Selves, Symbols, and Sexualities

Dr. Weinberg is the author or editor of four books (two monographs and two edited volumes). He is Associate Editor of Ethnographic Studies and Sexuality & Culture and a referee for the Journal of Sexual Medicine. He is a contributor to The Routledge Handbook of Deviant Behavior, edited by the late Clifton Bryant (2012). Dr. Weinberg is currently working with data gathered from a sample of sadomasochists, who were interviewed about their coming-out experiences. Dr. Newmahr is an ethnographer and the author of Playing on the Edge: Sadomasochism, Risk and Intimacy (Indiana University Press, 2011), an ethnography of an SM community that theorizes risk-taking and emotion from an interactionist perspective. She is Associate Editor of Symbolic Interaction (Wiley-Blackwell). She has published several papers in sociology and interdisciplinary journals. Most recently, she completed an invited chapter for the anthology Life as Performance: A Dramaturgical Handbook (Ashgate, expected 2012) and an article on the eroticism of Renaissance Faire. She is also a contributor to The Routledge Handbook of Deviant Behavior (2012). She is currently working on her second monograph.

Part I. Theorizing Sex Ch.1 Sex, Symbolic Interactionism, and Social Constructionism by Chris Brickell Ch.2 Muscle and Blood: Erotic Fantasy in Theory and Practice by Don Kulick Ch.3 Stating Desire: Sexuality, the State, and Social Control by Misty Luminais Ch.4 Scripting Sexual Practice in Differing Social Contexts: Young Women Negotiating Mothers' Expectations in Hong Kong and Britain by Stevi Jackson and Petula Sik Ying Ho Ch.5 Sex as Theater: Action, Character and the Erotic by Charles Edgley Part II. Constructing Sexual Meanings Ch.6 Talking Sex: Parents, Schools, and Sexuality by Sinikka Elliott and Josephine Ngo McKelvy Ch.7 Techno-sexuality: The Sexual Pragmatists of the Technological Age by Dennis D. Waskul Ch.8 Painting Desire Pink: Meaning-Making at a Romance Sex Store by Alison Better Part III. Negotiating Sexual Selfhood Ch.9 "'Somewhere between Evangelical and Queer': Sexual-Religious Identity Work in an LGBT Christian Church by J. Edward Sumerau Ch.10 Negotiating Promiscuity: Straight Edge (sXe), Sex, and the Self by Jamie L. Mullaney Ch.11 The Challenges of Identity Formation for Bisexual-Multiracial Women of Asian/White Descent by Beverly Yuen Thompson Ch.12 "Give Me a Dominant of Any Gender Over Any Kind of Non-Dominant": Sexual Orientation Beyond Gender by Brandy L. Simula Part IV. Sex, Emotion, and Identity Ch.13 "Bittersweet" Emotions, Identities, and Sexualities: Insights From a Lesbian Community Space by Clare Forstie Ch.14 Not Necessarily Broken: Redefining Success When Polyamorous Relationships End by Elisabeth Sheff Ch.15 A Symbolic Interactionist Approach to Asexuality by Susie Scott, Matt Dawson, and Staci Newmahr Part V. Sexual Stories Ch.16 The Unfortunate Adventures of a Girl in the Know by Stella Meningkat Ch.17 Backroom "Dance" by Ruby Pearson Ch.18 A Conflicted Mind by John P. Ch.19 On Confessing One's Kink in a Sexuality Textbook by Tanya Bezreh Ch.20 Intersections of Vampirism and Sexuality: A Narrative Description of a Vampire Feeding by D J Williams Ch.21 Adjusting the Inner Face by Giselle Ridgeway