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| Introduction Embodied Meanings, Carnal Practices |
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| EMBODIMENTS OF HISTORY: LOCAL MEANINGS, GLOBAL ECONOMIES |
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| Part One Moving Borders: Genders, Sexualities, Histories An introduction to the cultural history of gender/sexuality: body politics at the convergence of colonialism, race, and class |
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1 Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power Gender, Race, and Morality in Colonial Asia |
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2 Scientific Racism and the Invention of the Homosexual Body |
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3 White Lies, Black Myths Rape, Race, and the Black "Underclass" |
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| Part Two Modes of Reproduction: Kinship, Parenthood, States Is the family universal? Are mothers invariably nurturing? How kinship, technology, and politics construct pregnancy, parenting, and reproduction |
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4 Is There a Family? New Anthropological Views |
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5 Lifeboat Ethics Mother Love and Child Death in Northeast Brazil |
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6 Population Delusion and Reality |
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7 State Fatherhood The Politics of Nationalism, Sexuality, and Race in Singapore |
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8 Gender in the Post-Socialist Transition The Abortion Debate in Hungary |
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9 Fetal Images The Power of Visual Culture in the Politics of Reproduction |
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| Part Three The Social Construction of Identities: Comparative Sexualities Sexual identities in the context of political economy, kinship systems, family structures, and historical change |
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10 Sex and Society A Research Note from Social History and Anthropology |
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11 Capitalism and Gay Identity |
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12 Transformations of Homosexuality-Based Classifications |
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13 Seed of the Nation Men's Sex and Potency in Mexico |
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| MAKING MARKS AND DRAWING BOUNDARIES: CORPOREAL PRACTICES |
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| Part Four: Bodies of Knowledge and the Politics of Representation How representations of various sorts--scientific, medical, media, and academic--are affected by, and in turn affect, body politics--and what this implies for how we live |
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14 Secrets of God, Nature, and Life |
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15 Orgasm, Generation, and the Politics of Reproductive Biology |
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17 Baboons with Briefcases vs. Langurs with Lipstick Feminism and Functionalism in Primate Studies |
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18 The Violence of Rhetoric On Representation and Gender |
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19 From Nation to Family Containing African AIDS |
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20 The Color of Sex Postwar Photographic Histories of Race and Gender in National Geographic Magazine |
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| Part Five Marks and Signs: The Social Skin Body marks, body meanings: arguments on female circumcision, Victorian clitoridectomy, and plastic surgery |
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21 Womb as Oasis The Symbolic Context of Pharaonic Circumcision in Rural Northern Sudan |
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22 Victorian Clitoridectomy Isaac Baker Brown and His Harmless Operative Procedure |
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23 "Material Girl" The Effacements of Postmodern Culture |
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| Part Six Polyvalent Pleasures: Resistances, Reinscriptions, and Dispersals "Polymorphous perversity" and sexual agency in diverse settings, as public and personal history |
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24 The Carnivalization of the World |
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25 Sisters and Queers The Decentering of Lesbian Feminism |
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26 "Playing with Fire" The Gendered Construction of Chicana/Mexicana Sexuality |
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| APPROPRIATIONS, CONTESTATIONS, AND ADAPTATIONS: TOWARD A HISTORY OF THE PRESENT |
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| Part Seven Sex Wars, Culture Wars Violence Against Women and the Culture Wars |
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27 Violence, Sexuality, and Women's Lives |
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28 Rape and the Inner Lives of Black Women in the Middle West Preliminary Thoughts on the Culture of Dissemblance |
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29 Negotiating Sex and Gender in the Attorney General's Commission on Pornography |
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30 The Neo-Family-Values Campaign |
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| Part Eight Travelling Theory: Transitional and Postcolonial Interlocutions Gender/sexuality in postcolonial and postrevolutionary situations; bodies across and between (rather than simply within) cultures and nations |
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31 The Consumption of Color and the Politics of White Skin in Post-Mao China |
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32 The Enterprise of Empire Race, Class, Gender, and Japanese National Identity |
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33 Movie Stars and Islamic Moralism in Egypt |
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34 Sex Acts and Sovereignty Race and Sexuality in the Construction of the Australian Nation |
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| Part Nine Re-Imagining Bodies How to think the body now. Performativity, "post-fordist" bodies in the age of AIDS, and subversive carnal practices in an unlikely place: Three topically distinct, methodologically juxtaposed yet uncannily consonant pieces on body, identity, and selfhood |
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35 Excerpt from "Introduction" to Bodies That Matter |
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37 Guto's Performance Notes on the Transvestism of Everyday Life |
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