Transgressive Sex

Subversion and Control in Erotic Encounters
Herausgeber: Donnan, Hastings; Magowan, Fiona

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Sex is often regarded as a dangerous business that must be rigorously controlled, regulated, and subjected to rules. Sexual acts that defy acceptable practices may be seen as variously defiling, immoral, and even unnatural. They may challenge and subvert both cultural preconceptions and the social order in a politics of sexual transgression that threatens to transform permissible boundaries and restructure bodily engagements. This collection of essays explores acts of sexual transgression that have the power to reconfigure perceptions of bodily intimacy and the social norms of interaction. Considering issues such as domestic violence, child prostitution, health and sex, teenage sex, and sex with animals across a range of settings from contemporary Oceania, the Pacific, South Africa, and southeast Asia to Euro-America, this book should interest all those who question the "naturalness" of sex, including public health workers, clinical practitioners and students of sex, sexuality, and gender in the humanities and social sciences.

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Produktdetails

• Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural P Nr.13
• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 576g
• ISBN-13: 9781845455392
• ISBN-10: 1845455398
• Artikelnr.: 30191555

Autorenporträt

Hastings Donnan is Professor of Anthropology at Queen's University Belfast.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1. Sexual Transgression, Social Order and the Self
Hastings Donnan and Fiona Magowan, both at Queen's University Belfast
(United Kingdom)
Chapter 2. Sexually Active Virgins: Negotiating Adolescent Femininity,
Colour and Safety in Cape Town
Marie Rosenkrantz Lindegaard and Ann-Karina Henriksen, both at University
of Copenhagen (Denmark)
Chapter 3. Summer Sex: Youth, Desire and the Carnivalesque at the English
Seaside
Suzanne Clisby, University of Hull (United Kingdom)
Chapter 4. A Curious Threesome: Transgression, Conservatism and Teenage Sex
in the 'Free House' in Northern Ireland
Rosellen Roche, Queen's University Belfast (United Kingdom)
Chapter 5. Zoosex and Other Relationships with Animals
Rebecca Cassidy, Goldsmiths College, University of London (United Kingdom)
Chapter 6. Dancing Sexuality in the Cook Islands
Kalissa Alexeyeff, University of Melbourne (Australia)
Chapter 7. 'Let Them Hear Us!' The Politics of Same-sex Transgression in
Contemporary Poland
Monika Baer, Wroclaw University (Poland)
Chapter 8. Taming the Bush: Morality, AIDS Prevention and Gay Sex in Public
Places
Laurent Gaissad, Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium)
Chapter 9. Transgression and the Making of 'Western' Sexual Sciences
Mark Johnson, Researcher
Chapter 10. What Constitutes Transgressive Sex?: The Case of Child
Prostitution in Thailand
Heather Montgomery, Open University (United Kingdom)
Chapter 11. Courting Transgression: Customary Law and Sexual Violence in
Aboriginal Australia
Fiona Magowan, Queen's University Belfast (United Kingdom)
Chapter 12. Managing Sexual Advances in Vanuatu
Ingvill Kristiansen, Harstad University College (Norway)
Notes on Contributors
Index