Researching Non-Heterosexual Sexualities

After widespread neglect over many years, the study of human sexuality has recently come to the forefront of many of the most important debates in contemporary society and culture. This book addresses seriously the issue of how to improve the methodological basis of research into non-heterosexual sexualities, exploring the key question of what different methodological and theoretical uses of intersectionality contribute to our understandings of non-heterosexual sexualities. Bringing together research from the UK, USA, Europe and Australasia, this innovative collection rethinks traditional methodologies, creating new epistemologies and applying new approaches, whilst critically examining key issues, including communities, identities, relationships, sexualities, homosexual parenthood, fostering, civil marriage, and politics. As such, it will be of interest to researchers, scholars and students across the social sciences and health professionals.

Constantinos N. Phellas is Vice Rector for Research and Faculty at the University of Nicosia, Cyprus.

Introduction, Constantinos N. Phellas; Chapter 1 An Overview of Developments in Research Methods Applied to Non-Heterosexual Men, Constantinos N. Phellas, Anthony P.M. Coxon; Chapter 2 Researching Religion in LGBTQ Populations, Melissa M. Wilcox; Chapter 3 Researching Bisexuality and Christianity: Locating a Hidden Population and the Use of Reflexivity, Alex Toft; Chapter 4 Visualizing Experience: Using Creative Research Methods with Members of Sexual and Gender Communities, Meg Barker, Christina Richards, Helen Bowes-Catton; Chapter 5 Sexual Diaries: Theory, Method and Application, Anthony P.M. Coxon; Chapter 6 Linking Social Context to Situational Context in the Study of Non-heterosexual Sexual Experience, Miguel Muñoz-Laboy, Richard G. Parker, Patrick A. Wilson; Chapter 7 The Challenges of Quantitative Research in Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Psychology, Ian Rivers; Chapter 8 Depression and Stress, Self-Esteem, and Discrimination in Gay Men Living with HIV: The Case of Cyprus, Constantinos N. Phellas; Chapter 9 Researching (Homo) Sexualities: Working with Military and War Archives, Gabriel Koureas; Chapter 10 1The island remains geographically and ethnically divided and this division often raises the question of which Cyprus is under discussion the North or the South. This question makes Cyprus as political entity a contested site. I see the necessity for being specific and especially because in terms of researching sexuality there are significant steps undertaken on both sides of the island, I want to clarify that by 'Cyprus' I refer to the Republic of Cyprus and its predominantly - but by no means exclusively - Greek Cypriot population., Stavros Stavrou Karayanni; Chapter 11 Non-Indigenous Lesbians and Gay Men Caring for Indigenous Children: An Australian Case Study, Damien W. Riggs; Chapter 12 Sexy Subject, Unflattering Questions: Interviewing Partners about Intimacies and Sex, Anna Einarsdóttir;