Cosmopolitan Sexualities: Hope and the Humanist Imagination, by Ken Plummer
A sexology for our age examines a global and multifaceted part of humanity, says Sally R. Munt
A sexology for our age examines a global and multifaceted part of humanity, says Sally R. Munt
Ken Plummer on a lively and provocative run-through of 18 major works by the towering figure of musical theatre
Eminent sociologist Ken Plummer captures 50 tales of a groundbreaking department
Eminent scholar’s new book offers 50 views on a groundbreaking department. Matthew Reisz writes
One of the UK’s best-known feminist academics has died. Mary McIntosh was born in north London on 13 March 1936 and educated at High Wycombe School. After a first degree in philosophy, politics and...
Sociology - Sociology - Introductory Sociology. Fourth edition
A leading sociologist - who analysed everything from class mobility in education to intimacy and infidelity - has died.Dennis Marsden was born in Huddersfield on 25 June 1933, the son of a Methodist...
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewersFred Inglis is emeritus professor of cultural studies, University of Sheffield. He is reading Jeremy Mynott's "new and gripping" book,...
Gayle Rubin is an American feminist anthropologist whose seminal essays The Traffic in Women (1975) and Thinking Sex (1984) changed the way we think about sex and gender. This book brings together a...
Criminology
How to deal with shame? I was a little homosexual "queer boy" in the 1950s and 1960s, and started my coming-out journey in 1966 - to family, friends, colleagues, students and ultimately in the...
UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX. The following readers have been promoted to professorships: Brian Hamnett, department of history; Tim Hatton, economics; Lydia Morris and Ken Plummer, sociology; and Tom Sorell,...
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