Culture, society and sexuality : a reader / Richard Parker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Parker, Richard.

Series:

Social aspects of AIDS.

Social aspects of AIDS Culture, society and sexuality

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex.

Sex customs.

Physical Description:

483 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London; Philadelphia : UCL Press, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.].

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-135-36002-2

1-135-36003-0

1-280-40087-0

0-203-02017-0

9780203020173

OCLC:

299512498