Judith M. Stephenson, John Imrie, and Chris Bonell (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- September 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780198508496
- eISBN:
- 9780191723797
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198508496.001.0001
- Subject:
- Public Health and Epidemiology, Public Health, Epidemiology
The growing importance of the evidence-based movement has made experimental evaluation a key issue among researchers, practitioners, commissioners, and policy makers. However, experimental evaluation ...
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The growing importance of the evidence-based movement has made experimental evaluation a key issue among researchers, practitioners, commissioners, and policy makers. However, experimental evaluation remains controversial in the sexual health field. This partly reflects the diversity of groups involved in this area and their different views on the most appropriate research methods. This book provides an analysis of the methodological and practical issues involved in evaluating sexual health interventions. This book contains discussion of specific issues in trial design, and also discusses the potential of experimentation and its appropriateness or feasibility. It is concerned with methodology rather than the substantive findings of research, and considers the requirements of research in both developed and developing countries. The focus of the book is on sexual health interventions, although many of the issues are equally applicable to other areas of behavioural and social research.Less
The growing importance of the evidence-based movement has made experimental evaluation a key issue among researchers, practitioners, commissioners, and policy makers. However, experimental evaluation remains controversial in the sexual health field. This partly reflects the diversity of groups involved in this area and their different views on the most appropriate research methods. This book provides an analysis of the methodological and practical issues involved in evaluating sexual health interventions. This book contains discussion of specific issues in trial design, and also discusses the potential of experimentation and its appropriateness or feasibility. It is concerned with methodology rather than the substantive findings of research, and considers the requirements of research in both developed and developing countries. The focus of the book is on sexual health interventions, although many of the issues are equally applicable to other areas of behavioural and social research.
Mimi Schippers
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781479801596
- eISBN:
- 9781479895342
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479801596.003.0005
- Subject:
- Sociology, Marriage and the Family
The author argues that compulsory monogamy is not just about relationship form, but also translates into the normalization and strict enforcement of dyadic sex as the only legitimate kind of sexual ...
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The author argues that compulsory monogamy is not just about relationship form, but also translates into the normalization and strict enforcement of dyadic sex as the only legitimate kind of sexual interaction. To the extent that the only normative way to have sex is in pairs, compulsory monogamy fixes (1) sexual orientation as defined by the gender of the object of one’s desire and (2) the phenomenological embodiment of gendered subjectivity within temporally and spatially bounded erotic interactions. The author introduces the threesome imaginary as a mononormative, collective fantasy of non-dyadic sexual interactions and as a structuring feature of the sexual field and erotic habitus. By contrasting the heteromasculine fantasy of a threesome with two women with a polyqueer fantasy of a threesome involving a woman and two men, the author probes how erotic threesomes involving two straight men and one woman offer a phenomenological opportunity to queer the embodiment of heteromasculinity and shift the sexual field in ways that will transform the heteromasculine and heterofeminine erotic habitus.Less
The author argues that compulsory monogamy is not just about relationship form, but also translates into the normalization and strict enforcement of dyadic sex as the only legitimate kind of sexual interaction. To the extent that the only normative way to have sex is in pairs, compulsory monogamy fixes (1) sexual orientation as defined by the gender of the object of one’s desire and (2) the phenomenological embodiment of gendered subjectivity within temporally and spatially bounded erotic interactions. The author introduces the threesome imaginary as a mononormative, collective fantasy of non-dyadic sexual interactions and as a structuring feature of the sexual field and erotic habitus. By contrasting the heteromasculine fantasy of a threesome with two women with a polyqueer fantasy of a threesome involving a woman and two men, the author probes how erotic threesomes involving two straight men and one woman offer a phenomenological opportunity to queer the embodiment of heteromasculinity and shift the sexual field in ways that will transform the heteromasculine and heterofeminine erotic habitus.
Angela Jones
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- September 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781479842964
- eISBN:
- 9781479829422
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479842964.003.0008
- Subject:
- Sociology, Law, Crime and Deviance
This chapter considers how the online context shapes display work, the economic outcomes of display work, and the experiences of display workers. Echoing Mears and Connell’s research, data from the ...
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This chapter considers how the online context shapes display work, the economic outcomes of display work, and the experiences of display workers. Echoing Mears and Connell’s research, data from the present study shows that in camming female cam models outearn their male counterparts. The structure of desire in the camming field privileges women—albeit in uneven ways—because even though both trans women and cis women outpace men in earnings, trans and cis women’s bodies are valued differently and they have qualitatively different experiences of work. Using the sexual fields framework, this chapter examines how performers develop sexual capital by crafting “manufactured identities” and designing performances in ways that adhere to the logic of the camming field. In order to make money, performers must deliver performances of sex that are valued by participants within this sexual field. While many performers are hesitant to be dishonest about their identities because they know authenticity and realness are crucial in camming, many also change aspects of their identities on their profiles to enhance their marketability through the normative performance of sex. Using an intersectional framework, this chapter examines how cam models strategically perform femininities and masculinities in ways that adhere to the logic of the camming field.Less
This chapter considers how the online context shapes display work, the economic outcomes of display work, and the experiences of display workers. Echoing Mears and Connell’s research, data from the present study shows that in camming female cam models outearn their male counterparts. The structure of desire in the camming field privileges women—albeit in uneven ways—because even though both trans women and cis women outpace men in earnings, trans and cis women’s bodies are valued differently and they have qualitatively different experiences of work. Using the sexual fields framework, this chapter examines how performers develop sexual capital by crafting “manufactured identities” and designing performances in ways that adhere to the logic of the camming field. In order to make money, performers must deliver performances of sex that are valued by participants within this sexual field. While many performers are hesitant to be dishonest about their identities because they know authenticity and realness are crucial in camming, many also change aspects of their identities on their profiles to enhance their marketability through the normative performance of sex. Using an intersectional framework, this chapter examines how cam models strategically perform femininities and masculinities in ways that adhere to the logic of the camming field.
Danielle Antoinette Hidalgo and Tracy Royce
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- November 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780824852962
- eISBN:
- 9780824869113
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824852962.003.0004
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Asian Cultural Anthropology
This chapter builds upon Adam Isaiah Green’s concept of the sexual field and examines how genders and sexualities are embodied, enacted and contested on nightclub dance floors in Bangkok, Thailand. ...
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This chapter builds upon Adam Isaiah Green’s concept of the sexual field and examines how genders and sexualities are embodied, enacted and contested on nightclub dance floors in Bangkok, Thailand. In the chapter, Hidalgo and Royce map out and analyze three separate enactments of embodied resistance to the general rules and regulations for doing gender and sexuality, i.e., mocking ideal gay masculinity via impromptu tabletop dancing, resisting hegemonic Thai femininity via the Cabaret Show, and masculine transformation via negotiating the dance floor. In all of these episodes, clubbers or performers located outside of the sexual field (or lower on its tiers of desirability) used humor and playfulness as a means of disrupting the serious business of the club’s gender and sexual hierarchies.Less
This chapter builds upon Adam Isaiah Green’s concept of the sexual field and examines how genders and sexualities are embodied, enacted and contested on nightclub dance floors in Bangkok, Thailand. In the chapter, Hidalgo and Royce map out and analyze three separate enactments of embodied resistance to the general rules and regulations for doing gender and sexuality, i.e., mocking ideal gay masculinity via impromptu tabletop dancing, resisting hegemonic Thai femininity via the Cabaret Show, and masculine transformation via negotiating the dance floor. In all of these episodes, clubbers or performers located outside of the sexual field (or lower on its tiers of desirability) used humor and playfulness as a means of disrupting the serious business of the club’s gender and sexual hierarchies.
