Culture, society and sexuality : a reader /

This work offers an introduction to the central debates in sexuality research. Among the issues examined are the social and cultural dimensions of sex, human sexuality and sex research.

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Other Authors: Parker, Richard G. (Richard Guy), 1956- (Editor), Aggleton, Peter (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London : UCL Press, 1999.
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Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:0203020170
9780203020173
9781857288100
1857288106
9781857288117
1857288114
9786610400874
6610400873
1135360022
9781135360023
1135360030
9781135360030
1280400870
9781280400872
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Sexual matters : on conceptualizing sexuality in history / Robert A. Padgug
  • Sexual scripts / William Simon and John H. Gagnon
  • Anthropology rediscovers sexuality : a theroetical comment / Carole S. Vance
  • 'Gender' for a Marxist dictionary : the sexual politics of a word / Donna J. Haraway
  • 'That we should all turn queer?' : homosexual stigma in the making of manhood and the breaking of a revolution in Nicaragua / Roger N. Lancaster
  • Discourse, desire and sexual deviance : some problems in a history of homosexuality / Jeffrey Weeks
  • Thinking sex : notes for a radical theory of politics of sexuality / Gayle S. Rubin
  • 'The unclean motion of the generative parts' : frameworks in western thought on sexuality / Robert W. Connell and Gary W. Dowsett
  • Compulsory heterosexuality and lesbian existence / Adrienne Rich
  • The hijras of India : cultural and individual dimensions of an institutionalized third gender role / Serena Nanda
  • Capitalism and gay identity / John D'Emilio
  • 'Within four walls' : Brazilian sexual culture and HIV/AIDS / Richard Parker
  • Silences : 'Hispanics', AIDS and sexual practices / Ana Maria Alonso and Maria Teresa Koreck
  • HIV, Heroin and heterosexual relations / Stephanie Kane
  • Prostitution viewed cross-culturally : toward recontextualizing sex work in AIDS intervention research / Barbara O. de Zalduondo
  • Sexual diversity, cultural analysis and AIDS education in Brazil / Richard Parker
  • Sexuality, identity and community : the experience of MESMAC / Katie Deverell and Alan Prout
  • AIDS, homophobia and biomedical discourse : an epidemic of signification / Paula Treichler
  • Inventing 'African AIDS' / Cindy Patton
  • Safer sex as community practice / Simon Watney
  • Sexual culture, HIV transmission and AIDS research / Richard G. Parker, Gilbert Herdt and Manuel Carballo
  • Mapping terra incognita : sex research for AIDS prevention, an urgent agenda for the 1990s / Ralph Bolton
  • Feminist methodology and young people's sexuality / Janet Holland [and others].