Cosmopolitan sexualities : hope and the humanist imagination / Ken Plummer.

How are we to live with the wide varieties of sexuality and gender found across the rapidly changing global order? Whilst some countries have legislated in favour of same-sex marriage and the United Nations makes declarations about gender and sexual equality, many countries across the world employ p...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Plummer, Kenneth
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity Press, [2015]
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Physical Description:xiv, 281 pages ; 23 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Plural sexualities : making valued human lives
  • Transformational sexualities : making twenty-first-century sexual lives
  • Cosmopolitan sexualities : living with different lives
  • Cultural sexualities : cultivating awareness of complexity
  • Contested sexualities : inventing enemies, making boundaries
  • Communicative sexualities : on the hope and empathy for a common global humanity
  • Epilogue: contingent sexualities : dancing into the sexual labyrinth.