Sexual Minority Research In The New Millennium. Forthcoming 2011.
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This new book presents current research focusing on sexual minorities. Topics discussed include gay and lesbian parenthood; asexuality; media representations of trebly marginalized minorities; the effect of imaged contact on heterosexual women’s attitudes toward lesbian women; the high-school experiences of sexual and gender minority youth and best practices in the development of interventions designed to attenuate homonegativity. The final entry is a “virtual discussion” in which contributors responded to a set of questions that focused on key issues in the field of sexual minority studies. (Imprint: Nova Press)
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Table of Contents:
1. Introduction2. “How Do You Know You Don’t Like It If You Haven’t Tried It?” Asexual Agency and the Sexual Assumption (Mark A. Carrigan)3. Asexuality: An Emergent Sexual Orientation (Stephanie B. Gazzola & Melanie A. Morrison)4. Contextual Factors Associated with Childbearing Decisions among Lesbian Couples Planning a Family (Annie Leblond de Brumath and Danielle Julien) 5. A Phenomenological Investigation of Gay Fatherhood in Alberta (Robert A. Roughley and Kevin G. Alderson) 6. Perceptions of Support among Australian Lesbian and Gay Foster Carers 7. African American Lesbians Watching ‘The L Word’: Audience Research (Sheena C. Howard and Michele K. Lewis) 8. Left Behind: Sexual and Gender Minority Students in Canadian High Schools in the New Millennium 9. “It’s like a bunch of mosquitoes coming at you…”: Exploring the Ubiquitous Nature of Subtle Discrimination and its Implications for the Everyday Experiences of LGB Individuals 10. A Test of Prejudice Reduction towards Lesbian Women: The Effects of Imaginary Contact on Explicit and Implicit Homonegativity 11. Modifying heterosexuals’ negative attitudes and behaviours toward gay men and lesbian women: Recommended practices for the design of attitudinal and behavioural change interventions 12. Beyond Labels: A “Virtual” Discussion |
Asexuality Studies. Forthcoming 2012.
| This volume will be an edited book focusing on all aspects of asexuality and the asexual community. It will collect cutting-edge research across all areas relating to this with the intention of constituting the foundational text for the burgeoning field of asexuality studies.Asexuals are commonly defined as “a person who does not experience sexual attraction” and research estimates their prevalence at 1% of the population. Yet it is only in the last ten years that this sexual orientation has come to be recognised and until recently there has been a lack of published academic research in the area.
However asexuality has been the subject of increasing media attention, with some high profile television and popular press coverage. This is resulting in a new found academic interest in asexuality and a great deal of research is currently being conducted in a number of disciplines. |
