Critical Sexualities Studies

The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Sociology

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 243-268

  Plummer, Ken ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

"liquid love"; Critical sexuality studies; CSS, and sexuality, social; Global, AIDS, multiple "sexscapes"; Human sexualities; Neophyte, studies; New CSS; Sexual cosmopolitanism; sexual cultures, human life ways; Socially constructed script

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883665353     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444347388.ch14     Document Type: Chapter

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