Culture Society and Sexuality

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