Book announcement: Emergent Identities: New Sexualities, Genders and Relationships in a Digital Era (paperback)

Dear colleagues and friends,



This is just an alert that the paperback version of the book *Emergent
Identities: New Sexualities, Genders and Relationships in a Digital Era* is
available.



*Emergent Identities* addresses the rise of new gender and sexual identity
categories, such as non-binary gender and polygenderflux, asexual,
sapiosexual and heteroflexible sexualities, and the now (literally!)
hundreds of new gender and sexual identity categories.



It examines what this very recent proliferation of terms means for older,
liberal terms such as lesbian, gay, LGBTQ, and why this new knowledge
framework is quickly displacing a number of gender and sexual norms and
practices, including binary thinking and broad rights-based politics.  Many
of these terms, categories, labels and identities are responses to both old
and new exclusions and felt senses of non-belonging—knowing if they help
address exclusions requires understanding the context of their emergence.



The book also examines the ways in which digital media and social
networking are implicated in the development of new gender/sexuality
expressions, how ideas about ‘choosing’ gender and sexuality return and
some of the ways in which new sexual norms for straight men might stretch
or transform masculine heterosexuality.



May be of interest to scholars, students and practitioners working in any
area of gender, sexuality, LGBTQ studies, queer theory, youth studies,
youth health, and education.




https://www.routledge.com/Emergent-Identities-New-Sexualities-Genders-and-Relationships-in-a-Digital/Cover/p/book/9781138098619



*Reviews:  *"For those interested in emergent genders and sexualities in
the digital age, specifically in how young people creatively orient
themselves in order to confront, politicise, and change heteronormativity,
this study is essential reading.   It presents post-Foucauldian new social
taxonomies of desire.  The book is meticulously researched, clearly
written, and represents best practice in authentic social research,
conducted ‘from the ground up’.  Rob Cover provides us with excellent new
knowledge which . . . is always consistently reflective, original and
ethically sound. If you want to know how to disrupt gender/sexuality norms,
start here.” (*Sally R. Munt, Director of the Sussex Centre for Cultural
Studies; Professor of Gender Studies and Cultural Studies, University of
Sussex, UK*)




https://www.routledge.com/Emergent-Identities-New-Sexualities-Genders-and-Relationships-in-a-Digital/Cover/p/book/9781138098619


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*Assoc Professor Rob Cover*Deputy Head of School, Social Sciences
(Community and Engagement)

The University of Western Australia
Crawley WA 6009

Rm 1.16, Social Sciences Building
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