Publication details

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Place: Basingstoke

Year: 2007

Series: The Future of Minority Studies

ISBN (Hardback): 9780230619654

ISBN (eBook): 9781137051738

Full citation:

William Wilkerson, Ambiguity and sexuality, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007

Ambiguity and sexuality

William Wilkerson

Contents

Introduction

the question of sexual identity

1-11

Starting with experience

13-30

The shape of experience

31-47

Desire by itself

49-57

Desire in relation to others

59-68

Social identities

69-86

Choosing our sexuality and sexual identity as project

87-103

Science and sexual orientation

105-128

Reality and ambiguity in sexual identity

129-135

Social constructionism and essentialism

137-155

Subjection, liberation, and the future

157-173

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