Description

This book assembles a diverse group of scholars working within a new, pathbreaking paradigm of sexual science, fusing perspectives from history, sociology, and psychology. The contributors are united in their commitment to the idea of "narrative" as central to the study of sexual identity, offering an analytic approach to social science inquiry on sexual identity that restores the voices of sexual subjects. The result is a rich examination of lives in context, with an eye toward multiplicity and meaning across the life course. Central to the chapters in this volume is the significance of history, generation, and narrative in the provision of a workable and meaningful configuration of identity.

Features

• The book is novel in its assemblage of scholars committed to a narrative approach to sexual identity.
• Hammack and Cohler propose an interdisciplinary paradigm for sexual science that fuses perspectives from history, sociology, and psychology.

Reviews

"Hammack and Cohler's The Story of Sexual Identity brings together an unparalleled collection of innovative interdisciplinary narrative research projects on lesbian and gay lives. The result is a volume that pushes the study of sexual identity in many new and promising directions....It has far-reaching appeal for established students and clinicians, as well as for new investigators and graduate students. No doubt it will be useful tool and much-referenced resource for those conducting narrative research on sexuality and sexual identity."--Journal of Gay & Lesbian Mental Health

Product Details

496 pages; 100 line illus.; 6-1/8 x 9-1/4; ISBN13: 978-0-19-532678-9ISBN10: 0-19-532678-4

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