Abstract
In this article we seek to rehabilitate the radical insights of the pragmatist/interactionist tradition and to establish its continued relevance to a distinctively sociological and feminist analysis of sexuality. We argue for the importance of the contribution of Gagnon and Simon in arguing for a fully social understanding of sexuality. We offer an account of the process whereby interactionism has been rendered all but invisible and make a case for recovering its insights. We argue that interactionism accounts for the processes through which sexuality is constituted culturally, inter-personally and intrapsychically and addresses the actualities of everyday social practices and is therefore ideally suited to grappling with the complexities of contemporary sexual life.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 811-826 |
Number of pages | 16 |
Journal | Sociology |
Volume | 44 |
Issue number | 5 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 1 Oct 2010 |
Keywords
- interactionism
- sociology
- gender
- sexual scripts
- feminism
- sexuality