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9780226016061

Global Sex

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  • ISBN13:

    9780226016061

  • ISBN10:

    0226016064

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2001-04-15
  • Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr

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Summary

Global Sexis the first major work to take on the globalization of sexuality, examining the ways in which desire and pleasureas well as ideas about gender, political power, and public healthare framed, shaped, or commodified by a global economy in which more and more cultures move into ever-closer contact.

Author Biography

Dennis Altman is a professor in the School of Politics, Sociology, and Anthropology at La Trobe University, Australia. He is the author of eight books, including AIDS in the Mind of America and Homosexual: Oppression and Liberation.

Table of Contents

Preface: Sex and Politics ix
Introduction: Thinking about Sex and Politics
1(9)
The Many Faces of Globalization
10(24)
Sex and Political Economy
34(18)
The (Re)Discovery of Sex
52(16)
Imagining AIDS: And the New Surveillance
68(18)
The Globalization of Sexual Identities
86(20)
The New Commercialization of Sex: From Forced Prostitution to Cybersex
106(16)
Sexual Politics and International Relations
122(16)
Squaring the Circle: The Battle for ``Traditional'' Morality
138(19)
Conclusion: A Global Sexual Politics?
157(8)
Acknowledgments 165(2)
Notes 167(38)
Index 205

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