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Transgressive sex : subversion and control in erotic encounters / edited by Hastings Donnan and Fiona Magowan.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Fertility, reproduction, and sexuality ; v. 13.
- Fertility, reproduction, and sexuality ; v. 13
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sex customs--Cross-cultural studies.
- Sex customs.
- Sex.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (290 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Berghahn Books, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Sex is often regarded as a dangerous business that must be rigorously controlled, regulated, and subjected to rules. Sexual acts that defy acceptable practices may be seen as variously defiling, immoral, and even unnatural. They may challenge and subvert both cultural preconceptions and the social order in a politics of sexual transgression that threatens to radically transform permissible boundaries and restructure bodily engagements. This collection of essays explores acts of sexual transgression that have the power to reconfigure perceptions of bodily intimacy and the social norms of intera
- Contents:
- Sexual transgression, social order and the self / Hastings Donnan and Fiona Magowan
- Sexually active virgins : negotiating adolescent femininity, colour and safety in Cape Town / Marie Rosenkrantz Lindegaard and Ann-Karina Henriksen
- Summer sex : youth, desire and the carnivalesque at the English seaside / Suzanne Clisby
- A curious threesome : transgression, conservatism and teenage sex in the 'free house' in Northern Ireland / Rosellen Roche
- Zoosex and other relationships with animals / Rebecca Cassidy
- Dancing sexuality in the Cook Islands / Kalissa Alexeyeff
- 'Let them hear us!' : the politics of same-sex transgression in contemporary Poland / Monika Baer
- Taming the bush : morality, AIDS prevention and gay sex in public places / Laurent Gaissad
- Transgression and the making of 'western' sexual sciences / Mark Johnson
- What constitutes transgressive sex? : the case of child prostitution in Thailand / Heather Montgomery
- Courting transgression : customary law and sexual violence in aboriginal Australia / Fiona Magowan
- Managing sexual advances in Vanuatu / Ingvill Kristiansen.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-80758-244-2
- 0-85745-638-5
- 1-282-62750-3
- 9786612627507
- 1-84545-890-7
- OCLC:
- 607676119
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