Cultural Sociology series
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Amin Ghaziani, Sex Cultures
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Paul McLean, Culture in Networks
Frederick F. Wherry, The Culture of Markets
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Copyright © Amin Ghaziani 2017
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First published in 2017 by Polity Press
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ISBN-13: 978-1-5095-1858-6
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Names: Ghaziani, Amin, author.
Title: Sex cultures / Amin Ghaziani.
Description: Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity Press, [2017] | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016038603 (print) | LCCN 2017004430 (ebook) | ISBN 9780745670393 (hardback) | ISBN 9780745670409 (pbk.) | ISBN 9781509518579 (Mobi) | ISBN 9781509518586 (Epub)
Subjects: LCSH: Sex.
Classification: LCC HQ21 .G465 2017 (print) | LCC HQ21 (ebook) | DDC 306.7--dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016038603
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Chapter 1 draws on material previously published in: Ghaziani, Amin (2015) “The Queer Metropolis,” pp. 305–330 in Handbook of the Sociology of Sexualities, ed. J. DeLamater and R. F. Plante. New York: Springer. Reprinted with permission.
Chapter 2 draws on material previously published in: Ghaziani, Amin, Verta Taylor, and Amy Stone (2016) “Cycles of Sameness and Difference in LGBT Social Movements,” Annual Review of Sociology 42: 165–83. Reprinted with permission from the Annual Review of Sociology, Volume 42 © 2016 by Annual Reviews, http://www.annualreviews.org.