Sex in Development
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Sex in Development

Science, Sexuality, and Morality in Global Perspective

  1. 355 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Sex in Development

Science, Sexuality, and Morality in Global Perspective

About this book

Sex in Development examines how development projects around the world intended to promote population management, disease prevention, and maternal and child health intentionally and unintentionally shape ideas about what constitutes "normal" sexual practices and identities. From sex education in Uganda to aids prevention in India to family planning in Greece, various sites of development work related to sex, sexuality, and reproduction are examined in the rich, ethnographically grounded essays in this volume. These essays demonstrate that ideas related to morality are repeatedly enacted in ostensibly value-neutral efforts to put into practice a "global" agenda reflecting the latest medical science.

Sex in Development combines the cultural analysis of sexuality, critiques of global development, and science and technology studies. Whether considering the resistance encountered by representatives of an American pharmaceutical company attempting to teach Russian doctors a "value free" way to offer patients birth control or the tension between Tibetan Buddhist ideas of fertility and the modernization schemes of the Chinese government, these essays show that attempts to make sex a universal moral object to be managed and controlled leave a host of moral ambiguities in their wake as they are engaged, resisted, and reinvented in different ways throughout the world.

Contributors. Vincanne Adams, Leslie Butt, Lawrence Cohen, Heather Dell, Vinh-Kim Nguyen, Shanti Parikh, Heather Paxson, Stacy Leigh Pigg, Michele Rivkin-Fish

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Information

Publisher
Duke University Press Books
Year
2005
Print ISBN
9780822334910
9780822334798
eBook ISBN
9780822386414
Topic
Psychology
Subtopic
Human Sexuality in Psychology
Index
Psychology

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Stacy Lehigh Pigg and Vincanne Adams: Introduction: The Moral Object of Sex
  4. Stacy Lehigh Pigg: Globalizing the Fact of Life
  5. Part 1: The Prodcution of New Subjectivities
  6. Part 2: The Creation of Normativities as a Biopolitical Project
  7. Part 3: Contestations of Liberal Humanism Forged in Sexual Identity Politics
  8. References
  9. Contributors
  10. Index

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