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Sexualities: personal lives and social policy
- Editor:
- CARABINE Jean
- Publisher:
- Policy Press,|Open University
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 184p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
This book explores the choices that people make about their sexuality and how these can transform their personal lives. It analyses how social policy informs and responds to such choices through an examination of normative assumptions about sexuality and its role in forming, regulating and constituting welfare subjects, discourses, theories, provisions and practices. The authors illustrate that sexuality is simultaneously central and marginal to the concerns of social policy.They place particular emphasis on social policy as a site of regulation that restricts and constrains our personal lives, but also highlight how social policy might be used as an instrument of positive change.These processes are explored through such issues as: the significance of gender relations and identities in normative constructions of heterosexual marriage, the nuclear family and parenthood; the regulatory effects of policy-making on young people’s sexual experiences and activity and their strategies of resistance; and the normative standards of sexuality and the extent to which these have marginalized and silenced the sexuality of disabled people.