Vincanne Adams is Professor in the Department of Anthropology, History, and Social Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. She is the author of Doctors for Democracy: Health Professionals in the Nepal Revolution. Stacy Leigh Pigg is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia. She is the editor of the journal Medical Anthropology: Cross-Cultural Studies in Health and Illness.
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: The Moral Object of Sex /Stacy Leigh Pigg and Vincanne Adams
1
Globalizing the Facts of Life / Stacy Leigh Pigg 39
Part 1: The Production of New Subjectivities 67
Moral Science and the Management of "Sexual Revolution" in Russia / Michele
Rivkin-Fish 71
Family Planning, Human Nature, and the Ethical Subject of Sex in Urban
Greece / Heather Paxson 95
From Auntie to Disco: The Bifurcation of Risk and Pleasure in Sex Education
in Uganda / Shanti A. Parikh 125
Part 2: The Creation of Normativities as a Biopolitical Project 159
Sexuality, the State, and the Runaway Wives of Highlands Papua, Indonesia /
Leslie Butt 163
"Ordinary" Sex, Prostitutes, and Middle-Class Wives: Liberalization and
National Identity in India / Heather S. Dell 187
Moral Orgasm and Productive Sex: Tantrism Faces Fertility Control in Lhasa,
Tibet (China) / Vincanne Adams 207
Part 3: Contestations of Liberal Humanism Forged in Sexual Identity
Politics 241
Uses and Pleasures: Sexual Modernity, HIV/AIDS, and Confessional
Technologies in a West African Metropolis / Vinh-Kim Nguyen 245
The Kothi Wars: AIDS Cosmopolitanism and the Morality of Classification /
Lawrence Cohen 269
References 305
Contributors 333
Index 335
