Culture, Society and Sexuality: A Reader

by Parker, Richard; Aggleton, Peter

• ISBN13: 9781857288117
• ISBN10: 1857288114
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-05-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Since the beginnings of time, people have been interested in sex - the form it takes, the pleasure it can give, the circumstances in which it occurs, and what it means - both for the individuals concerned and to society more generally. Often seen as a synonym for love, sometimes as an expression of power, and infrequently as a means of exploitation and abuse, sex is a complex and multi-faceted aspect of human behaviour that has been written about by numerous writers and theorists worldwide. This book 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. It will be of use to students of sociology, cultural studies, and health and behavioural studies.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Culture, Society and Sexuality

Conceptual Frameworks

Sexual Matters: On Conceptualizing Sexuality in History

Sexual Scripts

Anthropology Rediscovers Sexuality: A Theoretical Comment

Gender and Power

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

From Gender to Sexuality

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

Sexual Idenities/Sexual Communities

Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence

The Hijras of India: Cultural and Individual Dimensions of an Institutionalized Third Gender Role

Capitalism and Gay Identity

Sexuality, Sexual Meanings and HIV/AIDS

Sexual Classifications

'Within Four Walls': Brazilian Sexual Culture and HIV/AIDS

Silences: 'Hispanics', AIDS, and Sexual Practices

HIV, Heroin and Heterosexual Relations

Sexual Meanings and HIV/AIDS Prevention

Prostitution Viewed Cross-culturally: Toward Recontextualizing Sex Work in AIDS Intervention Research

Sexual Diversity, Cultural Analysis, and AIDS Education in Brazil

Sexuality, Identity and Community: The Experience of MESMAC

Sexual Representations and the Politics of AIDS

AIDS, Homophobia and Biomedical Discourse: An Epidemic of Signification

Inventing 'African AIDS'

Safer Sex as Community Practice

Methodological Approaches

Sexual Culture, HIV Transmission, and AIDS Research

Mapping Terra Incognita: Sex Research for AIDS Prevention - An Urgent Agenda for the 1990s

Feminist Methodology and Young People's Sexuality

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