New Books in Sex, Sexuality, and Sex Work
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| Publishes | Twice weekly | Episodes | 471 | Founded | 5 years ago |
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Timothy Gitzen's Unscripting the Present (SUNY Press, 2025) interrogates contemporary sex panics in the United States, looking especially at popular culture texts to conceptualize queer youth survival strategies. Sex panics saturate contemporary disc... more
How well do we understand our relationship to sex? According to Oliver Davis and Tim Dean, authors of the new book Hatred of Sex (University of Nebraska Press, 2022), we tend to overlook the “unpleasurable pleasures” that are integral to sex. Sex und... more
Drag: A British History (University of California Press, 2023) is a groundbreaking study of the sustained popularity and changing forms of male drag performance in modern Britain. With this book, Jacob Bloomfield provides fresh perspectives on drag a... more
In the 1970s, the invention of the home pregnancy test changed what it means to be pregnant. For the first time, women could use a technology in the privacy of their own homes that gave them a yes or no answer. That answer had the power to change the... more
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Focused on themes surrounding sex, sexuality, and sex work, this podcast provides academic insights through conversations between scholars and experts in the field. Topics span cultural history, gender studies, reproductive rights, and the evolution of societal attitudes toward sexual practices, including drag, sex education, and modern implications of sexual violence. Each episode showcases new research and encourages critical discussions relevant to the complexities of sexual identities and the socio-economic factors that shape them. The unique dedication to thorough academic discourse combined with an accessible format invites listeners from diverse backgrounds to engage with contemporary issues of sexuality.
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