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colleagues and friends,</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-indent:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">This is just an alert that the
paperback version of the book <b><i>Emergent Identities: New Sexualities,
Genders and Relationships in a Digital Era</i></b> is available. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-indent:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><i>Emergent Identities</i> 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.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-indent:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">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. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-indent:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">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.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-indent:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">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. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-indent:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> <a href="https://www.routledge.com/Emergent-Identities-New-Sexualities-Genders-and-Relationships-in-a-Digital/Cover/p/book/9781138098619"><span style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">https://www.routledge.com/Emergent-Identities-New-Sexualities-Genders-and-Relationships-in-a-Digital/Cover/p/book/9781138098619</span></a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-indent:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b>Reviews: </b>"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.” (<i>Sally R. Munt, Director of the Sussex
Centre for Cultural Studies; Professor of Gender Studies and Cultural Studies,
University of Sussex, UK</i>)</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-indent:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> <a href="https://www.routledge.com/Emergent-Identities-New-Sexualities-Genders-and-Relationships-in-a-Digital/Cover/p/book/9781138098619"><span style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">https://www.routledge.com/Emergent-Identities-New-Sexualities-Genders-and-Relationships-in-a-Digital/Cover/p/book/9781138098619</span></a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-indent:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> Apologies for
cross-posts. </p>
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<b>Assoc Professor Rob Cover<br>
</b>Deputy Head of School, Social Sciences<br>
(Community and Engagement)</span></p>
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