Sex in development : science, sexuality, and morality in global perspective / Vincanne Adams and Stacy Leigh Pigg, eds.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Adams, Vincanne, 1959-

Pigg, Stacy Leigh, 1960-

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex--Developing countries.

Sex.

Sex customs--Developing countries.

Sex customs.

Sexual ethics--Developing countries.

Sexual ethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (355 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Ethnographic studies of the role of sexuality and gender in development discourse and policy.

Contents:

Introduction: the moral object of sex / Stacy Leigh Pigg and Vincanne Adams

Globalizing the facts of life / Stacy Leigh Pigg

Moral science and the management of "sexual revolution" in Russia / Michele Rivkin-Fish

Family planning, human nature, and the ethical subject of sex in urban Greece / Heather Paxson

From auntie to diso: the bifurcation of risk and pleasure in sex education in Uganda / Shanti A. Parikh

Sexuality, the state, and the runaway wives of highlands Papua, Indonesia / Leslie Butt

"Ordinary" sex, prostitutes, and middle-class wives: liberalization and national identity in India / Heather S. Dell

Moral orgasm and productive sex: tantrism faces fertility control in Lhasa, Tibet (China) / Vincanne Adams

Uses and pleasures: sexual modernity, HIV/AIDS, and confessional technologies in a West African metropolis / Vinh-Kim Nguyen

The Kothi wars: AIDS, cosmopolitanism and the morality of classification / Lawrence Cohen.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-331) and index.

ISBN:

9786613023971

9781283023979

1283023970

9780822386414

0822386410

OCLC:

220951324