Long Slow Burn: Sexuality and Social Science

by Kath Weston

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415920442
• ISBN13: 9780415920445
• Release Date: September 1998
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary