Monthly Archives: March 2015

Nagel, J. 2003. Race, Ethnicity, and Sexuality: Intimate Intersections, Forbidden Frontiers.

Nagel, Joane. 2003. Race, Ethnicity, and Sexuality: Intimate Intersections, Forbidden Frontiers. New York: Oxford University Press. Sex Matters “Differences of color, culture, country, ancestry, language, and religion are the materials out of which ethnic, racial, and national identities and boundaries are built” (1) – ethnicity and sexuality intertwine to reinforce boundaries of morality, desirability, and […]

Anderson, B. 1991. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origins and Spread of Nationalism.

Anderson, Benedict. 1991. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origins and Spread of Nationalism, Revised Edition. New York: Verso. Introduction: Since WWII every successful revolution has defined self through national terms – Marxist/nationalist, subnationalism within borders. Difficulties in navigating objectivity in historical experience, versus antiquity in nationalists’ view (^this presumes that historians have some sort of […]

Seidman, S. 2015. The Social Construction of Sexuality.

Seidman, Steven. 2015. The Social Construction of Sexuality, 3rd edition. New York: W.W. Norton Social factions shape when, with whom, how we engaged in sex – “Social factors determin which desires are sexual and which serve as identities, which desires and identities are acceptable, and what forms of sexual intimacy are considered appropriate” (x) – […]