Routledge handbook of sexuality, health and rights / / edited by Peter Aggleton and Richard Parker

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (507 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.7; 306.709
• Soggetto topico: Sex; Sexual health; Human rights; Reproductive rights
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: AggletonPeter ParkerRichard G <1956-> (Richard Guy)
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgements and permissions; 1 Introduction; Part I Pioneering beginnings: The genealogy of the present; 2 Margaret Sanger: Her legacy reconsidered; 3 Anthropological foundations of sexuality, health and rights; 4 The importance of being historical: Understanding the making of sexualities; 5 Research innovation: Alfred C. Kinsey's legacy and the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction; 6 The social reality of sexual rights; 7 Recent developments in US sexuality research ; Part II Language, discourse and sexual categories8 'Lesbians', modernity and global translation: Female sexualities in Indonesia; 9 Hidden love: Sexual ideologies and relationship ideals in rural South Africa; 10 Thai (trans)genders and (homo)sexualities in a global context; 11 Hijras, 'AIDS cosmopolitanism' and questions of izzat in Hyderabad; 12 Intersexuality, biomedical regulation and sexual rights in Brazil; 13 Understanding sex between men in Senegal: Beyond current linguistic and discursive categories; Part III Reproductive and sexual health; 14 Why a history of childhood sexuality? ; 15 From sexology to sexual health16 Sexual and reproductive: Connections and disconnections in public health; 17 Sex as 'risk of conception'?: Sexual frames within the family planning field; 18 Teenage pregnancy: From sex to social pathology; Part IV How to have sex in an epidemic; 19 Knowledge, power and HIV/AIDS: Research and the global response; 20 Safe sex: It's not as simple as ABC; 21 Exporting moralities; 22 'Bareback' - definitions and identity: Constructs' limitation for HIV- prevention research ; 23 Sex under the influence of crystal meth: The experience of Latino gay men in San FranciscoPart V The choreography of sex; 24 Stripping: The embodiment and creation of sexualised fantasy; 25 Flirting, erotic interactions and sexual choreography among urban youth: Hip-hop in New York City; 26 Passionate uprisings: Young people, sexuality and politics in post-revolutionary Iran; 27 Tourism and the body: Embodiment and sexual performance among Dominican male sex workers; 28 Dancing with daemons: Desire and the improvisation of pleasure; 29 Sex in motion: Notes on urban Brazilian sexual scenes ; Part VI The darker side of sex30 Sexual and intimate partner violence: The global picture; 31 The social production of men's extramarital sexual practices; 32 Innocence and scandal: Sexuality and the mass media; 33 Engaged research on incest in Mexico; 34 Brutal logic: Violence, sexuality and macho myth in South African men's prisons and beyond; 35 Beyond pseudo-homosexuality: Corrective rape, transactional sex and the undoing of lesbian identities in Namibia; Part VII From sexual health to sexual rights ; 36 Sexuality education, US federal abstinence policies and young people's right to health information
• Sommario/riassunto: The last two decades have witnessed an explosion of research on sexuality as the social sciences have worked to find new ways of understanding a rapidly changing world. Growing concern for issues such as population, women's and men's reproductive health, and the HIV and AIDS pandemic, has since provided new legitimacy for work on sexuality, health and rights.A detailed and up-to-date reference work, The Handbook of Sexuality, Health and Rights provides an authoritative overview of the main issues in the field today. Leading academics and practitioners are brought together to reflect
• Titolo autorizzato: Routledge handbook of sexuality, health and rights
• ISBN: 1-135-27287-5; 1-135-27288-3; 1-282-50354-5; 1-78034-802-9; 9786612503542; 0-203-86022-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910457353403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge handbooks.