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Revisiting Sexualities and Health
Edited by Victor Minichiello and David Plummer
School of Health, Faculty of Education, Health and Professional Studies, University of New England, Armidale, Australia
ISBN13: 978-0-9757422-5-9 iv + 92 pages s/c August 2006
Sexual health involves complex and interdependent relationships between biology, psychology and socio-historical-cultural factors. Late modernity has witnessed a growing critique of discourses which frame sex as deviance, or view sexuality and identity as essential and normative rather than as multiple and diverse, or which treat sex as a public health problem.
Through understanding sexualities we can obtain a better understanding of individual and societal health, the diversity of sexualities and the importance of sexual expression on intimacy, relationships, identity, quality of life and health. This provides insights into the sexuality, experiences and rights of groups previously ignored or excluded.
Papers in this special issue of Health Sociology Review* extend this knowledge and offer insights on aspects of sexuality, identity and health across the life span, focusing on diverse populations, groups and sexualities - addressing experiences and rights of groups often ignored in public health policy.
A special issue of Health Sociology Review - indexed in
Thomson ISI Science Citation Index/Social Sciences
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