The male in the head : young people, heterosexuality and power / by Janet Holland [and others].
Material type: TextPublisher: London : Tufnell, 2004Edition: Second editionDescription: xiii, 211 pages ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1872767478
- 9781872767475
- 306.764 22
Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 306.764 MAL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A378732B |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Introduction: Sex, gender and power -- 2. Positioning ourselves, representing others -- 3. The contradictions of condoms: Femininity, masculinity and sexual risk -- 4. Learning about sex: The gendering of sexual knowledge -- 5. Languages if love: Stories, lines and secrets -- 6. When bodies come together: Power, control and desire -- 7. Empowered women -- 8. Empowered men -- 9. The-male-in-the-head -- 10. Unnatural heterosexuality: Resistance and change.
"Young people talk frankly about sex and relationships in this detailed investigation of the social construction of sexuality. In a period of sexual uncertainty and change, their eloquent and often moving accounts of sexual risk and safety provide the basis for a theory of male dominated heterosexuality. The process of constructing this theory and the problems confronted by feminist research on heterosexuality are described in The Male in the Head, which presents the main empirical findings of the WRAP-Women, Risk and AIDS project and the MRAP-Men, Risk and AIDS project."--Publisher's website.
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