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Record Nr.

UNISA996215870303316

Titolo

Culture, society and sexuality : a reader / / edited by Richard Parker and Peter Aggleton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : UCL Press, , 1999

ISBN

1-135-36002-2

1-135-36003-0

1-280-40087-0

0-203-02017-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

483 p

Collana

Social aspects of AIDS Culture, society and sexuality

Altri autori (Persone)

ParkerRichard G <1956-> (Richard Guy)

AggletonPeter

Disciplina

306.7

Soggetti

Sex

Sex customs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Sexual matters : on conceptualizing sexuality in history / Robert A. Padgug -- Sexual scripts / William Simon and John H. Gagnon -- Anthropology rediscovers sexuality : a theroetical comment / Carole S. Vance -- 'Gender' for a Marxist dictionary : the sexual politics of a word / Donna J. Haraway -- 'That we should all turn queer?' : homosexual stigma in the making of manhood and the breaking of a revolution in Nicaragua / Roger N. Lancaster -- Discourse, desire and sexual deviance : some problems in a history of homosexuality / Jeffrey Weeks -- Thinking sex : notes for a radical theory of politics of sexuality / Gayle S. Rubin -- 'The unclean motion of the generative parts' : frameworks in western thought on sexuality / Robert W. Connell and Gary W. Dowsett -- Compulsory heterosexuality and lesbian existence / Adrienne Rich -- The hijras of India : cultural and individual dimensions of an institutionalized third gender role / Serena Nanda -- Capitalism and gay identity / John D'Emilio --

'Within four walls' : Brazilian sexual culture and HIV/AIDS / Richard Parker -- Silences : 'Hispanics', AIDS and sexual practices / Ana Maria Alonso and Maria Teresa Koreck -- HIV, Heroin and heterosexual



relations / Stephanie Kane -- Prostitution viewed cross-culturally : toward recontextualizing sex work in AIDS intervention research / Barbara O. de Zalduondo -- Sexual diversity, cultural analysis and AIDS education in Brazil / Richard Parker -- Sexuality, identity and community : the experience of MESMAC / Katie Deverell and Alan Prout -- AIDS, homophobia and biomedical discourse : an epidemic of signification / Paula Treichler -- Inventing 'African AIDS' / Cindy Patton -- Safer sex as community practice / Simon Watney -- Sexual culture, HIV transmission and AIDS research / Richard G. Parker, Gilbert Herdt and Manuel Carballo -- Mapping terra incognita : sex research for AIDS prevention, an urgent agenda for the 1990s / Ralph Bolton -- Feminist methodology and young people's sexuality / Janet Holland. [et al.].

Sommario/riassunto

This work offers an introduction to the central debates in sexuality research. Among the issues examined are the social and cultural dimensions of sex, human sexuality and sex research.