Culture, Society and Sexuality : A Reader

ISBN-13: 9780415404556 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 490 str.

Richard Parker; Peter Aggleton

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There has been rapid development within the field of sexuality research in recent years both conceptually and methodologically.
This new and revised edition of "Culture, Society and Sexuality" brings together and makes accessible a broad and international selection of readings to provide insights into the social, cultural, political and economic dimensions of sexuality and relationships, and emerging discourses around sexual and reproductive rights.
Clearly structured and presented, the book makes an extremely useful reference for students and researchers. Section one focuses on the social and cultural construction of sexuality as an emerging field of inquiry over the course of recent decades, and examines some of the most important theoretical insights and areas of investigation that have emerged as this field has developed. Section two links research on the construction of sexuality to a growing body of work on gender and sexuality in relation to a wide range of practical issues and contemporarysocial policy debates.
It is an essential reader not only for students and researchers in these areas, but also for activists, health workers and service providers, who daily confront practical and policy issues related to sexuality, sexual health and sexual rights.

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1. Introduction  Section 1: Culture, Society and Sexuality  Part 1: Conceptual Frameworks  2. Sexual Matters: On Conceptualizing Sexuality in History  3. Sexual Scripts  4. Anthropology Rediscovers Sexuality: A Theoretical Comment  Part 2: Gender and Power  5. Gender as a Useful Category of Historical Analysis  6. ‘Gender’ for a Marxist Dictionary: The Sexual Politics of a Word  7. ‘That We Should All Turn Queer?’: Homosexual Stigma in the Making of Manhood and the Breaking of a Revolution in Nicaragua  Part 3: From Gender to Sexuality  8. Discourse, Desire and Sexual Deviance: Some Problems in a History of Homosexuality  9. Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality  10. ‘The Unclean Motion of the Generative Parts’: Frameworks in Western Thought on Sexuality  Part 4: Sexual Identities/Sexual Communities  11. Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence  12. The Hijras of India: Cultural and Individual Dimensions of an Institutionalized Third Gender Role  13. Capitalism and Gay Identity  Section 2: Sexual Meanings, Health, and Rights  Part 5: Gender, Power and Rights  14. Masculinities and Globalization  15. Violence, Sexuality, and Women’s Lives  16. Reproductive and Sexual Rights: A Feminist Perspective  Part 6: Sexual Categories and Classification  17. HIV, Heroin and Heterosexual Relations  18. An Explosion of Thai Identities: Global Queering and Re-Imaging Queer Theory  19. Bhai-behen, True Love, Time Pass: Friendships and Sexual Partnerships among Youth in an Indian Metropolis  Part 7: Sexual Negotiations and Transactions  20. Masculinity and Urban Men: Perceived Scripts for Courtship, Romantic, and Sexual Interactions with Women  21. Some Traditional Methods are More Modern than Others: Rhythm, Withdrawal and the Changing Meanings of Sexual Intimacy in Mexican Companionate Marriage  22. Mobility, Sexual Networks and Exchange among Bodabodamen in Southwest Uganda  Part 8: Contemporary and Future Challenges  23. Gendered Scripts and the Sexual Scene: Promoting Sexual Subjects among Brazilian Teenagers  24. HIV and AIDS-related Stigma and Discrimination: A Conceptual Framework and Implications for Action  25. Bracketing Sexuality: Human Rights and Sexual Orientation – A Decade of Development and Denial at the UN