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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808194303321

Autore

Altman Dennis <1943->

Titolo

Global sex [[electronic resource] /] / Dennis Altman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2001

ISBN

0-226-01604-8

9786612538223

1-282-53822-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (230 p.)

Disciplina

306.7

Soggetti

Sex customs

Globalization

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. 167-204) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface: Sex and Politics -- One. Introduction: Thinking about Sex and Politics -- Two. The Many Faces of Globalization -- Three. Sex and Political Economy -- Four. The (Re)Discovery of Sex -- Five. Imagining AIDS: And the New Surveillance -- Six. The Globalization of Sexual Identities -- Seven. The New Commercialization of Sex: From Forced Prostitution to Cybersex -- Eight. Sexual Politics and International Relations -- Nine. Squaring the Circle: The Battle for "Traditional" Morality -- Ten. Conclusion: A Global Sexual Politics? -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Global Sex is the first major work to take on the globalization of sexuality, examining the ways in which desire and pleasure-as well as ideas about gender, political power, and public health-are framed, shaped, or commodified by a global economy in which more and more cultures move into ever-closer contact.