Theorizing Intersectionality and Sexuality

290 Pages·2010·1.332 MB·English

by  Yvette Taylor, Sally Hines, Mark E. Casey (eds.)

Theorizing Intersectionality and Sexuality
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Genders and Sexualities in the Social Sciences
Series Editors: Victoria Robinson, University of Sheffield, UK and Diane Richardson,
University of Newcastle, UK
Editorial Board: Raewyn Connell, University of Sydney, Australia, Kathy
Davis, Utrecht University, The Netherlands, Stevi Jackson, University of York,
UK, Michael Kimmel, State University of New York, Stony Brook, USA, Kimiko
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Manchester, UK, Liz Stanley, University of Edinburgh, UK, Gill Valentine, University
of Leeds, UK, Jeffrey Weeks, South Bank University, UK, Kath Woodward, The Open
University, UK
The study of gender and sexuality has developed dramatically over recent years, with
a changing theoretical landscape that has seen innovative work emerge on identity,
the body and embodiment, queer theory, technology, space, and the concept of
gender itself. There has been an increasing focus on sexuality and new theorizing on
masculinities. This exciting series will take account of these developments, empha-
sizing new, original work that engages both theoretically and empirically with the
themes of gender, sexuality, and, crucially, their intersections, to set a new, vibrant
and contemporary international agenda for research in this area.
Titles include:
Yvette Taylor, Sally Hines and Mark E. Casey (editors)
THEORIZING INTERSECTIONALITY AND SEXUALITY
Victoria Robinson and Jenny Hockey
MASCULINITIES IN TRANSITION
Genders and Sexualities in the Social Sciences
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Theorizing Intersectionality
and Sexuality
Edited by
Yvette Taylor
Newcastle University, UK
Sally Hines
University of Leeds, UK
and
Mark E. Casey
Newcastle University, UK
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Theorizing intersectionality and sexuality / edited by Yvette Taylor,
Sally Hines, Mark E. Casey.
p. cm. — (Genders and sexualities in the social sciences)
1. Sex. 2. Gender identity. 3. Social classes. 4. Spatial behavior. I. Taylor,
Yvette, 1978– II. Hines, Sally. III. Casey, Mark E.
HQ23.T524 2010
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Contents
List of Figure and Tables vii
Acknowledgements viii
Notes on Contributors ix
Introduction 1
Yvette Taylor, Sally Hines and Mark Casey
Part I Complexities and Complications – Intersectional
(Re)Runs
1 Me, Myself, and I 15
Kath Weston
2 Complexities and Complications: Intersections of Class
and Sexuality 37
Yvette Taylor
3 On the Depoliticisation of Intersectionality Talk:
Conceptualising Multiple Oppressions in Critical
Sexuality Studies 56
Umut Erel, Jin Haritaworn, Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez
and Christian Klesse
4 ‘Try Again. Fail Again. Fail Better.’ Queer Interdependencies
as Corrective Methodologies 78
Elahe Haschemi Yekani, Beatrice Michaelis and Gabriele Dietze
Part II Lived Experiences, Intersecting Lives
5 Intersectionality and Sexuality: The Case of Sexuality
and Transgender Equalities Work in UK Local Government 99
Surya Monro and Diane Richardson
6 Thinking Intersectionality: Sexualities and the Politics
of Multiple Identities 119
James Joseph Dean
7 Sexing Gender; Gendering Sex: Towards an Intersectional
Analysis of Transgender 140
Sally Hines
8 Desistence from Sex Work: Feminist Cultural Criminology
and Intersectionality – the Complexities of Moving In and
Out of Sex Work 163
Maggie O’Neill and Rosie Campbell
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vi Contents
Part III Operationalising Intersectionality
9 Sexualities Sociologies and the Intersectional Potential
of Two Qualitative Methodologies 193
Kendal Broad
10 The Language of Intersectionality: Researching ‘Lesbian’
Identity in Urban Russia 212
Francesca Stella
11 Multiplex Methodologies: Researching Young People’s
Well-Being at the Intersections of Class, Sexuality,
Gender and Age 235
Elizabeth McDermott
12 Bent: Non-Normative Embodiment as Lived Intersectionality 255
Kay Inckle
Index 274
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List of Figure and Tables
Figure
8.1 Curriculum vitae (with kind permission of community
artist Kate Green) 178
Tables
8.1 Reasons for returning to sex work 171
11.1 Sample details for online interview participants 244
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Acknowledgements
Thanks are due to all contributors in this collection for their enthusiasm
and engagement throughout, and to publishers for allowing reprints of the
following material: Chapter 1 was originally published in Weston, K. (1996)
Render Me, Gender Me: Lesbians Talk Sex, Class, Color, Nation, Studdmuffins . . .,
New York: Columbia University Press. A version of Chapter 2 was originally
published in Taylor, Y. (2009) ‘Complexities and Complications: Intersections
of Class and Sexuality’, Lesbian Studies Special Issue 13(2): 189–203.
A version of Chapter 3 was originally published as Erel, U., Haritaworn, J.,
Rodríguez, E. G., Klesse, C., ‘On the Depoliticisation of Intersectionality
Talk: Conceptualising Multiple Oppressions in Critical Sexuality Studies’,
in A. Kuntsman and E. Miyake (2008) Out of Place. Interrogating Silences in
Queerness/Raciality. University of York: Raw Nerve Books. Chapter 4 is a
translation from the original chapter ‘Checks and Balances’ by Dietze, G.,
Haschemi, E. and Michaelis, B. (pp. 107–39) in Katharina Walgenbach, u.a
(2007) Gender als interdependente Kategorie. Barbara Budrich Publishers.
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Notes on Contributors
Kendal Broad has a PhD in Sociology (1998) from Washington State
University and is currently an Associate Professor, jointly appointed with
the Center for Women’s Studies and Gender Research and the Department
of Sociology at the University of Florida in the US. Broad’s work can be
characterised as feminist-inspired Sexualities Studies that focus on the inter-
pretive work of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender & Queer (LGBTQ)
movements in the US. Broad’s previous work includes analysis of the social
construction of hate crimes by social movement actors (with Valerie Jenness)
and the interpretive work of transsexual and transgender activists. Broad’s
recent work includes analyses of meaning-making work by heterosexual
allies in the mainstream LGBTQ movement in the US in the late 1990s.
Presently, Broad is writing about articulations of ‘love advocacy’ in contests
over LGBTQ families in the US from 1999–2009 and conducting research
about anti-racist work by gay men. Broad’s publications have appeared in
such journals as Qualitative Sociology, The Sociological Quarterly, Sociological
Perspectives, and Research in Political Sociology.
Rosie Campbell is a sociologist who has carried out applied research on
sex work and sexual exploitation for 14 years. She has published widely on
the topic of sex work in the UK, where her research has taken place in a
number of regions. This has involved consultation with all those involved
and affected by sex work and has often been participatory in nature. Rosie is
co-editor of the book Sex Work Now (Willan Publishing, 2006), with Maggie
O’Neill. As a founder member, and Chair (2002–9), of the UK Network of
Sex Work Projects she has worked with sex work projects throughout the
UK. She has been involved in the development of good practice guidance
for service interventions for sex workers and has been involved in develop-
ing policies and services related to sex work at a local, regional and national
level. She is currently a freelance research, policy and training consultant.
Mark Casey is a lecturer in Sociology at Newcastle University where he
teaches in the areas of sexuality, gender and tourism. He is currently
involved in a research project with Dr Yvette Taylor and Michelle Addison
examining the everyday lives of lesbian and gay men in the North East
of England. He has recently been writing around gay male identity, travel
and sex, publishing a chapter titled ‘Even Poor Gays Travel: Excluding Low
Income Gay Men from Understandings of Gay Tourism’ in Taylor, Y. (ed.)
(2010) Classed Intersections: Spaces, Selves, Knowledge. Mark has a growing
interest in the intersection between sociological understandings to gay
men’s identities and approaches used by those working in mental health.
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