Sexualities, Ahead of Print. Many of the relationships described in this special issue, put together to honour the work of Ken Plummer, focus on Essex connections, intergenerational friendships, or particular intellectual concerns such as symbolic inte…
Sexualities, Ahead of Print. The sexual agency of young women is constructed within various discourses that articulate multiple and conflicting social imperatives, such that they need to account for their sexual and social vulnerability while expressin…
Sexualities, Ahead of Print. This article explores how life schedules and life courses that are organized chronologically become part of normalized heterosexuality in children’s conversations and play. The analysis draws on ethnographic data from a Swe…
Sexualities, Ahead of Print. Like all scholars, Ken’s work was shaped at the intersection of his personal experiences and the complexities of his historical moment. And in the late 1960s and early 1970s, becoming an “academic homosexual” was no simple …
Sexualities, Ahead of Print. As you get older, a couple of things happen – the probability of your own dying increases, and so too does that of friends. So, recently there have been the deaths of some very good friends and colleagues.
Sexualities, Ahead of Print. Ken Plummer’s career embraced a range of interests, and disparate interventions but is marked by a remarkable consistency, rooted in a profound humanistic understanding of the social world. This is most fully expressed in h…
Sexualities, Ahead of Print. Webcam sex platforms simultaneously host thousands of live performances. To allow users to explore these, platforms categorize. On porn sites, this has led to extremely detailed, hypercategorized classification systems. Dev…
Sexualities, Ahead of Print. The last time I saw Ken Plummer was in Lancaster, England in 2018. He was gently and kindly listening to a younger sociologist talking about trying to do sexualities scholarship in a challenging British university environment.
Sexualities, Ahead of Print. This phenomenological study uses in-depth interviews to explore how six lesbian couples experience the loss of a child in the perinatal period. Our findings revealed the importance of developing queer parenthood through a m…