Culture, society and sexuality:a reader

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Bibliographic Details
Group Author: (Richard Guy), 1956-; Aggleton Peter.; Parker Richard G.
Published: Routledge,
Publisher Address: London New York
Publication Dates: 2007.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Edition: 2nd ed.
Series: Sexuality, culture and health
Subjects:
Sex
Carrier Form: xv, 490 p.: ill. ; 26 cm.
ISBN: 0415404568 (pbk.)
9780415404563 (pbk.)
0415368162 (hardback)
9780415368162 (hardback)
Index Number: C913
CLC: C913.14
Call Number: C913.14/C968/2nd.ed.
Contents: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Sexual matters: On conceptualizing sexuality in history -- Sexual scripts -- Anthropology rediscovers sexuality: A theoretical comment -- Gender as a useful category of historical analysis -- 'Gender' for a Marxist dictionary: The sexual politics of a word --'That we should all turn queer?': Homosexual stigma in the making of manhood and the breaking of a revolution in Nicaragua -- Discourse, desire and sexual deviance: Some problems in a history of homosexuality -- Thinking sex: Notes for a radical theory of the politics of sexuality -- 'The unclean motion of the generative parts': Frameworks in Western thought on sexuality -- Compulsory heterosexuality and lesbian existence -- The hijras of India: Cultural and individual dimensions of an institutionalized third gender role -- Capitalism and gay identity -- Masculinities and globalization -- Violence, sexuality, and women's lives -- Reproductive and sexual rights: A feminist perspective -- HIV, heroin and heterosexual relations -- An explosion of Thai identities: Global queering and re-imagining queer theory -- Bhai-behen, true love, time pass: Friendships and sexual partnerships among youth in an Indian metropolis -- Masculinity and urban men: Perceived scripts for courtship, romantic, and sexual interactions with women -- Some traditional methods are more modern than others: Rhythm, withdrawal and the changing meanings of sexual initimacy in Mexican companionate marriage -- Mobility, sexual networks and exchange among bodabodamen in Southwest Uganda -- Gendered scripts and the sexual scene: Promoting sexual subjects among Brazilian teenagers -- HIV- and AIDS-related stigma and discrimination: A conceptual framework and implications for action -- Bracketing sexuality: Human rights and sexual orientation : A decade of development and denial at the UN.