Sexual inequalities and social justice / edited by Niels Teunis and Gilbert Herdt ; with a foreword by Richard Parker.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Teunis, Niels.

Herdt, Gilbert H., 1949-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gender.

Sex.

Equality.

Social justice.

Social action.

Ethnicity.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (282 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

This pioneering collection of ten ethnographically rich essays signals the emergence of a new paradigm of social analysis committed to understanding and analyzing social oppression in the context of sexuality and gender. The contributors, an interdisciplinary group of social scientists representing anthropology, sociology, public health, and psychology, illuminate the role of sexuality in producing and reproducing inequality, difference, and structural violence among a range of populations in various geographic, historical, and cultural arenas. In particular, the essays consider racial minorities including Hispanics, Koreans, and African Americans; discuss disabled people; examine issues including substance abuse, sexual coercion, and HIV/AIDS; and delve into other topics including religion and politics. Rather than emphasizing sexuality as an individual trait, the essays view it as a social phenomenon, focusing in particular on cultural meaning and real-world processes of inequality such as racism and homophobia. The authors address the complex and challenging question of how the research under discussion here can make a real contribution to the struggle for social justice.

Contents:

Introduction : the analysis of sexual inequality / Niels Teunis and Gilbert Herdt

Childhood sexual abuse and HIV among Latino gay men : the price of sexual silence during the AIDS epidemic / Sonya Grant Arreola

In our own backyard : HIV/AIDS stigmatization in the Latino gay community / Rafael M. Diaz

Knowing girls : gender and learning in school-based sexuality education / Jessica Fields

Sexual enslavement and reproductive health : narratives of Han among Korean comfort women survivors / Chunghee Sarah Soh

Where does oppression end and pleasure begin? : confronting sexual and gender inequality in HIV prevention work / Hector Carrillo

Circuit culture : ethnographic reflections on inequality, sexuality, and life on the gay party circuit / Christopher Carrington

Confesiones de mujer : the Catholic Church and sacred morality in the sex lives of Mexican immigrant women / Gloria Gonzalez-Lopez

Disability and sexuality : toward a constructionist focus on access and the inclusion of disabled people in the sexual rights movement / Russell P. Shuttleworth

The family-friends of older gay men and lesbians / Brian de Vries and Patrick Hoctel

Sexual inequality, youth empowerment, and the GSA : a community study in California / Gilbert Herdt ... [et al.].

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9786612771996

9780520939141

052093914X

9781282771994

128277199X

9781433701368

1433701367

OCLC:

181845401