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9781845455392

Transgressive Sex

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  • ISBN13:

    9781845455392

  • ISBN10:

    1845455398

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2009-02-01
  • Publisher: Berghahn Books

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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 interaction. Considering issues such as domestic violence, child prostitution, health and sex, teenage sex, and sex with animals across a range of settings from contemporary Oceania, the Pacific, South Africa, and southeast Asia to Euro-America, this book should interest all those who question the naturalness of sex, including public health workers, clinical practitioners and students of sex, sexuality, and gender in the humanities and social sciences.

Author Biography

Hastings Donnan is Professor and Fiona Magowan is Senior Lecturer, both in Anthropology at Queen's University Belfast.

Table of Contents

Sexual Transgression, Social Order and the Self
Sexually Active Virgins: Negotiating Adolescent Femininity, Colour and Safety in Cape Town
Summer Sex: Youth, Desire and the Carnivalesque at the English Seaside
A Curious Threesome: Transgression, Conservatism and Teenage Sex in the 'Free House' in Northern Ireland
Zoo Sex and Other Relationships with Animals
Dancing Sexuality in the Cook Islands
'Let Them Hear Us!' The Politics of Same-sex Transgression in Contemporary Poland
Taming the Bush: Morality, AIDS Prevention and Gay Sex in Public Places
Transgression and the Making the 'Western' Sexual Science
What Constitutes Transgressive Sex?: The Case of Child Prostitution in Thailand
Courting Transgression: Customary Law and Sexual Violence in Aboriginal Australia
Managing Sexual Advances in Vanuatu
Index
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