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Sex Matters: The Sexuality and Society Reader Paperback – Illustrated, Nov. 15 2018

by Mindy Stombier (Author), Dawn Baunach (Author), Wendy Simonds (Author),
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    978-0393623581
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    5th
  4. Publisher
    W.W. Norton & Company
  5. Publication date
    Nov. 15 2018
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    English
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    19.05 x 2.79 x 23.37 cm
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About the Author

Mindy Stombler is a senior lecturer in sociology at Georgia State University. Her research has focused on the production of sexual collective identities. For example, she explored how men in gay fraternities negotiated their dual identities of being gay and being Greek and how men in gay fraternities reproduced hegemonic masculinity. Her current research focuses on power relations and oral sex as well as a variety of pedagogical issues. For more information, please visit her website.

Dawn M. Baunach is an associate professor of sociology at Georgia State University. Her research interests include sexuality and gender inequalities, statistics and methodologies, social demography, and the sociology of food. She is currently studying various sexual attitudes and behaviors, including same-sex marriage, sexual prejudices, sexual disclosure, and bullying.

Elisabeth O. Burgess is the director of the Gerontology Institute and an associate professor of gerontology and sociology at Georgia State University. Her research interests focus on changes in intimate relations over the life course, including involuntary celibacy, sexuality and aging, and intergenerational relationships. In addition, Dr. Burgess writes on theories of aging and attitudes toward older adults.

Wendy Simonds is a professor of sociology at Georgia State University. She is the author of Abortion at Work: Ideology and Practice in a Feminist Clinic and Women and Self-Help Culture: Reading Between the Lines; coauthor with Barbara Katz Rothman of Centuries of Solace: Expressions of Maternal Grief in Popular Literature, and coauthor with Barbara Katz Rothman and Bari Meltzer Norman of Laboring On: Birth in Transition in the United States. She is currently the president of SSSP.

Elroi J. Windsor is an assistant professor of sociology at Salem College in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and incoming chair of SSSP's Sexual Behavior, Politics, and Communities division. Windsor's teaching and research interests include gender, sexuality, health, and embodiment. Most recently, Windsor researched the disparate regulation of transgender and cisgender consumers of surgical body modification.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ W.W. Norton & Company; 5th edition (Nov. 15 2018)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 752 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0393623580
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0393623581
  • Item weight ‏ : ‎ 1.1 kg
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 19.05 x 2.79 x 23.37 cm
  • Customer Reviews:
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Lea Grover

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Lea Grover began publishing her writing career when she was nine years old, with the publication of a poem inspired by Mussorgsky’s “Night on Bald Mountain.” Through adolescence, she was routinely included in poetry and literary journals and began studying prose after beginning college at fourteen. While following her polymath interests through seven universities and several years of national service, she continued to write and publish poetry and short stories.

In 2010 she began a parenting blog, Becoming SuperMommy. Now Lea freelances for The Washington Post, Cosmopolitan, Scary Mommy, and the sundry corners of the internet. In addition to writing, she is a book coach and public speaker, using her voice as a member of the RAINN Speakers Bureau, and speaking about sex positivity.

Lea Grover is represented by the Dee Mura Literary Agency. Her first memoir and children's book series are currently on submission.

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