Telling Sexual Stories: Power, Change and Social WorldsThis book explores the rites of a sexual story-telling culture and examines the nature of these newly emerging narratives and the socio-historical conditions that have given rise to them. |
Contents
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An invitation to a sociology of stories | 18 |
Making sexual stories | 32 |
Coming out breaking the silence and recovering Introducing some modernist tales | 49 |
Womens culture and rape stories | 62 |
The modernisation of gay and lesbian stories | 81 |
Recovery tales | 97 |
The tale and its time | 113 |
The shifting sexual stories of late modernity | 131 |
Intimate citizenship The politics of sexual story telling | 144 |
Epilogue Beyond stories? The pragmatics of story telling | 167 |
Notes | 181 |
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