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UNINA9910816481503321 |
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Titolo |
Technologies of sexuality, identity and sexual health / / edited by Lenore Manderson |
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Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2012 |
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ISBN |
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1-280-87396-5 |
9786613715272 |
1-136-32878-5 |
1-136-32877-7 |
0-203-12168-6 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (257 p.) |
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Collana |
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Sexuality, culture and health series |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of figures and tables; List of contributors; Preface; 1 Material worlds, sexy lives: technologies of sexuality, identity and sexual health; 2 In search of pleasure and respect: biomedical contraceptive technologies in Bahia, Brazil; 3 Contraceptive secrets: body battles among North and West African migrants in Paris; 4 The turn to female-controlled safe sex technologies; 5 The re/making of men and penile modification; 6 Sex, pornography and medicines in the markets of Dhaka; 7 Diasporic sexuality: from condom ambivalence to ICSI quests in Lebanon |
8 Gender disappointment and cross-border high-tech sex selection: a new global sex trade9 Dildos: passionate aesthetics and the plasticity of desires; 10 Trans technologies and identities in the United States; 11 Paradigm and power shifts in the gender clinic; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Technologies of Sexuality, Identity and Sexual Health highlights the complex ways in which sexuality is expressed and enacted through local ideologies, global identities and material cultures, and their influence on people's sexual health and well-being. Its impetus is the renewed interest in technology and the 'social life of things,' including |
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pharmaceuticals, expanded sexual and related surgery, the growing exploitation of markets for sexual and contraceptive products, and the impact of these on sexual and health practices and outcomes. Organised loosely into three parts, |
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