e-mail:jhgagnon@gmail.com Areas of Interest:Sexuality, AIDS Research, Sociology of the Self, Sociology of Technology,
and Social Theory.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS:
The Social Organization of Sexuality. The University of Chicago, 1994. (co-authored with Edward Laumann,
Robert Michael and Stuart Michaels.
Sex in America. Little Brown, 1994. (Co-authored with Robert Michael, Edward Laumann, and Gina Kolata).
Conceiving Sexuality: Approaches to Sex Research in a Post Modern Era. New York: Routledge, Inc. 1995. (co-edited with Richard Parker).
Encounters with AIDS: The Impact of the HIVAIDS Epidemic on the Gay and Lesbian Communities. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1997. (co-edited with
Martin Levine and Peter Nardi).
An Interpretation of Desire. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. 2004.
Sexual Conduct (a revision of a 1973 volume). Transaction Books. 2005. (co-authored with William Simon).
Sexuality in the Arab World. London. Saqi Press. 2006. (edited with Samir Khalaf).
Les scripts de la sexualite: Essais sur les origines culturelles du desir. Paris: Payot 2008.