the Bodys Feet on the Ground: Towards a
Sociological Reconceptualisation of Gendered and Sexual Embodiment in K. BackettMilburn and L. McKie, eds. Constructing Gendered Bodies Palgrave, pp. 13-24

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Week 20 The legal recognition of gay and lesbian partnerships

Class reading;
CE K. Weston (1991) Families We Choose Columbia University Press, Chapter 8, pp. 195213.
B. Shipman and C. Smart (2007) Its made a huge difference: Recognition, Rights and
the Personal Significance of Civil Partnership, Sociological Research Online 12 (1).
J. Gabb (2001) Querying the Discourses of Love European Journal of Womens Studies 8
(3): 313-328.
Focal questions:
Do you agree with Giddens that intimacy in contemporary societies has been transformed?
What is meant by the pure relationship? What are the constraints to a pure relationship?
How far have they been transcended?
To what extent are the rights of lesbian and gay people to family life still restricted by law,
prejudice or other social pressures?
Why have conservative, moralist forces opposed the legal recognition of non-heterosexual
partnerships?
Why have some queer activists and commentators opposed making the legal recognition of
non-heterosexual partnerships a priority for sexual minorities and their campaigns?
How far does the legal recognition of same sex partnerships challenge heteronormativity?
Are heterosexual and lesbian and gay life styles becoming more alike?
Recommended reading
C.Smart (2006) Gay and Lesbian Marriage. Core Research Findings. Available at
http://www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/morgancentre/research/gay-lesbian-marriage/
R. Harding (2008) Recognizing (and Resisting) Regulation: Attitudes to the Introduction
of Civil Partnership, Sexualities 11(6) 740-760.
B.Shipman and C.Smart (2006) Its made a huge difference: Recognition, Rights and
the Personal Significance of Civil Partnerships, Sociological Research Online 12 (1)
http://socresonline.org.uk/12/1/shipman.html
See also,with regard to the same research project,
http://www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/morgancentre/research/gay-lesbian-marriage/
which includes link to radio interview with Smart.
Feminism and Psychology Vol 14, No 1, 2004. Several useful articles, including R.
Auchmuty
A. R. Wilson (2007) With friends like these: The liberalization of queer family policy
Critical Social Policy 27, 1: 50-76.
S. Roseneil and S. Budgeon (2004) Cultures of Intimacy and Care Beyond the Family:
Personal Life and Social Change in the Early 21st Century Current Sociology 52(2) 135-

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139.
K. Plummer (2001) The Square of Intimate Citizenship: Some Preliminary Proposals
Citizenship Studies Vol. 5, no 3, 237-328. This issue contains other articles of interest also.
J. Gabb (2001) Desirous Subjects and Parental Identities: Constructing a Radical
Discourse on (Lesbian) Family Sexuality Sexualities Vol. 4 (3)
J. Gabb (2004) Critical Differentials: Querying the Incongruities within Research on
Lesbian...Sexualities 7: 167-182.
Special issue of Sexualities (2008) 11 (6) on Same-Sex relationships. See especially the
articles by Peel and Harding, Nicol and Smith, Harding, Smart, Lewis and Weeks.
Printed sources
K. Weston (1991) Families We Choose Columbia University Press
L. Johnston and G. Valentine (1995) Wherever I lay my girlfriend, thats my home: The
performance and surveillance of lesbian identities in domestic environments in D. Bell and
G. Valentine, eds. Mapping Desire Routledge. See also Ch. 19
E. Silva and C. Smart, eds. (1999) The New Family? Sage 1999. Articles by Weeks et al
Everyday Experiments reprinted also in Weekss Making Sexual History), G. Dunne, A
Passion for Sameness, and David Morgan
J. Weeks (2007) The World We Have Won, Routledge. Pp. 135- 141, 145-151, 178-198.
C. Jagger and C. Wright, eds. (1999) Changing Family Values, Routledge. Articles by R.
Collier, Men, heterosexuality and the changing family: (Re)constructing fatherhood in law
and social policy and Kate ODonnell, Lesbian and Gay Families: Legal Perspectives.
J. Lewis (2001) The End of Marriage? Individualism and Intimate Relations, Cheltenham:
Edward Elgar.
G. Dunne (1999) A Passion for Sameness, in E. Silva and C. Smart, eds. The New
Family? Sage; or excerpt in J. Weeks et al. Sexualities and Society
A. Giddens (1992) The Transformations of Intimacy Polity. Excerpt also in J. Weeks et al.
Sexualities and Society (2003)
L. Jamieson (1998) Intimacy: Personal Relationships in Modern Society Polity. Excerpt in
J. Weeks et al Sexualities and Society (2003)
L. Jamieson (1999) Intimacy Transformed? A Critical Look at the Pure Relationship
Sociology Vol. 33, no 3
S. M. Cretney (2006) Same Sex Relationships: From Odious Crime to Gay Marriage,
OUP.
A.M. Smith (1997) The Good Homosexual and the Dangerous Queer in L. Segal, ed.
New Sexual Agendas Macmillan pp 214-231
D. Cooper and D. Herman (1995) Getting the Family Right in D.Herman and C Stychin,
eds. Legal Inversions: Lesbians, Gay Men and the Law Temple University Press See also
Chapters 4 and 5
J. Weeks (1991) Pretended Family Relationships in Against Nature Rivers Oram. Or in
Clarke, D (1991) Marriage, Domestic Life, and Social Change, Routledge.

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J. Weeks, et al., eds. (2001) Same Sex Intimacies: Families of Choice and other Life
Experiments Routledge
D. Bell and J. Binnie (2000) Sexual Citizenship: Law, Theory and Politics in J.
Richardson and R. Sandland, eds, Feminist Perspectives on Law and Theory Cavendish
S. Walters (2000) Wedding Bells and Baby Carriages: Heterosexuals Imagine Gay
Families; Gay Families Imagine Themselves in M.Andrews et al eds. Lines of Narrative
Routledge, pp 48-63
J. Butler (2004) Is Kinship always already heterosexual? Undoing Gender, Routledge
A. Stein (2005) Make Room for Daddy: Anxious Masculinity and Emergent
Homophobias in Neopatriarchal Politics Gender and Society, 19 (5):601-620.
C. Stychin (2002) A Queer Nation by Rights: European Integration, Sexual Identity
Politics, and the Discourse of Rights in K. Chedgzoy, et al eds. In a Queer Place Ashgate.
See also the article by M. Pratt, Post-Queer and Beyond the PACS: Contextualising
French Responses to the Civil Solidarity Pact in the same volume.