Peter Aggleton / Richard Parker (eds.)

Culture, Society and Sexuality

A Reader
Herausgeber: Parker, Richard; Aggleton, Peter

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Brings together a selection of readings to provide insights into the social, cultural, political and economic dimensions of sexuality and relationships, and emerging discourses around sexual and reproductive rights. This book is intended for students and researchers in these areas, activists, health workers and service providers.

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Clearly structured and presented, this new and revised edition brings together a broad and international selection of readings to provide insights into the social, cultural, political and economic dimensions of sexuality and relationships.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 512
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Dezember 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 252mm x 180mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 1057g
• ISBN-13: 9780415404556
• ISBN-10: 041540455X
• Artikelnr.: 22256123

Autorenporträt

Richard Parker is Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociomedical Sciences and Director of the Center for Gender, Sexuality and Health in the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University, and Director and President of the Brazilian Interdisciplinary AIDS Association (ABIA) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Peter Aggleton is Professor of Education and Health and holds a UNSW Strategic Chair at the National Centre in HIV Social Research, University of New South Wales, Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction Section 1: Culture, Society and Sexuality Part 1:
Conceptual Frameworks 2. Sexual Matters: On Conceptualizing Sexuality in
History 3. Sexual Scripts 4. Anthropology Rediscovers Sexuality: A
Theoretical Comment Part 2: Gender and Power 5. Gender as a Useful Category
of Historical Analysis 6. 'Gender' for a Marxist Dictionary: The Sexual
Politics of a Word 7. 'That We Should All Turn Queer?': Homosexual Stigma
in the Making of Manhood and the Breaking of a Revolution in Nicaragua
Part 3: From Gender to Sexuality 8. Discourse, Desire and Sexual Deviance:
Some Problems in a History of Homosexuality 9. Thinking Sex: Notes for a
Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality 10. 'The Unclean Motion of the
Generative Parts': Frameworks in Western Thought on Sexuality Part 4:
Sexual Identities/Sexual Communities 11. Compulsory Heterosexuality and
Lesbian Existence 12. The Hijras of India: Cultural and Individual
Dimensions of an Institutionalized Third Gender Role 13. Capitalism and Gay
Identity Section 2: Sexual Meanings, Health, and Rights Part 5: Gender,
Power and Rights 14. Masculinities and Globalization 15. Violence,
Sexuality, and Women's Lives 16. Reproductive and Sexual Rights: A Feminist
Perspective Part 6: Sexual Categories and Classification 17. HIV, Heroin
and Heterosexual Relations 18. An Explosion of Thai Identities: Global
Queering and Re-Imaging Queer Theory 19. Bhai-behen, True Love, Time Pass:
Friendships and Sexual Partnerships among Youth in an Indian Metropolis
Part 7: Sexual Negotiations and Transactions 20. Masculinity and Urban Men:
Perceived Scripts for Courtship, Romantic, and Sexual Interactions with
Women 21. Some Traditional Methods are More Modern than Others: Rhythm,
Withdrawal and the Changing Meanings of Sexual Intimacy in Mexican
Companionate Marriage 22. Mobility, Sexual Networks and Exchange among
Bodabodamen in Southwest Uganda Part 8: Contemporary and Future Challenges
23. Gendered Scripts and the Sexual Scene: Promoting Sexual Subjects among
Brazilian Teenagers 24. HIV and AIDS-related Stigma and Discrimination: A
Conceptual Framework and Implications for Action 25. Bracketing Sexuality:
Human Rights and Sexual Orientation - A Decade of Development and Denial at
the UN

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1. Introduction Section 1: Culture, Society and Sexuality Part 1: Conceptual Frameworks 2. Sexual Matters: On Conceptualizing Sexuality in History 3. Sexual Scripts 4. Anthropology Rediscovers Sexuality: A Theoretical Comment Part 2: Gender and Power 5. Gender as a Useful Category of Historical Analysis 6. 'Gender' for a Marxist Dictionary: The Sexual Politics of a Word 7. 'That We Should All Turn Queer?': Homosexual Stigma in the Making of Manhood and the Breaking of a Revolution in Nicaragua Part 3: From Gender to Sexuality 8. Discourse, Desire and Sexual Deviance: Some Problems in a History of Homosexuality 9. Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality 10. 'The Unclean Motion of the Generative Parts': Frameworks in Western Thought on Sexuality Part 4: Sexual Identities/Sexual Communities 11. Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence 12. The Hijras of India: Cultural and Individual Dimensions of an Institutionalized Third Gender Role 13. Capitalism and Gay Identity Section 2: Sexual Meanings, Health, and Rights Part 5: Gender, Power and Rights 14. Masculinities and Globalization 15. Violence, Sexuality, and Women's Lives 16. Reproductive and Sexual Rights: A Feminist Perspective Part 6: Sexual Categories and Classification 17. HIV, Heroin and Heterosexual Relations 18. An Explosion of Thai Identities: Global Queering and Re-Imaging Queer Theory 19. Bhai-behen, True Love, Time Pass: Friendships and Sexual Partnerships among Youth in an Indian Metropolis Part 7: Sexual Negotiations and Transactions 20. Masculinity and Urban Men: Perceived Scripts for Courtship, Romantic, and Sexual Interactions with Women 21. Some Traditional Methods are More Modern than Others: Rhythm, Withdrawal and the Changing Meanings of Sexual Intimacy in Mexican Companionate Marriage 22. Mobility, Sexual Networks and Exchange among Bodabodamen in Southwest Uganda Part 8: Contemporary and Future Challenges 23. Gendered Scripts and the Sexual Scene: Promoting Sexual Subjects among Brazilian Teenagers 24. HIV and AIDS-related Stigma and Discrimination: A Conceptual Framework and Implications for Action 25. Bracketing Sexuality: Human Rights and Sexual Orientation - A Decade of Development and Denial at the UN