Changing Femininities, Changing Masculinities Social Change, Gender Identities and Sexual Orientations

The aim of this special issue of Sociological Research Online launches is to explore, both theoretically and substantively, the issues that surround notions of social change, gender identities and sexual orientations. The social issues associated with changing gender identities and the shift between “old” and “new” models of femininity and masculinity challenges the two-gender system. Homosexuality, bisexuality and trans-sexuality show how greatly the processes of identity construction have changed in present-day societies and how different they are in these processes, compared with those of modern or traditional societies. However, these issues are often neglected by existing social agendas, including policies on gender equality and social exclusion. Social institutions are often intolerant of gender diversity. Many areas of social and economic life "for example the right to motherhood-fatherhood" need to be reviewed to ensure full citizens’ rights for non heterosexual people, and to reduce the power of heteronormativity. In many European countries heterosexuality and marriage have long been protected by law and still give access to various rights under social security. Also, there has been a general lack of attention (and a lack of comparative research) to the complex intersection between forms of social disadvantage such as gender and sexual orientation. These obstacles have profound impacts on homosexual, bisexual, transgender and transsexual people’s lives. Whilst their experiences are very diverse, they share the experience of living in a society where gender diversity is not fully tolerated, and where social institutions act to perpetuate the erasure of gender fluidity

Geography · Sociology · Gender Roles and Identity Studies · Gender Studies

• Trans governmentality

  Tam Sanger•Journal of Gender Studies•2008

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• Mothering and Governing

  Jaime Loke, Dustin Harp et al.•Journalism Studies•2010

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• Paradoxes of gender

  Judith Lorber•Paradoxes of gender•1994

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• The Transformation of Intimacy

  Anthony Giddens•The transformation of intimacy•1992

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• Gender and the Politics of History

  Joan Wallach Scott•Gender and the Politics of History•1988

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• Essays in Sociological Theory

  Talcott Parsons•Essays in Sociological Theory•1964

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