Technologies of Sexuality, Identity and Sexual Health

ISBN-13: 9780415673297 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 256 str.

Lenore Manderson

Opis

Technologies of Sexuality, Identity and Sexual Health highlights the complex ways in which sexuality is expressed and enacted through local ideologies, global identities and material cultures, and their influence on people's sexual health and wellbeing. Its impetus is the renewed interest in technology and the 'social life of things, ' including pharmaceuticals, expanded sexual and related surgery, the growing exploitation of markets for sexual and contraceptive products, and the impact of these on sexual and health practices and outcomes. The book is organised into three parts. The first section on cultural practices consists of four chapters exploring the durability of various traditional practices, products and beliefs about bodies, illustrating how these technologies enable the exercise of power and draw attention to the complex tasks for individuals who may resist, challenge or avoid their imposition.The second part looks at commonalities across cultural borders and gendered identities -- how products and procedures travel, not only in formal economies and through the vectors of globalisation, but also informally, carried by individuals across cultural and social boundaries though sexual, social and commercial interactions. The final part discusses power and cultural norms in relation to contemporary technologies and to modern rights, places and spaces -- with violence highlighted as a technology of control. The volume brings together anthropologists, sociologists and cultural studies scholars, both senior and emerging scholars from around the globe -- and contains ethnographic data from Australia (indigenous and Anglo), Bangladesh, Brazil, France, India, Indonesia, Mozambique and Zambia, Papua New Guinea, Turkey, the United States, and the cyberworld. Offering an important and topical contribution to the developing global literature on sexuality, sexual identity, culture and health, it is of interest to researchers and advanced students in these areas

Spis treści

1.Material Worlds, Sexy Lives: Technologies Of Sexuality, Identity And Sexual Health / Lenore Manderson 2. In Search Of Pleasure And Respect: Biomedical Contraceptive Technologies In Bahia, Brazil / Silvia De Zordo 3. Contraceptive Secrets: Body Battles Among North And West African Migrants In Paris / Carolyn Sargent And Laurence Kotobi 4. The Turn To Female-Controlled Safe Sex Technologies / Anita Hardon 5. The Re/Making Of Men And Penile Modification / Holly Buchanan, Rei Frank, Murray Couch And Angelyn Amos 6. Sex, Pornography And Medicines In The Markets Of Dhaka / Sabina Faiz Rashid, Owasim Akram And Mujibul Anam 7. Diasporic Sexuality: From Condom Ambivalence To ICSI Quests In Lebanon / Marcia Inhorn 8. Gender Disappointment And Cross-Border High Tech Sex Selection: A New Global Sex Trade / Andrea Whittaker 9. Dildos: Passionate Aesthetics And The Plasticity Of Desires / Saskia Wieringa 10. Trans Technologies And Identities In The United States / Ryan Plis And Evelyn Blackwood 11. Paradigm And Power Shifts In The Gender Clinic / Riki Lane

O autorze

Lenore Manderson is an inaugural Australian Research Council Federation Fellow and Professor of Medical Anthropology in the School of Psychology and Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, and the School of Political and Social Inquiry, Faculty of Arts, at Monash University, Australia. She was President of the International Association for the Study of Sexuality, Culture and Society (ISAACS 2001–2003), and is Editor of the international journal Medical Anthropology (2010–present).