Object matters : Condoms, adolescence and time / Nicole Vitellone.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vitellone, Nicole.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Teenagers--Sexual behavior.

Teenagers.

Condoms--Social aspects.

Condoms.

Sex instruction--Social aspects.

Sex instruction.

Safe sex in AIDS prevention.

Sexology--Research.

Sexology.

AIDS (Disease)--Social aspects.

AIDS (Disease).

Sex--Social aspects.

Sex.

Social aspects.

Physical Description:

160 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2008.

Summary:

During the mid-1980s 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 object's 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 and our futures. In her examination of the condom in the late twentieth century, Vitellone critically engages with a range of literatures including those concerned with sexuality, adolescence, methods, gender and the body. This book will be of interest to sex educators and academics as well as undergraduate and postgraduate students working in the areas of Sociology, History, Cultural Studies and Gender Studies.

Contents:

1 AIDS, the condom and the history of heterosexuality: an introduction 1

2 Sex education and the condom 13

3 Condoms and sex research 36

4 Safer sex representations 56

5 AIDS, pornography and the condom 78

6 The condom, gender and sexual difference 96

7 Condoms and consent 118

8 Conclusion: condoms, adolescence and time 136.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780719075681

0719075688

OCLC:

181601626