Description:
Highlighting the work taking place at the crossroads of sociology, sexuality
studies, gender studies, cultural studies, and performance studies, this series
offers a platform for scholars pushing the boundaries of gender and sexuality
studies substantively, theoretically, and stylistically. The authors draw on
insights from diverse scholarship and research in popular culture, ethnography,
history, cinema, religion, performance, new media studies, and technoscience
studies to render visible the complex manner in which gender and
sexuality intersect and can, at times, create tensions and fissures between one
another. Encouraging breadth in terms of both scope and theme, the series
editors seek works that explore the multifaceted domain of gender and sexuality
in a manner that challenges the taken-for-granted. On one hand, the
series foregrounds the pleasure, pain, politics, and aesthetics at the nexus of
sexual practice and gendered expression. On the other, it explores new sites
for the expression of gender and sexuality—the new geographies of intimacy
being constituted at both the local and global scales.