| Edition |
2nd ed. |
| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 490 pages). |
| Series |
Sexuality, culture and health |
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Sexuality, culture and health series.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
Sexual matters: On conceptualizing sexuality in history -- Sexual scripts -- Anthropology rediscovers sexuality: A theoretical comment -- Gender as a useful category of historical analysis -- 'Gender' for a Marxist dictionary: The sexual politics of a word -- 'That we should all turn queer?': Homosexual stigma in the making of manhood and the breaking of a revolution in Nicaragua -- Discourse, desire and sexual deviance: Some problems in a history of homosexuality -- Thinking sex: Notes for a radical theory of the politics of sexuality -- 'The unclean motion of the generative parts': Frameworks in Western thought on sexuality -- Compulsory heterosexuality and lesbian existence -- The hijras of India: Cultural and individual dimensions of an institutionalized third gender role -- Capitalism and gay identity -- Masculinities and globalization -- Violence, sexuality, and women's lives -- Reproductive and sexual rights: A feminist perspective -- HIV, heroin and heterosexual relations -- An explosion of Thai identities: Global queering and re-imagining queer theory -- Bhai-behen, true love, time pass: Friendships and sexual partnerships among youth in an Indian metropolis -- Masculinity and urban men: Perceived scripts for courtship, romantic, and sexual interactions with women -- Some traditional methods are more modern than others: Rhythm, withdrawal and the changing meanings of sexual initimacy in Mexican companionate marriage -- Mobility, sexual networks and exchange among bodabodamen in Southwest Uganda -- Gendered scripts and the sexual scene: Promoting sexual subjects among Brazilian teenagers -- HIV- and AIDS-related stigma and discrimination: A conceptual framework and implications for action -- Bracketing sexuality: Human rights and sexual orientation : A decade of development and denial at the UN. |
| 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. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Local Note |
EBSCOhost SocINDEX with Full Text |
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Sex.
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Sex customs.
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Heterosexuality.
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Homosexuality.
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Sexology.
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AIDS (Disease)
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Human Sexuality.
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SELF-HELP -- Sexual Instruction.
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AIDS (Disease) (OCoLC)fst00793808
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Heterosexuality. (OCoLC)fst00955788
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Homosexuality. (OCoLC)fst00959755
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Sex. (OCoLC)fst01114160
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Sex customs. (OCoLC)fst01114306
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Sexology. (OCoLC)fst01114741
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Sekseverschillen.
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Seksualiteit.
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Sociale aspecten.
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Culturele aspecten.
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Sexualidade.
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Comportamento psicossexual.
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Sex -- history.
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Gender Identity -- history.
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Homosexuality.
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Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome.
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| Added Author |
Parker, Richard G. (Richard Guy), 1956-
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Aggleton, Peter.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Culture, society and sexuality. 2nd ed. London ; New York : Routledge, 2007 0415404568 9780415404563 (DLC) 2006021517 (OCoLC)70230707 |
| ISBN |
9780203966105 (electronic book) |
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0203966104 (electronic book) |
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041540455X (hardback) |
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9780415404556 (hardback) |
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0415404568 (paperback) |
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9780415404563 (paperback) |
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