Long Slow Burn: Sexuality and Social Science (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780415920445)

Kath Weston's powerful collection of essays, Long, Slow Burn, challenges the preconception that queer studies is the brainchild of the humanities and argues that social science has been talking about sex all along. To deny this one would have to overlook Kinsey's pioneering sex research in the 1950s, or the psychiatrist Evelyn Hooker's pathbreaking study of homosexuality, but also in the "sex talk" that lies at the heart of classic debates on kinship, inequality, cognition, and other foundational topics in the social sciences. What is different now, Weston claims, is the way sexuality has been isolated from other contemporary issues. Not content with its ghettoization as a contained subfield, Weston refuses to draw an artificial line around sexuality.

Author: Kath Weston
ISBN-10: 0415920442
ISBN-13: 9780415920445
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 07/27/1998
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.82lbs
Size: 9.03h x 6.03w x 0.62d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 10/01/1998 pg. 122