Long Slow Burn: Sexuality and Social Science

Kath Weston

Psychology Press, 1998 - Art - 265 pages

Kath Weston's powerful collection of essays, Long, SlowBurn, challenges the preconception that queer studies is the brainchild of the humanities and argues that social science has been talking about sex all along. To deny this one would have to overlook Kinsey's pioneering sex research in the 1950s, or the psychiatrist Evelyn Hooker's pathbreaking study of homosexuality, but also in the "sex talk" that lies at the heart of classic debates on kinship, inequality, cognition, and other foundational topics in the social sciences. What is different now, Weston claims, is the way sexuality has been isolated from other contemporary issues. Not content with its ghettoization as a contained subfield, Weston refuses to draw an artificial line around sexuality.

Contents

• the bubble the burn and the simmer: 1
• get thee to a big city: 29
• forever is a long time: 57
• made to order: 83
• sexuality class and conflict: 115
• theory theory whos got the theory?: 143
• lesbiangay studies: 147
• requiem for a street fighter: 177

About the author

Kath Weston is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Arizona State University West. She is the author of Families We Choose: Lesbians, Gays, Kinship (1991) and Render Me, Gender Me: Lesbians Talk Sex, Class, Color, Nation, Studmuffins... (1996).

Bibliographic information

• Title: Long Slow Burn: Sexuality and Social Science
• Author: Kath Weston
• Publisher: Psychology Press, 1998
• ISBN: 0415920434, 9780415920438
• Length: 265 pages
• Subjects: Art / Popular Culture; Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social; Social Science / Gender Studies; Social Science / LGBTQ+ Studies / Gay Studies; Social Science / LGBTQ+ Studies / General; Social Science / LGBTQ+ Studies / Lesbian Studies; Social Science / Sociology / General