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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791944703321

Autore

Vitellone Nicole

Titolo

Object matters [[electronic resource] ] : condoms, adolescence and time / / Nicole Vitellone

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester, U.K., : Manchester University Press

New York, : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2008

ISBN

1-78170-087-7

1-84779-157-3

Edizione

[Online-ausg.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (169 p.)

Collana

EBL-Schweitzer

Disciplina

306.70835

305.235

Soggetti

Teenagers - Sexual behavior

Condoms - Social aspects

Sex instruction - Social aspects

Safe sex in AIDS prevention

Sexology - Research

AIDS (Disease) - Social aspects

Sex - Social aspects

Gender identity

HIV infections

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [140]-156) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 AIDS, the condom and the history of heterosexuality: an introduction; 2 Sex education and the condom; 3 Condoms and sex research; 4 Safer sex representations; 5 AIDS, pornography and the condom; 6 The condom, gender and sexual difference; 7 Condoms and consent; Conclusion: condoms, adolescence and time; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

During the mid 1980's the object of the condom became associated with the prevention of HIV/AIDS. In this book Nicole Vitellone investigates the consequences of this shift in the objects meaning. Focusing on the US, British and Australian contexts Object matters addresses the impact of the discourse of safer sex on our lives and in



particular the lives of adolescents. Addressing AIDS public health campaigns, sex education policies, sex research on adolescence and debates on the eroticisation of safer sex, the author looks at how the condom has affected our awareness of ourselves, of one another.