Global sex /

'Global Sex' is the first major work to take on the globalization of sexuality, examining the ways in which desire and pleasure - as well as ideas about gender, political power, and public health - are framed, shaped, or commodified by a global economy in which more and more cultures move...

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Main Author: Altman, Dennis, 1943-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2001.
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Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9780226016047
0226016048
9780226016061
0226016064
9786612538223
6612538228
1282538225
9781282538221
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: thinking about sex and politics
  • The many faces of globalization
  • Sex and political economy
  • the (re)discovery of sex
  • Imagining AIDS: and the new surveillance
  • The globalization of sexual identities
  • The new commercialization of sex: from forced prostitution to cybersex
  • Sexual politics and international relations
  • Squaring the circle: the battle for "traditional" morality
  • Conclusion: a global sexual politics?