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A sociology of sex and sexuality

by Gail Hawkes

This historical sociological analysis examines how ideas about sex and sexuality have developed within modernity. It questions whether contemporary anxieties persist and analyses if Queer politics has challenged binary sexual categories.

Accession 1641 ISBN 0335193161 Publisher Open University Press
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