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Global sex / Dennis Altman.
De Gruyter University of Chicago Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Altman, Dennis, 1943-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sex customs.
- Globalization.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (230 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Global Sex is the first major work to take on the globalization of sexuality, examining the ways in which desire and pleasure-as well as ideas about gender, political power, and public health-are framed, shaped, or commodified by a global economy in which more and more cultures move into ever-closer contact.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface: Sex and Politics
- One. Introduction: Thinking about Sex and Politics
- Two. The Many Faces of Globalization
- Three. Sex and Political Economy
- Four. The (Re)Discovery of Sex
- Five. Imagining AIDS: And the New Surveillance
- Six. The Globalization of Sexual Identities
- Seven. The New Commercialization of Sex: From Forced Prostitution to Cybersex
- Eight. Sexual Politics and International Relations
- Nine. Squaring the Circle: The Battle for "Traditional" Morality
- Ten. Conclusion: A Global Sexual Politics?
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-204) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612538223
- 9780226016047
- 0226016048
- 9781282538221
- 1282538225
- OCLC:
- 609863520
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