Including studies of the sexual self and sexual subjectivities, socio-political processes of normativization, and social structures of sexuality and gender in national and transnational contexts, this book offers a view of sexuality as a broad and complex dimension of historically changing social-cultural and human-material reality.

Introduction Anna G. Jónasdóttir, Valerie Bryson and Kathleen B. Jones Part 1: Sexuality, Love and Social Theory Editors' Introduction: Sexuality, Love and Social Theory 1. Materialist Feminism, the Self and Global Late Modernity: Some Consequences for Intimacy and Sexuality Stevi Jackson 2. Nation, State and Queers: Ethnosexual Identities in the Interface Between Social and Personal in Contemporary Croatia Katja Kahlina 3. What Kind of Power is 'Love Power'? Anna G. Jónasdóttir 4. Sexuality: The Contradictions of Love and Work Valerie Bryson 5. Theorising Sexuality and Power in Caribbean Gender Relations Violet Eudine Barriteau 6. Love Impossible: Troubling Tales of Eroticized Difference in Buenos Aires Maria Törnqvist Part 2: Power and Politics Editors' Introduction: Power and Politics 7. Contract Theory and Global Change: The Intersections of Gender, Race and Class Carole Pateman and Charles W. Mills 8. The Politics of Prostitution Revisited: Trends in Policy and Research Joyce Outshoorn 9. Men, Masculinities and Power in Contemporary China: Reflections on the Phenomenon of Bao Ernai Xingkui Zhang 10. Sexual Politics and Globalization: Triangulation of Relationships Among Taishang Bosses, Bosses' Wives and Chinese Women Bih-Er Chou 11. Notes on Femme-inist Agency Ulrika Dahl 12. 'Why Are You Doing This to Me?' Identity, Power and Sexual Violence in War Cynthia Cockburn Part 3: Contemporary Approaches to Interest, Solidarity and Action Editors' Introduction: Contemporary Approaches to Interest, Solidarity and Action 13. Global/Transnational Gender/Sexual Scenarios Jeff Hearn 14. The Curious Resurrection of First Wave Feminism in the U.S. Elections: An Intersectional Critique of the Rhetoric of Solidarity and Betrayal Kimberlé Crenshaw 15. How is Global Gender Solidarity Possible? Ann Ferguson