Abstract

Preface and Acknowledgements - Notes on Contributors - Introduction J.Holland & L.Adkins - PART 1: THE FAMILY AND GENDERED IDENTITIES - Gender, Care and Sensibility in Family and Kin Relationships J.Mason - The Political Economy of Romance: Popular Culture, Social Divisions and Social Reconstruction in Wartime P.Allatt - The Single Mothers' Debate: A Children's Rights Perspective S.Laws - Girls' Own Story: The Search for a Sexual Identity in Times of Family Change C.Mann - PART 2: BODIES, MEDICALISATION AND CONTROL - Breast-Feeding and the Social Construction of Heterosexuality or 'what breasts are really for' P.Carter - Women hearing Men: The Cervical Smear Test and the Social Construction of Sexuality L.McKie - Discourses on the Menopause and Female Sexual Identity G.Darke - PART 3: THE CONSTRUCTION OF HETEROSEXUALITY - Contradictions in Discourse: Gender, Sexuality and HIV/AIDS D.Richardson - Gender and Sexuality in the Social Construction of Rape and Consensual Sex: A Study of Process and Outcome in Six Recent Rape Trials A.Edwards - Keeping Them in Their Place: Hetero/sexist Harassment, Gender and the Enforcement of Heterosexuality D.Epstein - Desperately Seeking Post-Heterosexual Woman C.Smart - Index

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